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Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Paidemwoyo Munhutu
CScADS 2010 Salt Lake City, UT
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GFDL/NOAA OVERVIEW
• GFDL’s Mission• Production of timely and reliable knowledge
and assessments on natural climate variability, anthropogenic changes and earth system model development.
• NOAA Mission• Understand and predict changes in Earth’s
environment and conserve and manage coastal and marine resources to meet our Nation’s economic, social, and environmental needs.
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The Challenge
• The Why:
• Understanding & Prediction
• Water Resource Management &Agriculture
• Urban Planning & Transportation, etc
• The How:
• Climate Modeling & Simulation
• HPCS Infrastructure
• Dedicated Scientists and supporting staff
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Data Needs: Grid Issues
• Different Grids, Different Analysis, how do we compare?
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Data Needs: Facilitating Collaborations
• IPCC
• CMIP5
• PCMDI✤ NCAR✤ NASA✤ PMEL✤ GFDL
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Data Needs: Facilitating Collaborations
• IPCC
• CMIP5
• PCMDI✤ NCAR✤ NASA✤ PMEL✤ GFDL
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Data Needs: Facilitating Collaborations
• IPCC
• CMIP5
• PCMDI✤ NCAR✤ NASA✤ PMEL✤ GFDL
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Data Needs: Facilitating Collaborations
• IPCC
• CMIP5
• PCMDI✤ NCAR✤ NASA✤ PMEL✤ GFDL
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Data Needs: Facilitating Collaborations
• IPCC
• CMIP5
• PCMDI✤ NCAR✤ NASA✤ PMEL✤ GFDL
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Data Needs: Higher Resolution Models
Image courtesy of Isaac Held GFDL.
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Visualization Needs: Importance
• Quick incisive summary
• Easier Comprehension
• Impact
• Immediate Pattern Recognition
• Time varying phenomena understood
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Visualization Needs: Dynamics
• More versatile viz tools (file types and size, grid spec, etc)
• Easier intuitive interfaces (gui)
• Journal standard output (fonts and formats)
• Interactive tools
• Better rendering quality and speed
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Visualization Examples
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Visualization Examples
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Visualization Examples
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Summary
• Climate Research is essential to human development.
• Data analysis and Visualizations will continue to remain pivotal in Climate Research.
• Analytical tools will have to continue evolve with changes in Data, Format or Computing Standards.
• Analytic tools that boast capabilities of working in Distributed Parallel Environments will do well.
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Questions
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