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Emerging Research Opportunities at the Climate Modeling Laboratory NC State University (Presentation at NIA Meeting: 9/04/03). Fredrick H. M. Semazzi North Carolina State University Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences & Department of Mathematics.
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Emerging Research Opportunities at the Climate Modeling LaboratoryNC State University(Presentation at NIA Meeting: 9/04/03) Fredrick H. M. Semazzi North Carolina State University Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences & Department of Mathematics
Emerging Research Opportunities at the Climate Modeling LaboratoryNC State University For Details http://climlab4.meas.ncsu.edu
MAIN AREAS OF EMERGING RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES • High Resolution Nested Regional Climate Prediction Models • High Resolution Global Atmospheric Prediction Models
OND ACTUAL RAINFALL (MM/DAY) 1970-95 AVERAGE PERFORMANCE IN AN SIMULATING CLIMATOLOGY (IRI) 1970-1995 AVERAGE • Observations • ENCHAM GCM • RCM-Low Resolution Model • RCM-High Resolution Model Comparison of models performance
Optimization of Regional Numerical Models Based on Useable Prediction Skill
USER SECTOR CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS PREDICTION MODEL Define (E) Identity C & L Observe E Compute Set Parameters Forecast E Region 1 observed Fst No Yes No Yes Parameter update and optimization Region 2 Region 9 ROC Climatology Prediction Model H Perfect Prediction Model F See fig.3 Fig.2: Algorithm for computation of forecast value (V) & optimization
Global Atmospheric Model==================Variable ResolutionNonhydrostaticGlobalSemi-implicitSemi-Lagrangian
Global Variable Resolution Grid • No lateral boundary conditions • Multiple scales • Single code for multiple problems • Flexible (easy to customize for different regions) • Simplifies maintenance and optimization with only one code
Nonhydrostatic Dymanics • Increasing resolutions of atmospheric models • Little additional computational cost • Some atmospheric phenomena are nonhydrostatic (e.g. tropical cyclones)
Day 2 - 500 hPa Bates NASA GODDARD GCM Bates et al (1993) NC STATE UNIVERSITY GCM Semazzi et al (2003)
Hydrostatic Non-Hydrostatic 400 m resolution-courant#=3
Non-Hydrostatic Hydrostatic 2 km resolution
Future Work • Optimization of Regional Numerical Models Based on Useable Prediction Skill • Efficiency improvements to semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian (SISL) numerical scheme: solver, interpolation • Physical parameterization: heating, friction, convection, moisture, etc. • Parallel version in collaboration with NASA and other organizations …