Articles tagged with: Climate

[ Feb 8 2013 - 6:39 pm ]

A team of researchers ran transient, or continuous, simulations on an ORNL supercomputer over three years to create the first physics-based test of hemispheric deglaciation, work that was recently featured in Nature.

[ Jan 24 2013 - 7:50 pm ]

Researchers led by Gerald Meehl of the National Center for Atmospheric Research used ORNL’s Jaguar supercomputer to explore just how much sea level is likely to rise and under what circumstances.

[ Nov 16 2012 - 4:31 pm ]

An OLCF industrial partner was recently named a winner of International Data Corporation’s (IDC) HPC Innovation Excellence Award, announced in Salt Lake City, Utah at the annual supercomputing conference SC12.

[ Oct 18 2012 - 12:50 pm ]

ORNL’s James Hack was a member of a 15 person committee that recommended ways to advance climate modeling over the next two years.

[ Sep 17 2012 - 10:08 am ]

HPCwire sat down with Galen Shipman to discuss strategies for coping with the “3 Vs”—variety, velocity, and volume—of the big data that climate science generates.

[ Apr 4 2012 - 2:32 pm ]

A multi-institutional team used a global dataset of paleoclimate records and the Jaguar supercomputer at ORNL to find the perform an unprecedented climate simulation. The results, published in the April 5 issue of Nature, analyze 15,000 years of climate history.

[ Feb 27 2012 - 3:28 pm ]

Researchers at ORNL are sharing computational resources and expertise to improve the detail and performance of a scientific application code that is the product of one of the world’s largest collaborations of climate researchers.

[ Jul 16 2009 - 5:12 pm ]

At the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the world’s fastest supercomputer for unclassified research is simulating abrupt climate change and shedding light on an enigmatic period of natural global warming in Earth’s relatively recent history.