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Computational Earth Sciences

The Computational Earth Sciences group conducts research in computational methods for the prediction of global and regional climate. An emphasis is placed on the atmospheric dynamics and hydrology of earth systems.

Group Projects

  • DOE Biological and Environmental Research Climate Change Prediction Program and the DOE Office of Science SciDAC Program
    • A Scalable and Extensible Earth System Model
    • Earth System Grid
  • DOE Office of Science SciDAC Program
    • Multiscale Subsurface Reactive Flows
    • Performance Engineering for the Next Generation Community Climate System Model
  • NASA Carbon Assimilation for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory
  • USDA Ecosystem Modeling
  • ORNL LDRD - Economic modeling and climate feedbacks
  • LDRD - Assessing Decadal Prediction of the Earth System after major volcanic eruptions

Research Sponsors

  • The current Earth System Modeling projects are sponsored by the DOE Office of Science SciDAC Program. This program is titled Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing, is exploring and developing the third leg of modern science - simulation - as a paradigm complementing experiment and theory. Funding for these projects is primarily for model development and comes from the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Climate Research Division.
  • The application of the models falls into the applied earth sciences area and takes on a variety of forms requiring specialized techniques of data assimilation, and data analysis. Our sponsors for this area are NASA Earth Missions as well as DOE OBER.
  • Mathematical aspects of our modeling work are partially sponsored by the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research
  • Work on GCM Downscaling and Economic Impacts is supported by the ORNL LDRD program.

Publications

SciDAC Projects


Staff

Group Leader: Danny McKenna
Email: mckennads@ornl.gov
Phone: 865-576-0068
Fax: 865-241-3685
Secretary: Anne Calhoun
Email: calhounar@ornl.gov
Phone: 865-574-3125
Fax: 865-576-5491

Extended Staff (University of Tennessee at Knoxville)

  • Joshua Fu (UTK Civil and Environmental Engineering, jsfu@utk.edu) -
    Dynamic Downscaling for Climate Impacts on Air Quality and Hydrology
  • Glenn Tootle (UTK Civil and Environmental Engineering, gtootle@utk.edu)
    - Climate Impacts on Water Management, Paleo-climate reconstructions

Posters

Presentations

Computer Science & Engineering
- Performace
  Patrick H. Worley Performance Engineering Research Institute (PERI)
Patrick H. Worley Performance Evaluation & Analysis Consortium (PEAC) End Station
Leadership Science
- Climate
  John B. Drake The SciDAC CCSM Consortium Project
Lawrence Buja, James B.White III (Trey) LCF Climate Science Computational End Station
Forrest M. Hoffman Global Coupled Climate and Carbon Cycle Modeling
Richard Mills SciDAC-2 project: Modeling Multiscale-Multiphase-Multicomponent Subsurface Reactive Flows Using Advance Computing/

 

Links

The Computational Earth Sciences Group meets every Tuesday morning at 9am.

 

 
   CSM Projects   
   Advanced Simulation Capability for Environmental Management (ASCEM)   
   The Center for Simulation of RF Wave Interactions with Magnetohydrodynamics (SWIM)   
   Coordinated Infrastructure for Fault Tolerant Systems (CIFTS)   
   Hybrid Multi-Core Consortium   
   Integral Equation Technology   
   MADNESS (Multiresolution Adaptive Numerical Environment for Scientific Simulation)   
   NEAMS Integrated Computational Environment (NiCE)   
   Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS)   
   Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) for Petascale High-End Computing and Beyond   
  INCITE Allocated Projects  
   Advanced Simulations of Plasma Microturbulence at the Petascale and Beyond   
   Cellulosic Ethanol: Simulation of Multicomponent Biomass System   
   Climate-Science Computational Development Team: The Climate End Station II   
   High-Fidelity Simulations for Advanced Engine Combustion Research   
   High Fidelity Tokamak Edge Simulation for Efficient Confinement of Fusion Plasma   
   Investigation of Multi-Scale Transport Physics of Fusion Experiments Using Global Gyrokinetic Turbulence Simulations   
   Magnetic Structure and Thermodynamics of Low Dimensional Magnetic Structures   
   Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions   
   Performance Evaluation and Analysis Consortium End Station   
   Petascale Modeling of Chemical Catalysts and Interfaces   
   Three Dimensional Simulations for Core Collapse Supernovae   
   Ultrascale Simulation of Basin-Scale CO2 Sequestration in Deep Geologic Formations and Radionuclide Migration using PFLOTRAN   
   Uncertainty Quantification for Three-Dimensional Reactor Assembly Simulations   
   Understanding the Ultimate Battery Chemistry: Rechargeable Lithium/Air   
   
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