Climate scientists are striving to discover exactly how human behavior is changing the earth’s climate and the steps we need to take now to secure the environment for our children’s children. To meet this challenge, they must be able to predict the behavior of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emitted from cars, factories, and other sources to the earth’s forests, oceans, and atmosphere. Armed with this knowledge, researchers will be a step closer to anticipating our changing climate and telling us what regions are likely to be wetter or drier, hotter or colder.
The task requires leadership computing. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers use the world’s most powerful computer to advance the boundaries of the international Community Climate System Model to simulate the behavior of the world’s oceans and atmosphere, and to model abrupt climate change. Their results will help us understand what we need to do to keep the earth a nurturing and hospitable place.
Current Active Earth Science Projects
Earth Science
Global Adjoint Tomography
Current PI: Jeroen Tromp, Princeton University
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 80,000,000
Earth Science
Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy
Current PI: Mark Taylor, Sandia National Laboratories
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 90,000,000
Earth Science
Advancing Models for Multiphase Flow and Transport in Porous Medium Systems
Current PI: James McClure, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 100,000,000
Earth Science
Quantification of Uncertainty in Seismic Hazard using Physics-based Simulations
Current PI: Thomas Jordan, University of Southern California
Allocation Source: INCITE
Allocation Hours: 100,000,000
Earth Science
Understanding the Role of Ice shelf-Ocean Interactions in a Changing Global Climate
Current PI: Mark Petersen, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Allocation Source: ALCC
Allocation Hours: 2,000,000
Earth Science
Accelerated Global Human Settlement Discovery
Current PI: Jibonananda Sanyal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Allocation Source: ALCC
Allocation Hours: 2,000,000
Earth Science
Multi-scale Water Cycle Processes in Climate Change: Sensitivity to Modeling Frameworks
Current PI: Lai-yung Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Allocation Source: ALCC
Allocation Hours: 2,000,000