CCM3 T170 Cloud and Precipitation Simulation

This is comparable to examining the solution as would be done in a global weather model. This simulation was conducted in connection with a collaborative scientific investigation of high-resolution global climate modeling. This project involved scientists and software engineers at both the National Center for Atmospheric Research and at the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI) in Japan.

Portions of the simulations required to produce this animation were conducted on a 128-processor SGI Origin 2000 computer system located at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and on an 8-processor NEC SX4 computer system in Tokyo. Because of the large computational demands, global climate models are typically run at a horizontal resolution that is four times courser than for the present study. The simulation used for the current animation nominally resolves features as small as 75 kilometers and is about 60 times more expensive than a typical climate model because of the increase in horizontal resolution.