Towards ultra-high resolution models of climate and weather

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 149-165

  Wehner, Michael ^a   Oliker, Leonid ^a   Shalf, John ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric general circulation model; Climate model; Embedded processor; Finite volume model; Global warming; Petascale simulation; Power efficient computing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; EXTRAPOLATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PETASCALE SIMULATION; POWER EFFICIENT COMPUTING;

GLOBAL WARMING;

EID: 42449101808     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: 17412846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342007085023     Document Type: Article

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