March 2022
Pi in the sky
A Pi Day celebration of the pi-dependent algorithm and the computational science pioneer who transformed climate modeling.
Category Archives: Climate
September 2021
Tracking the big melt
Los Alamos and Oak Ridge scientists lead a DOE supercomputing effort to model the complex interactions affecting climate change in Arctic coastal regions.
November 2020
Climate on a new scale
DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model will harness the next level of supercomputer to explore big climate questions.
April 2020
Soil sifters
Algorithms and supercomputers help tease out how soil microbes affect global climate.
February 2015
Weather extremists
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory modelers turn to extreme-scale computing to simulate climate and weather extremes like the ‘Pineapple Express’ that drenched the West Coast this winter.
November 2014
Chilly models
Project aims to improve ocean modeling.
January 2013
Extreme climate
As climate changes, so must the tools to model it.
September 2012
Sphere of influence
Los Alamos researchers have re-partitioned our planetary sphere to focus on regions of particular interest in global climate models.
June 2012
Storm tracking
Graph theory reveals hidden links that could greatly improve scientists’ predictions of hurricane activity.
January 2012
Corralling carbon dioxide
Supercomputers are speeding new-materials designs that sponge up carbon dioxide and helping assemble systems for large-scale carbon capture.