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• Collaborative Design and Development of the CCSM for Terascale Computers - R. Malone (LANL), J. B. Drake (ORNL) - OBER funded: Modular packages that comprehensively treat physical and chemical processes important to the climate system.
  • September 2003 progress report (pdf)
  
  
• ACPI Dynamical Downscaling - L. R. Leung (PNNL), D. W. Pierce (UCSD), R. X. Bian (PNNL) - DOE/OBER funded: Dynamical downscaling of climate scenarios produced by the NCAR/DOE PCM.
  
  
• ACPI Avant Garde - High Performance Atmospheric Model Project - D. Williamson (NCAR), J. B. Drake (ORNL), P. H. Worley (ORNL), E. B. Kluzek (UCAR) - DOE/NSF funded: Software design and engineering required for a performance portable, modular CSM.
  
  
• Climate Change Simulations - W. M. Washington (NCAR), T. W. Bettge (UCAR), A. Middleton (UCAR), W. G. Strand (UCAR), S. J. Thomas (UCAR), M. K. Tyree (UCSD)- DOE/OBER funded: Several century-long production climate simulations with the PCM.
  
  
• Conveyor Belt Circulation in World Oceans - B. T. Nadiga (LANL) - DOE/OBER funded: Understand the thermohaline (conveyor belt) circulation in the world ocean.
  
  
• Parallel Algorithms and Numerical Methods for Climate Modeling - J. B. Drake (ORNL), V. Wayland (UCAR), P. H. Worley, D. Guo (ORNL) - DOE/OBER funded: Develop parallel spectral algorithms, semi-Lagrangian methods, and dynamical cores of climate models as possible components of next generation coupled climate models.
  
  
• PCM Ensemble Calculations and Processing - J. M. Arblaster (UCAR), A. Craig (UCAR) - DOE/OBER funded: Project in collaboration with NCAR, experiments with PCM to explore possible future climates using multiple 150 year simulations.
  
  
• Performance Tuning of the POP Ocean Model - P. W. Jones (LANL) - DOE/OBER funded: Test hybrid, open MP/MPI formulations for POP, the ocean component of the DOE PCM and the CCSM.
  
  
• Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Modeling - W. M. Post (ORNL), A. W. King (ORNL), S. D. Wullschleger (ORNL), M. L. Tharp (ORNL) - DOE/OBER funded: Evaluate terrestrial carbon processes in the past/future evolution of the global carbon cycle and for carbon sequestration analysis.
  
  
• Climate Data Assimilation - J. Potter (LLNL/PCMDI) - DOE/OBER funded: Use data assimilation techniques with climate models to determine parameter ranges in physical parameterizations.
  
  
• CCSM Control Simulations - A. Craig (UCAR) - NSF/DOE funded: To test configurations of the coupled model over the historical period and document the climate produced by the model. These simulations provide the basis for evaluation of model changes.
  
  
• High Resolution CCSM Development - J. Truesdal (NCAR) - NSF/DOE funded: validata and tune parameters of the T85, 26 level atmospheric component of CCSM.
  
  
• Modeling the Effects of Meteorological Variability on Atmospheric Carbon Species Distributions Using the Goddard Data Assimilation System - R. Kawa (NASA), D. Erickson (ORNL) - NASA funded: Numerical modeling effort to include CO2 transport in NASA Goddard Data Assimilation System.