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Challenges
The key science question gives rise to significant climate and
carbon science challenges that are not addressed by existing
computational research facilities. These research challenges include:
- Implementation of state-of-the-art physical, chemical, biological
and human forcing of climate and the feedback of climate on these
forcings into global numerical models of the climate and carbon system
to fully represent earth systems sciences.
- Achieving increased throughput of climate simulations to produce
suites of climate predictions and develop future climate prediction
at the scale of kilometers.
- Developing simulations of future climate at multiple space and
timescales to meet the analysis needs of national and international
scientific research and assessment groups to understand future impacts
of climate change.
- CCS-CCRI addresses each of these challenges by using advanced
computational science to develop advanced climate models that predict
future climate at spatial and temporal scales of use to diverse
research and assessment communities.
The development of CCS-CCRI recognizes the rich legacy of climate
and carbon research programs that have been carried out during the
past two decades and the operational expertise that has been developed
at the many successful computational research facilities. That
experience points to several roles that CCS-CCRI should fulfill:
- A focused research center
- A research user facility
- A technology-innovation center for the design and deployment
of new computational tools
- A resource center providing advanced computational resources,
telecommunications, visualization tools, and accommodation
arrangements for its users
- A product-distribution center, making the results of its
research available any-time, any-where and any-place
Many computational research facilities exist today and many of
these facilities have some (but not all) of the characteristics of
CCS-CCRI. CCS-CCRI, however, provides an opportunity to integrate
a critical set of characteristics into a single facility to provide
the research community with a capability to develop advanced numerical
climate models.
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