Research Summaries

Back Next Generation Earth System Model

Fiscal Year 2020
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Applied Mathematics
Investigator(s) Giraldo, Francis X.
Sponsor California Institute of Technology (Other)
Summary The goal of this project is to develop a new Earth System Model (ESM) for modeling the Earth's climate. Achieving this goal requires a tight collaboration between NPS and CALTECH because the ESM that we propose to develop will be radically different from current models in that the ESM will use (i) massive computations on General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU or GPU for short) and (ii) methods from data assimilation and machine learning to ingest enormous amounts of data from observations and high-resolution simulations nested in the global ESM in order to learn about processes that are not explicitly resolvable in the ESM. This collaboration between NPS and CALTECH will require both institutions to develop new techniques in computational mathematics, atmospheric modeling, data assimilation, machine teaming, and scientific computing. The end result will be an open-source ESM usable by the entire climate modeling community and beyond (e.g., for risk modeling). Much of the development work for the ESM can be leveraged to improve seasonal climate and numerical weather prediction, which may ultimately benefit other models such as the operational Navy weather models (the NPS group works closely with, for example, Naval Research Laboratory Monterey on weather models). CALTECH will benefit from this collaboration by advancing climate science, a mission of the Geophysical and Planetary Science at CALTECH.
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