Projects: Earth Science

ALCF projects cover many scientific disciplines, ranging from biology and physics to materials science and energy technologies. Filter ongoing and past projects by allocation program, scientific domain, and year.

Award ALCC
Domain Earth Science
Hours 74 Million Core-Hours

Large-Eddy Simulation Component of the Mesoscale Convective System Climate Model Development and Validation (CMDV-MCS) Project

PI William Gustafson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Award ALCC
Domain Earth Science
Hours 25 Million Core-Hours

Understanding the Role of Ice Shelf-Ocean Interactions in a Changing Global Climate

PI Mark Petersen, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 45 Million Core-Hours

Quantification of Uncertainty in Seismic Hazard Using Physics-Based Simulations

PI Thomas Jordan, University of Southern California

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 128 Million Core-Hours

Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy

PI Mark Taylor, Sandia National Laboratories

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 215 million Core-Hours

High-Resolution Climate Change Simulations with the CESM

PI Gerald Meehl, NCAR
CESM simulation

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 260 million Core-Hours

Frontiers in Planetary and Stellar Magnetism through High-Performance Computing

PI Jonathan Aurnou, University of California, Los Angeles

Award ALCC
Domain Earth Science
Hours 158 Million Core-Hours

Delivering the Department of Energy's Next-­Generation High-Resolution Earth System Model

PI Peter Thornton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 90 Million Core-Hours

High Frequency Ground Motion Simulation for Seismic Hazard Analysis

PI Thomas Jordan, University of Southern California
Ground motion simulations reveal regions at risk of strong shaking during a possible magnitude-8 earthquake on the San Andreas fault

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours

Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy

PI Mark Taylor, Sandia National Laboratories
a Category 5 hurricane simulated by the CESM at 13 km resolution

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 150 Core-Hours

Frontiers in Planetary and Stellar Magnetism Through High-Performance Computing

PI Jonathan Aurnou, University California, Los Angeles
3D visualization of convective cells at the outer boundary of a solar convection simulation run, using Mira

Award ALCC
Domain Earth Science
Hours 15 Million Core-Hours

Validation of RAP/HRRR for the Wind Forecast Improvement Project II

PI Joe Olson, NOAA

Award ALCC
Domain Earth Science
Hours 110 Million Core-Hours

Delivering the Department of Energy’s next-generation high resolution Earth system model

PI Peter Thornton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 140 Million Core-Hours

Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy

PI Mark Taylor, Sandia National Laboratory
a Category 5 hurricane simulated by the CESM at 13 km resolution

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 200 Million Core-Hours

CESM Century-Scale Climate Experiments with a High-Resolution Atmosphere

PI Warren Washington, UCAR
present day simulation with a 1/4 degree horizontal resolution atmosphere version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM)

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 83 Million Core-Hours

Frontiers in Planetary and Stellar Magnetism through High-Performance Computing

PI Jonathan Aurnou, University of California, Los Angeles
image is a schematic of Earth interior and some magnetic field lines from a model

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 48 Million Core-Hours

High Frequency Ground Motion Simulation for Seismic Hazard Analysis

PI Thomas Jordan, Southern California Earthquake Center
Ground motion simulations reveal regions at risk of strong shaking during a possible magnitude-8 earthquake on the San Andreas fault

Award ALCC
Domain Earth Science
Hours 107 Million Core-Hours

Delivering the Department of Energy's Next‐Generation High‐Resolution Earth System Model

PI Peter Thornton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 80 Million Core-Hours

Chombo-Crunch: Modeling Pore-Scale Reactive Transport in Carbon Sequestration

PI David Trebotich, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Transient pH on calcite grains in capillary tube experiment. 1 billion grid points computed on 48K cores. 1 micron resolution.

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 102.8 Million Core-Hours

CESM Century-Scale Climate Experiments with a High-Resolution Atmosphere

PI Warren Washington, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
A portion of the 1/4 degree grid global grid is shown over the southeast part of the United States.

Award INCITE
Domain Earth Science
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours

High-Resolution Simulation for Climate Means, Variability, and Extreme

PI Mark Taylor, Sandia National Laboratories
A plot of precipitable water (gray scale) and precipitation rate (colors) in a simulation of the Earth's atmosphere.