WRF-Fire: East Troublesome Wildfire from Granby, CO

On October 14, 2020, the East Troublesome Wildfire ignited. It burnt 193,812 acres over the course of 48 days. Between October 20-23 the wildfire rapidly intensified, exploding from 18,550 acres to 187,964 acres in size.* These visualizations show a Weather Research & Forecasting (WRF) simulation of the East Troublesome Wildfire from the perspective of Granby,…

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Impact of the Asian Summer Monsoon on the Composition of the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere

CO gas cloud over Asia

This visualization depicts carbon monoxide (CO) concentration over Asian. The data were generated from a simulation of 2021. The visualization coincides with the upcoming (July – August 2022) Asian Summer Monsoon Chemical and Climate Impact Project (ACCLIP). The scientists will fly from Osan, South Korea, over eastern Asia and the Pacific to gather similar data…

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Leveraging Variable Resolution Capabilities in the Community Earth System Model (CESM) – Greenland

The System for Integrated Modeling of the Atmosphere (SIMA) has rolled out two new variable-resolution configurations with regional refinement over the Arctic and Greenland*. This is a 3D visualization of a simulation using the Greenland grid, which refines the big ice sheet with 1/8˚ grid resolution. The visualization shows that storms traverse the refinement region…

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F5 Tornado in CM1

A simulation of an F5 tornado produced by Cloud Model 1 (CM1). Movies   Quicktime Movie File (1920×1080, 2.57 GB) Images Science and Visualization Credits Leigh Orf, University of Wisconsin Madison. Model CM1. Visualization Software VAPOR

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Wind Speed

This visualization shows the magnitude of the wind speed over the course of one year from atmosphere-only simulations of the high resolution (horizontal 1/4 degree) Community Earth System Model simulating the present day climate.   Movies Movie File (.mp4, 1920×1080, 588MB) Images Science Credits Susan Bates and Nan Rosenbloom Computational Resources This research used resources…

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Wind Turbine Performance

Wind Turbine Simulation And Its Animation: Computational Study of Wind Turbine Performance And Loading Response to Turbulent Atmospheric Inflow Conditions Movies Movie File (1920×1080, MP4, 362MB) Images Developers: University of Wyoming: Dimitri Mavriplis Michael Stoellinger Michael Brazell Andrew Kirby Zhi Yang Parallel Geometric Algorithms, LLC.: Jay Sitaraman Visualization and Meshing Support: Intelligent Light: Earl Duque…

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NCAR’s Wind Forecast Improvement Project 2

By the end of 2016, the state of Oregon had an installed wind generating power capacity of over 3 Gigawatts. Wind power, while clean and renewable, requires constant load balancing due to variable weather conditions. These conditions must be met with state of the art forecasting methods in order to maximize load balancing efficiency. New…

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