Earth  ID: 30017

GEOS-5 Nature Run Collection

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Through numerical experiments that simulate the dynamical and physical processes governing weather and climate variability of Earth's atmosphere, models create a dynamic portrait of our planet. This 10-kilometer global mesoscale simulation (Nature Run) using the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System Model (GEOS-5) explores the evolution of surface temperatures as the sun heats the Earth and fuels cloud formation in the tropics and along baroclinic zones; the presence of water vapor and precipitation within these global weather patterns; the dispersion of global aerosols from dust, biomass burning, fossil fuel emissions, and volcanoes; and the winds that transport these aerosols from the surface to upper-levels.

The full GEOS-5 simulation covered 2 years—from May 2005 to May 2007. It ran on 3,750 processors of the Discover supercomputer at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation, consuming 3 million processor hours and producing over 400 terabytes of data.

GEOS-5 development is funded by NASA's Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction Program.

 

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http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/research/aerosol/

http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/research/aerosol/modeling/nr1_movie/

http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5

http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5/

http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/research/aerosol

http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/research/aerosol/modeling/nr1_movie/

http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5/

http://www.nccs.nasa.gov/discover_front.html


Credits

William Putman (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
William Putman (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Model data processing provided by Discover supercomputer, NASA Center for Climate Simulation

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Mission:
Terra

Data Used:
Goddard Chemistry Aerosol and Transport (GOCART) also referred to as: GOCART
Model - NASA/GSFC - 08/17/2006 04/10/2007
GEOS-5 Atmospheric Model on the Cubed-Sphere also referred to as: GEOS-5 Cubed-Sphere
Model - NASA GMAO - 05/01/2005 04/30/2007
The model is the GEOS-5 atmospheric model on the cubed-sphere, run at 14-km global resolution for 30-days. GEOS-5 is described here http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/systems/geos5/ and the cubed-sphere work is described here http://sivo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cubedsphere_overview.html.
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