The digital revolution of Earth-system science

P Bauer, PD Dueben, T Hoefler, T Quintino… - Nature Computational …, 2021 - nature.com
Computational science is crucial for delivering reliable weather and climate predictions.
However, despite decades of high-performance computing experience, there is serious …

The landscape of exascale research: A data-driven literature analysis

S Heldens, P Hijma, BV Werkhoven… - ACM Computing …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The next generation of supercomputers will break the exascale barrier. Soon we will have
systems capable of at least one quintillion (billion billion) floating-point operations per …

Identifying user needs for weather and climate services to enhance resilience to climate shocks in sub-Saharan Africa

E Nkiaka, A Taylor, AJ Dougill… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The vulnerability of social-ecological systems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to climate
variability and change means that there is an urgent need to better integrate weather and …

Coupled data assimilation at ECMWF: Current status, challenges and future developments

P de Rosnay, P Browne, E de Boisséson… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents coupled data assimilation (DA) activities at the European Centre for
Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). Coupled DA is an essential component of the …

Confronting grand challenges in environmental fluid mechanics

T Dauxois, T Peacock, P Bauer, CP Caulfield… - Physical review fluids, 2021 - APS
Environmental fluid mechanics underlies a wealth of natural, industrial, and, by extension,
societal challenges. In the coming decades, as we strive towards a more sustainable planet …

FVM 1.0: a nonhydrostatic finite-volume dynamical core for the IFS

C Kühnlein, W Deconinck, R Klein… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
We present a nonhydrostatic finite-volume global atmospheric model formulation for
numerical weather prediction with the Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) at ECMWF and …

LFRic: Meeting the challenges of scalability and performance portability in Weather and Climate models

SV Adams, RW Ford, M Hambley, JM Hobson… - Journal of Parallel and …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper describes LFRic: the new weather and climate modelling system being
developed by the UK Met Office to replace the existing Unified Model in preparation for …

[HTML][HTML] Crossing the chasm: how to develop weather and climate models for next generation computers?

BN Lawrence, M Rezny, R Budich… - Geoscientific Model …, 2018 - gmd.copernicus.org
Weather and climate models are complex pieces of software which include many individual
components, each of which is evolving under pressure to exploit advances in computing to …

DCMIP2016: a review of non-hydrostatic dynamical core design and intercomparison of participating models

PA Ullrich, C Jablonowski, J Kent… - Geoscientific Model …, 2017 - gmd.copernicus.org
Atmospheric dynamical cores are a fundamental component of global atmospheric modeling
systems and are responsible for capturing the dynamical behavior of the Earth's atmosphere …

Workflows are the new applications: Challenges in performance, portability, and productivity

T Ben-Nun, T Gamblin, DS Hollman… - 2020 IEEE/ACM …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Great strides have been made to enable performance, portability, and productivity in HPC,
but the focus has so far been on standalone applications and on-node programming …