CISL Seminar: NCAR Water Systems Program and its connection with CISL

Abstract

The Water Systems Program (WSP) is a NCAR-wide cross-lab base program including teams from RAL, MMM, CGD, EOL, ACOM, and CISL with its inception in early 2000s. The main goal of the WSP is to improve understanding of the current water cycle and its likely evolution in a future climate. To address this grand question, NCAR scientists worked with the broad community closely in the area of global analysis of the water cycle in climate models, regional high resolution climate simulations, observations collection and analysis, development/improvement of land-surface/hydrology processes in community models, and AI/ML applications using high-resolution model data. Through ~20 years of research and development efforts, WSP generated and developed multiple regional high-resolution long-term model datasets and modeling tools for the community and cultivated a few national and international research communities (e.g., SAAG, MAAG, and H2US).

CISL has been a critical partner of WSP and provided computing, data, and visualization support to the program. Moving forward, CISL will play an active role in AI/ML model development and applications using the WSP-generated datasets, data compression research, and data/visualization services in collaboration with the WSP community.