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NAIRR pilot statistics and opportunities Hart, D. L.. (2025). NAIRR pilot statistics and opportunities. The NAIRR was established to provide researchers and educators with access to computing resources, data, educational tools, and other assets needed for AI research and development. It aims to democratize access to these resources, particula... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
Chapter 5: Why Has Walker’s Climate Research Stood the Test of Time? Katz, R.. (2025). Chapter 5: Why Has Walker’s Climate Research Stood the Test of Time?. , doi:https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811294808_0005 This chapter considers why Sir Gilbert Walker’s climate research has stood the test of time. Reasons include being skeptical about popular approaches such as “period-hunting” and instead relying on more statistically rigorous methods ... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Chapter View on OpenSky |
A Statistical Investigation of the CESM Ensemble Consistency Testing Framework - Part II Molinari, S., Milroy, D., Hammerling, D.. (2024). A Statistical Investigation of the CESM Ensemble Consistency Testing Framework - Part II. , doi:http://doi.org/10.5065/y541-x174 Weather is the archetype for chaotic dynamical system. As such, improvements, updates, and modifications to large scale climate simulation demand there be quality checks in place to ensure that new climate simulations are consistent in thei... CISL Affiliations: CISLVISITORS Publication Genre: Technical Report View on OpenSky |
Snapp-Childs, W. G., Hart, D. L., Costa, C. M., Wernert, J. A., Jankowski, H. E., et al. (2024). Evaluating return on investment for cyberinfrastructure using the International Integrated Reporting This paper investigates the return on investment (ROI) in cyberinfrastructure (CI) facilities and services by comparing the value of end products created to the cost of operations. We assessed the cost of a US CI facility called XSEDE and t... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
From vision to evaluation: A metrics framework for the ACCESS allocations service Hart, D. L., Deems, S. L., Herriott, L. T.. (2024). From vision to evaluation: A metrics framework for the ACCESS allocations service. SN Computer Science, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-024-02787-4 The Allocations Service for the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) program is charged with accepting, reviewing, and processing researchers' requests to use resources that are integrated into th... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Empowering earth system science research: Federated data and compute for Earth system predictability Hauser, T.. (2023). Empowering earth system science research: Federated data and compute for Earth system predictability. CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
From vision to evaluation: A metrics framework for the ACCESS allocations service Hart, D. L., Deems, S., Herriott, L.. (2023). From vision to evaluation: A metrics framework for the ACCESS allocations service. CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
Klema, M., Venayagamoorthy, S. K., Pouquet, A., Rosenberg, D., Marino, R.. (2023). Effect of rotation on mixing efficiency in homogeneous stratified turbulence using unforced direct numerical simulations. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10652-022-09869-y CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Pouquet, A., Rosenberg, D., Marino, R., Mininni, P.. (2023). Intermittency scaling for mixing and dissipation in Rotating Stratified Turbulence at the edge of instability. Atmosphere, doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14091375 Many issues pioneered by Jackson Herring deal with how nonlinear interactions shape atmospheric dynamics. In this context, we analyze new direct numerical simulations of rotating stratified flows with a large-scale forcing, which is either ... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
The Inclusive Conferences Survey: Analysis and validation of inclusivity at HPC conferences Lauer, A., Galbraith, M. C., Wolff, M., Hart, D. L.. (2023). The Inclusive Conferences Survey: Analysis and validation of inclusivity at HPC conferences. PEARC '23: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing, doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/3569951.3597580 As conferences and events take steps to welcome a broader range of people, it is important to accurately assess these efforts. We present and validate the Inclusive Conferences Survey, a tool to measure perceptions of a welcoming atmosphere... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Chapter View on OpenSky |
Stewart, C. A., Costa, C. M., Wernert, J. A., Snapp-Childs, W., Bland, M., et al. (2023). Use of accounting concepts to study research: Return on investment in XSEDE, a US cyberinfrastructure service. Scientometrics, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04539-8 This paper uses accounting concepts-particularly the concept of Return on Investment (ROI)-to reveal the quantitative value of scientific research pertaining to a major US cyberinfrastructure project (XSEDE-the eXtreme Science and Engineeri... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Dashti, H., Smith, W. K., Huo, X., Fox, A. M., Javadian, M., et al. (2023). Underestimation of the impact of land cover change on the biophysical environment of the Arctic and boreal region of North America. Environmental Research Letters, doi:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac8da7 The Arctic and Boreal Region (ABR) is subject to extensive land cover change (LCC) due to elements such as wildfire, permafrost thaw, and shrubification. The natural and anthropogenic ecosystem transitions (i.e. LCC) alter key ecosystem cha... CISL Affiliations: CISLVISITORS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Hart, D. L., Wernert, J., Chalker, A., Smallen, S., Samuel, T., et al. (2022). Measuring XSEDE: Usage Metrics for the XSEDE Federation of Resources: A comparison of evolving resource usage patterns across TeraGrid and XSEDE. PEARC '22: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing, doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/3491418.3530765 The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) program and its predecessor, the TeraGrid, have provided a range of advanced computing resources to the U.S. research community for nearly two decades. The continuously colle... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Chapter View on OpenSky |
An informal introduction to numerical weather models with low-cost hardware Foust, W. E.. (2022). An informal introduction to numerical weather models with low-cost hardware. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0146.1 Weather, climate, and other Earth system models are growing in complexity as computing resources and technologies continue to evolve with time. Thus, models are and will remain a vital tool for scientific research. Exposure and education on... CISL Affiliations: CODE Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
The potential for geostationary remote sensing of NO2 to improve weather prediction Liu, X., Mizzi, A., Anderson, J. L., Fung, I., Cohen, R. C.. (2021). The potential for geostationary remote sensing of NO2 to improve weather prediction. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-9573-2021 Observations of winds in the planetary boundary layer remain sparse making it challenging to simulate and predict atmospheric conditions that are most important for describing and predicting urban air quality. Short-lived chemicals are obse... CISL Affiliations: CISLVISITORS, TDD, DARES Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Cherukuru, N., Manuel, R., Lauer, A., Scheitlin, T. W., Bhagchandani, B.. (2021). Using augmented reality (AR) to create immersive and accessible museums for people with vision-impairments. Augmented Reality (AR) technology has been predominantly used to develop applications that visually augment physical spaces. However, the enabling technologies of AR such as image detection and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping could be... CISL Affiliations: TDD, VAST, CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
Rosenberg, D., Pouquet, A., Marino, R.. (2021). Correlation between buoyancy flux, dissipation and potential vorticity in rotating stratified turbulence. Atmosphere, doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12020157 We study in this paper the correlation between the buoyancy flux, the efficiency of energy dissipation and the linear and nonlinear components of potential vorticity, PV, a point-wise invariant of the Boussinesq equations, contrasting the t... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Statistical issues in detection of trends in losses from extreme weather and climate events Katz, R., Lyubchich, V., Gel, Y. R., Kilbourne, K. H., Miller, T. J., et al. (2021). Statistical issues in detection of trends in losses from extreme weather and climate events. Evaluating Climate Change Impacts, doi:https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351190831-8 This chapter focuses on issues arising in the statistical analysis of losses from extreme weather and climate events, especially for the purpose of the detection of trends. Making use of extreme value theory, we attempt to reconcile the dif... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Chapter View on OpenSky |
Foust, W. E.. (2021). Pi-WRF instructions. , doi:https://doi.org/10.5065/sdhd-ft24 Instructions for running Weather Research Forecast Model (WRF) on a Raspberry Pi (version 3 or higher). CISL Affiliations: CODE Publication Genre: Manuscript View on OpenSky |
Buaria, D., Pumir, A., Feraco, F., Marino, R., Pouquet, A., et al. (2020). Single-particle Lagrangian statistics from direct numerical simulations of rotating-stratified turbulence. Physical Review Fluids, doi:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.064801 Geophysical fluid flows are predominantly turbulent and often strongly affected by the Earth's rotation, as well as by stable density stratification. Using direct numerical simulations of forced Boussinesq equations, we study the influence ... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Pouquet, A., Stawarz, J. E., Rosenberg, D. L.. (2020). Coupling large eddies and waves in turbulence: Case study of magnetic helicity at the ion inertial scale. Atmosphere, doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11020203 In turbulence, for neutral or conducting fluids, a large ratio of scales is excited because of the possible occurrence of inverse cascades to large, global scales together with direct cascades to small, dissipative scales, as observed in th... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Barlow, M., Gutowski, W. J., Gyakum, J. R., Katz, R., Lim, Y., et al. (2019). North American extreme precipitation events and related large-scale meteorological patterns: A review of statistical methods, dynamics, modeling, and trends. Climate Dynamics, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04958-z This paper surveys the current state of knowledge regarding large-scale meteorological patterns (LSMPs) associated with short-duration (less than 1 week) extreme precipitation events over North America. In contrast to teleconnections, which... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Pouquet, A., Rosenberg, D., Marino, R.. (2019). Linking dissipation, anisotropy, and intermittency in rotating stratified turbulence at the threshold of linear shear instabilities. Physics of Fluids, doi:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5114633 Analyzing a large database of high-resolution three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of decaying rotating stratified flows, we show that anomalous mixing and dissipation, marked anisotropy, and strong intermittency are all observed ... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Experience with mixed-precision within physics parameterizations Dennis, J. M., Milroy, D., Baker, A., Gettelman, A., Hammerling, D.. (2019). Experience with mixed-precision within physics parameterizations. CISL Affiliations: TDD, ASAP, CISLVISITORS, IOWA Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
A multivariate global spatiotemporal stochastic generator for climate ensembles Edwards, M., Castruccio, S., Hammerling, D.. (2019). A multivariate global spatiotemporal stochastic generator for climate ensembles. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s13253-019-00352-8 In order to understand and quantify the uncertainties in projections and physics of a climate model, a collection of climate simulations (an ensemble) is typically used. Given the high-dimensionality of the input space of a climate model, a... CISL Affiliations: CISLVISITORS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
XSEDE integration with ORCID for research resources Hart, D. L., Soriano, E., Arnold, C., Peckins, S., Light, R., et al. (2019). XSEDE integration with ORCID for research resources. PEARC '19: Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing on Rise of the Machines, doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/3332186.3333252 Many research infrastructure providers face the challenge of identifying the science output of their user communities. The XSEDE Resource Allocations Service (XRAS) has recently completed integration with the ORCID ecosystem, allowing XSEDE... CISL Affiliations: USS, USSSEC, CISLVISITORS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Schreiber, M., Schaeffer, N., Loft, R. D.. (2019). Exponential integrators with parallel-in-time rational approximations for the shallow-water equations on the rotating sphere. Parallel Computing, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parco.2019.01.005 High performance computing trends towards many-core systems are expected to continue over the next decade. As a result, parallel-in-time methods, mathematical formulations which exploit additional degrees of parallelism in the time dimensio... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Baker, A., Hammerling, D., Turton, T. L.. (2019). Evaluating image quality measures to assess the impact of lossy data compression applied to climate simulation data. Computer Graphics Forum, doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13707 Applying lossy data compression to climate model output is an attractive means of reducing the enormous volumes of data generated by climate models. However, because lossy data compression does not exactly preserve the original data, its ap... CISL Affiliations: TDD, IOWA, CISLVISITORS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Review of the monograph by Pierre Sagaut and Claude Cambon entitled Homogeneous Turbulence Dynamics Pouquet, A.. (2019). Review of the monograph by Pierre Sagaut and Claude Cambon entitled Homogeneous Turbulence Dynamics. Journal of Turbulence, doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/14685248.2019.1579993 CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
A parallel time integrator for solving the linearized shallow water equations on the rotating sphere Schreiber, M., Loft, R. D.. (2019). A parallel time integrator for solving the linearized shallow water equations on the rotating sphere. Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/nla.2220 With the stagnation of processor core performance, further reductions in the time to solution for geophysical fluid problems are becoming increasingly difficult with standard time integrators. Parallel-in-time exposes and exploits additiona... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Modeling and emulation of nonstationary Gaussian fields Nychka, D., Hammerling, D., Krock, M., Wiens, A.. (2018). Modeling and emulation of nonstationary Gaussian fields. Spatial Statistics, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2018.08.006 Geophysical and other natural processes often exhibit nonstationary covariances and this feature is important for statistical models that attempt to emulate the physical process. A convolution-based model is used to represent nonstationary ... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT, TDD, AIML Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Reduced basis kriging for big spatial fields Pazdernik, K., Maitra, R., Nychka, D., Sain, S.. (2018). Reduced basis kriging for big spatial fields. Sankhya A, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s13171-018-0129-7 In spatial statistics, a common method for prediction over a Gaussian random field (GRF) is maximum likelihood estimation combined with kriging. For massive data sets, kriging is computationally intensive, both in terms of CPU time and memo... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
High performance computing and spatial data: An overview of recent work at NCAR Hammerling, D., Chen, S., Guinness, J., Jurek, M., Katzfuss, M., et al. (2018). High performance computing and spatial data: An overview of recent work at NCAR. CISL Affiliations: TDD, AIML, CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
Climate, ecosystems, and planetary futures: The challenge to predict life in Earth system models Bonan, G. B., Doney, S.. (2018). Climate, ecosystems, and planetary futures: The challenge to predict life in Earth system models. Science, doi:https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aam8328 Many global change stresses on terrestrial and marine ecosystems affect not only ecosystem services that are essential to humankind, but also the trajectory of future climate by altering energy and mass exchanges with the atmosphere. Earth ... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Small-scale behavior of Hall magnetohydrodynamic turbulence Stawarz, J. E., Pouquet, A.. (2015). Small-scale behavior of Hall magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. Physical Review E, doi:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.92.063102 Decaying Hall magnetohydrodynamic (HMHD) turbulence is studied using three-dimensional (3D) direct numerical simulations with grids up to 768(3) points and two different types of initial conditions. Results are compared to analogous magneto... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
The dynamic nature of congestion in InfiniBand Lu, Q., Russell, R. D., Mizero, F.. (2015). The dynamic nature of congestion in InfiniBand. The InfiniBand Congestion Control (CC) mechanism is able to reduce congestion and improve performance in many situations. In this paper we study the characteristics of congestion in InfiniBand by monitoring and analyzing the CC mechanism wi... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
Optimizing the efficiency of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center Facility - Part 2 [presentation] Olarinde, A., Nsengimana, T., Andersen, A. H.. (2014). Optimizing the efficiency of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center Facility - Part 2 [presentation]. CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT, OSD Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
Nsengimana, T., Olarinde, A., Andersen, A. H.. (2014). Optimizing the efficiency of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Facility: A software perspective [presentation]. The proper analysis of the bulk data generated by mechanical and electrical sensors spread across the NCAR-Wyoming supercomputing center can provide invaluable insights about the facility. They can for instance assist us to distinguish the ... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT, OSD Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
Accelerating the 'fields' package: Theory and computation of Kriging surfaces [presentation] Paige, J., Lyngaas, I., Vadlamani, S., Nychka, D.. (2014). Accelerating the 'fields' package: Theory and computation of Kriging surfaces [presentation]. 'Fields' is a widely used, open source, and freely available spatial statistics package in R that can be used to analyze spatial variation in anything from global temperatures to restaurant ratings. Increasingly, however, it has become nece... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT, TDD, ASAP Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
Accelerating the 'fields' package: Using parallel linear algebra software [presentation] Lyngaas, I., Paige, J., Vadlamani, S., Nychka, D.. (2014). Accelerating the 'fields' package: Using parallel linear algebra software [presentation]. Statistical packages such as the 'Fields' package in R can benefit from using multicore systems and accelerated hardware such as GPUs and Xeon Phis. Performance of linear algebra operations such as those used in spatial statistics computati... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT, TDD, ASAP Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
HOMME trace analysis [presentation] Mizero, F., Dennis, J. M., Veeraraghavan, M., Russell, R., Liu, Q.. (2014). HOMME trace analysis [presentation]. The High-Order Method Modeling Environment (HOMME) is the default dynamical core within CAM, and consumes a significant fraction of the total cycles on Yellowstone. While HOMME has an scalable communication library that has been shown to sc... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT, TDD, ASAP Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
Turbulence comes in bursts in stably stratified flows Rorai, C., Mininni, P. D., Pouquet, A.. (2014). Turbulence comes in bursts in stably stratified flows. Physical Review E, doi:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.043002 There is a clear distinction between simple laminar and complex turbulent fluids; however, in some cases, as for the nocturnal planetary boundary layer, a stable and well-ordered flow can develop intense and sporadic bursts of turbulent act... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Ocean currents likely to carry oil to Atlantic (Google Earth Version) Burek, M. J., Haley, M. L., Brownrigg, R. L., Maltrud, M., Middleton, D. E., et al. (2010). Ocean currents likely to carry oil to Atlantic (Google Earth Version). Publication Genre: Data Visualization View on OpenSky |
Virtual clusters for hands-on Linux cluster construction education [presentation] Marshall, P., Oberg, M. D., Rini, N., Voran, T. R., Woitaszek, M. S.. (2010). Virtual clusters for hands-on Linux cluster construction education [presentation]. This paper presents the design and implementation of a virtual cluster hosting platform for hands-on Linux cluster system administration education. Using operating system and network virtualization, a collection of physical hosts is used to... Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
Using geo-referenced imagery in 3D visualization of WRF-ARW output [poster] Norton, V., Clyne, J. P., Brownrigg, R. L.. (2010). Using geo-referenced imagery in 3D visualization of WRF-ARW output [poster]. Three-dimensional weather visualization is enhanced by the inclusion of geo-referenced imagery from external sources. Using the VAPOR visualization platform, we embed images from Web Mapping Services (WMS's) and 2D plots from NCAR Command L... Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
The Asteroseismic Modeling Portal Woitaszek, M. S., Metcalfe, T., Shorrock, I.. (2009). The Asteroseismic Modeling Portal. The Asteroseismic Modeling Portal (AMP) provides a web-based interface for astronomers to derive the properties of Sun-like stars from observations of their pulsation frequencies. The primary motivation for AMP is NASA's recent launch of th... Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
Garcia, J., Kelly, R., Voran, T. R.. (2009). Accelerating the computation of theoretical spectro-polarimetric signals: Comparative analysis of the Cell BE, and the NVIDIA and AMD graphics card architectures for implementing the Voigt function [presentation]. Rapid calculation of the Voigt profile is critical for high performance in computational spectropolarimetric analysis. The Curtis and Osborne approximation to the Voigt function is arithmetically dense and embarrassingly parallel which make... Publication Genre: Conference Material View on OpenSky |
NCAR Supercomputing: Tackling climate change concerns through facility efficiency Unger, H. M., Andersen, A. H.. (2008). NCAR Supercomputing: Tackling climate change concerns through facility efficiency. Zerodowntime The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), perched at the foot of the Rocky Mountains overlooking Boulder, Colorado, is home to a supercomputing facility that serves the atmospheric sciences community. Designed by world-renowned a... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT, OSD Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
NCAR: Advancing scientific discovery to benefit society Unger, H. M.. (2007). NCAR: Advancing scientific discovery to benefit society. Computing Research News The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center, primarily sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and devoted to service, research, and education in atmospheric and rela... CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
A Bayesian hierarchical extreme value model for lichenometry Cooley, D., Naveau, P., Jomelli, V., Rabatel, A., Grancher, D.. (2006). A Bayesian hierarchical extreme value model for lichenometry. Environmetrics, doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/env.764 CISL Affiliations: CISLAODEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |