WACCM, the Whole-Atmosphere Community Climate Model, is a comprehensive numerical model that spans the range of altitude from the Earth’s surface
to the thermosphere.
WACCM development is an NCAR inter-divisional collaboration that unifies certain aspects of the upper atmospheric modeling of HAO, the middle atmosphere modeling
of ACD, and the tropospheric modeling of CGD, using the NCAR Community Climate System Model (CCSM) as a common numerical framework. In an international collaboration
with the researchers in Barcelona and Madrid, WACCM simulations are also run on the Barcelona Supercomputing Center’s machines.
At present, using NLR/GÉANT2 L3 peering, transfer rates from Barcelona to Boulder average about 5Mbps for a single stream. NCAR is investigating using NLR FrameNet
(1-10Gbps) to Chicago, and then using TransLight/StarLight to get to NetherLight, where i2CAT has a 10Gbps link from Amsterdam to Barcelona.
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Collaborators:
USA:
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)/ Atmospheric Chemistry Division (ACD); NCAR Climate and Global Dynamics (CGD) Division;
NCAR High Altitude Observatory (HAO)
Spain:
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
