High-Performance Computing for Atmospheric Modeling

Dear Colleagues,

The primary objectives of atmospheric modeling are to improve our understanding, prediction, and assessment of atmospheric phenomena, ranging from short-term weather to long-term climate changes, air quality, atmospheric composition, and the interactions between the atmosphere and other components of the Earth system.

High-performance computing (HPC) empowers atmospheric modeling by enabling higher resolutions, complex configurations, ensemble simulations, data assimilation, parameter space exploration, and faster model development. It enhances the accuracy, realism, and scientific understanding of atmospheric processes, thereby improving weather prediction, climate projections, air quality assessments, and our overall knowledge of the Earth's atmosphere.

Developing and maintaining the complex software of atmospheric models for current and future HPC systems is challenging. Collaborations between atmospheric scientists and computational experts are crucial for successfully utilizing HPC in atmospheric modeling.

We invite scientists to contribute original research and review articles on future directions for HPC for atmospheric modeling. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Computational complexity and efficient HPC implementation of numerical algorithms used to simulate the behavior of the atmosphere;
• Scalability of highly parallel codes, requiring careful load balancing, minimization of communication overhead, and optimization of data transfer between computing units;
• Code optimization to exploit the full potential of HPC systems, including specialized hardware features such as vectorization, multi-core processors, and accelerators such as GPUs or FPGAs;
• Studies on software complexity, considering that atmospheric models are large, complex software systems with many interacting components;
• Efficient data transfer and storage techniques for terabytes to petabytes of data, including meteorological observations and simulation results.

Dr. Lars Hoffmann
Prof. Dr. Yi Heng
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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