Simulation and Visualization of Severe Weather

Dear Colleagues,

Each year, severe weather causes loss of life, destruction of property, and the disruption of society across the globe. Tropical cyclones, thunderstorms and the tornadoes they spawn, blizzards, and the flash-flooding associated with deep moist convection cause billions of dollars of damage annually. Our ability to warn the public of severe weather events such as these has improved, but further advances in forecasting are hindered by both a lack of physical understanding, as well as a lack of timely, accurate, and complete observational data.

In this Special Issue, we solicit contributions involving the numerical simulation and visualization of severe weather events. Rapid advances in computing hardware topologies have made it possible to simulate weather systems at unprecedented resolution, revealing fine-scaled features that elucidate the physical processes underlying severe weather events. Moreover, modern supercomputing infrastructures enable researchers to conduct ensembles of high resolution simulations that can provide valuable statistical information well-beyond what a single simulation can provide. These advances have created the need for new programming and analysis approaches that efficiently utilize massively parallel hardware topologies containing a mixture of CPUs and GPUs. We welcome submissions that showcase the use of modern computing hardware to both simulate severe weather events, as well as visualize the simulated data in ways that provide meaning and scientific insight.

Dr. Leigh Orf
Guest Editor

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