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Bridging the Gap between Climate and Weather

reanalysis of historic storm

The distinction between climate and weather was expressed most succinctly by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein: “Climate is what you expect; weather is what you get.” But as global warming produces more noticeable changes on a planetary scale, how do we even know what to expect in a particular region?  [MORE]
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News

NOAA Awarded 2.6 Million Processor Hours at NERSC

As part of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Energy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA has been awarded 10 million processor hours at NERSC, Oak Ridge and Argonne, to develop and perform scientific simulations of the global climate at unprecedented resolution. [MORE]

NERSC User Group to Meet Oct. 2-3 in Oakland

Registration is open for the NERSC User Group (NUG) meeting Oct. 2-3 at NERSC's Oakland Scientific Facility. Thursday, Oct. 2, is training day, followed by the NUG business meeting on Oct. 3. The registration deadline is Sep. 24. [MORE]

Now Computing

A small sample of computations taking place on NERSC supercomputers right now.
ProjectMachineProcessors
The 20th Century Reanalysis Project Franklin 2,464
The 20th Century Reanalysis Project Franklin 2,464
The Role of Eddies in the Meridional Overturning Circulation Franklin 1,024
Computational Astrophysics Consortium Franklin 1,024
Theoretical studies of combustion dynamics Jacquard 128
Simulating the tropical cloud-climate interactions during the TWPICE experimentperiod with the weather research and forecasting model Bassi 96

Science @NERSC

Plasmonic crystal

Practical Plasmonic Crystal Biosensors

A small, low-cost crystal array makes a highly sensitive biosensor

Researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Argonne National Laboratory have developed a small, low-cost crystal array that makes a highly sensitive biosensor, and used computational modeling to explain how it works.

What the researchers achieved was a breakthrough in a common but, until now, expensive technique for measuring binding interactions, such as those between DNA and proteins, based on changes in the refractive index near a metal surface.

[Article]


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