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GMD | Articles | Volume 13, issue 2
Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 735–761, 2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-735-2020
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Special issue: The Firedrake automatic code generation system
Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 735–761, 2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-735-2020
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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Development and technical paper 25 Feb 2020
Development and technical paper | 25 Feb 2020
Slate: extending Firedrake's domain-specific abstraction to hybridized solvers for geoscience and beyond
Thomas H. Gibson et al.
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Tuomas Kärnä, Stephan C. Kramer, Lawrence Mitchell, David A. Ham, Matthew D. Piggott, and António M. Baptista
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 4359–4382, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4359-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4359-2018, 2018
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Unstructured meshes are attractive for coastal ocean modeling, as they allow more accurate representation of complex coastal topography. Unstructured mesh models are, however, often perceived as slow and inaccurate. We present a novel discontinuous Galerkin ocean model: Thetis. We demonstrate that the model is able to simulate baroclinic ocean flows with high accuracy on a triangular prismatic mesh. This work paves the way for highly accurate and efficient three-dimensional coastal ocean models.
Gheorghe-Teodor Bercea, Andrew T. T. McRae, David A. Ham, Lawrence Mitchell, Florian Rathgeber, Luigi Nardi, Fabio Luporini, and Paul H. J. Kelly
Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 3803–3815, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3803-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3803-2016, 2016
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Unstructured meshes offer flexibility but are perceived as slow. Some applications, including atmosphere or ocean simulations, admit an extruded mesh: the horizontal mesh may be unstructured, but the vertical dimension can be traversed in a structured way. By extending the Firedrake automated simulation framework to this case, we show that an extruded mesh can be traversed as fast as a structured mesh. This paves the way for highly efficient unstructured mesh models of the ocean and atmosphere.
J. Thuburn, C. J. Cotter, and T. Dubos
Geosci. Model Dev., 7, 909–929, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-909-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-909-2014, 2014
J. Hill, E. E. Popova, D. A. Ham, M. D. Piggott, and M. Srokosz
Ocean Sci., 10, 323–343, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-10-323-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-10-323-2014, 2014
M. E. Rognes, D. A. Ham, C. J. Cotter, and A. T. T. McRae
Geosci. Model Dev., 6, 2099–2119, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-2099-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-2099-2013, 2013
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Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 3067–3090, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3067-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3067-2020, 2020
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Rohitash Chandra, Danial Azam, Arpit Kapoor, and R. Dietmar Müller
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Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 2723–2742, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-2723-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-2723-2020, 2020
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Jouni Susiluoto, Alessio Spantini, Heikki Haario, and Youssef Marzouk
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Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 879–892, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-879-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-879-2019, 2019
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Christian Kühnlein, Willem Deconinck, Rupert Klein, Sylvie Malardel, Zbigniew P. Piotrowski, Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz, Joanna Szmelter, and Nils P. Wedi
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 651–676, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-651-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-651-2019, 2019
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Ramadan Abdelaziz, Broder J. Merkel, Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini, and Sreejesh Nair
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 167–177, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-167-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-167-2019, 2019
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Miguel de la Varga, Alexander Schaaf, and Florian Wellmann
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 1–32, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1-2019, 2019
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Tianfeng Chai, Ariel Stein, and Fong Ngan
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 5135–5148, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-5135-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-5135-2018, 2018
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Christopher J. Skinner, Tom J. Coulthard, Wolfgang Schwanghart, Marco J. Van De Wiel, and Greg Hancock
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 4873–4888, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4873-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4873-2018, 2018
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Gary L. Russell, David H. Rind, and Jeffrey Jonas
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 4637–4656, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4637-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4637-2018, 2018
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Istvan Z. Reguly, Daniel Giles, Devaraj Gopinathan, Laure Quivy, Joakim H. Beck, Michael B. Giles, Serge Guillas, and Frederic Dias
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 4621–4635, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4621-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4621-2018, 2018
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Joakim Beck, Sören Wolfers, and Gerald P. Roberts
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 4383–4397, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4383-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4383-2018, 2018
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Seismic hazard assessment requires records of earthquake recurrence with many slip events. Current data from paleoseismology on individual faults are sparse and do not provide stable estimates of earthquake recurrence. We propose a statistical model-based method to study timings of earthquakes over the past few millennia. The results agree with historical earthquakes for faults in the Italian Apennines, and can aid future studies of fault interactions over multiple earthquake cycles.
Peter D. Dueben and Peter Bauer
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 3999–4009, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3999-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3999-2018, 2018
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We discuss the question of whether weather forecast models that are based on deep learning and trained on atmospheric data can compete with conventional weather and climate models that are based on physical principles and the basic equations of motion. We discuss the question in the context of global weather forecasts. A toy model for global weather predictions will be presented and used to identify challenges and fundamental design choices for a forecast system based on neural networks.
Anthony P. Walker, Ming Ye, Dan Lu, Martin G. De Kauwe, Lianhong Gu, Belinda E. Medlyn, Alistair Rogers, and Shawn P. Serbin
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 3159–3185, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3159-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3159-2018, 2018
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Large uncertainty is inherent in model predictions due to imperfect knowledge of how to describe the processes that a model is intended to represent. Yet methods to quantify and evaluate this model hypothesis uncertainty are limited. To address this, the multi-assumption architecture and testbed (MAAT) automates the generation of all possible models by combining multiple representations of multiple processes. MAAT provides a formal framework for quantification of model hypothesis uncertainty.
Matthias Rauter, Andreas Kofler, Andreas Huber, and Wolfgang Fellin
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 2923–2939, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2923-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2923-2018, 2018
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We present a physical model for the simulation of dense snow avalanches and other gravitational mass flows. The model is solved with OpenFOAM, a popular open-source toolkit for the numerical solution of partial differential equations. The solver has a modular design and is easy to extend. Therefore, it represents an ideal platform for implementing and testing new model approaches.
Zhixuan Cao, Abani Patra, Marcus Bursik, E. Bruce Pitman, and Matthew Jones
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 2691–2715, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2691-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2691-2018, 2018
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Plume-SPH provides the first particle-based simulation of volcanic plumes. Smooth particle hydrodynamics used here has several advantages over mesh-based methods for multiphase free boundary flows like volcanic plumes. This tool will provide more accurate eruption source terms to users of volcanic ash transport and dispersion models, greatly improving volcanic ash forecasts. The Plume-SPH code incorporates several newly developed techniques in SPH-needed multiphase compressible turbulent flow.
Sabine Hittmeir, Anne Philipp, and Petra Seibert
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 2503–2523, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2503-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2503-2018, 2018
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Model output of quantities such as precipitation usually represents integrals, for example sums over 3 h. It is not trivial to interpolate a time series of such integral values to instantaneous precipitation rates conserving the integral values. A piecewise linear reconstruction is presented which fulfils the conservation, is non-negative, and is continuous at interval boundaries. It will be used in the FLEXPART Lagrangian dispersion model but has many other possible applications.
Richard M. Gorman and Hilary J. Oliver
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 2153–2173, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2153-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2153-2018, 2018
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We describe an optimisation suite ("Cyclops") that can be used to apply a selection of nonlinear optimisation algorithms to "tune" the parameters of a geophysical model. Based on the Cylc workflow engine, Cyclops can be used to calibrate any modelling system that has itself been implemented as a (separate) Cylc model suite, provided it includes computation and output of the desired scalar cost function.
David J. Gardner, Jorge E. Guerra, François P. Hamon, Daniel R. Reynolds, Paul A. Ullrich, and Carol S. Woodward
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 1497–1515, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1497-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1497-2018, 2018
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As the computational power of supercomputing systems increases, and models for simulating the fluid flow of the Earth's atmosphere operate at higher resolutions, new approaches for advancing these models in time will be necessary. In order to produce the best possible result in the least amount of time, we evaluate a number of splittings, methods, and solvers on two test cases. Based on these results, we identify the most accurate and efficient approaches for consideration in production models.
Philippe Delandmeter, Jonathan Lambrechts, Vincent Legat, Valentin Vallaeys, Jaya Naithani, Wim Thiery, Jean-François Remacle, and Eric Deleersnijder
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 1161–1179, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1161-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1161-2018, 2018
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The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method is well suited for the modelling of three-dimensional flows exhibiting strong density gradients. Here, a vertical adaptive mesh method is developed for DG finite element methods and implemented into SLIM 3D. This technique increases drastically the accuracy of simulations including strong stratification, without affecting the simulation cost. SLIM 3D is then used to simulate the thermocline oscillations of Lake Tanganyika.
Thomas Rößler, Olaf Stein, Yi Heng, Paul Baumeister, and Lars Hoffmann
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 575–592, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-575-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-575-2018, 2018
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In this study, we performed an assessment of truncation errors and computational efficiency of trajectory calculations using six popular numerical integration schemes of the Runge–Kutta family. More than 5000 transport simulations for different seasons and regions of the free troposphere and stratosphere were conducted, driven by the latest version of ECMWF operational analyses and forecasts. The study provides guidelines to achieve the most accurate and efficient trajectory calculations.
Koen Hilgersom, Marcel Zijlema, and Nick van de Giesen
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 521–540, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-521-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-521-2018, 2018
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This study models the local inflow of groundwater at the bottom of a stream with large density gradients between the groundwater and surface water. Modelling salt and heat transport in a water body is very challenging, as it requires large computation times. Due to the circular local groundwater inflow and a negligible stream discharge, we assume axisymmetry around the inflow, which is easily implemented in an existing model, largely reduces the computation times, and still performs accurately.
Tarandeep S. Kalra, Alfredo Aretxabaleta, Pranay Seshadri, Neil K. Ganju, and Alexis Beudin
Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 4511–4523, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-4511-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-4511-2017, 2017
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The paper details the sensitivity of vegetation properties that are input to a 3-D submerged aquatic vegetation model within a coupled hydrodynamics and wave model. It describes a novel strategy to perform sensitivity analysis efficiently by using a combination of the Effective Quadratures method and Sobol' indices. This method reduces the number of simulations to understand the sensitivity patterns and also quantifies the amount of sensitivity.
Yanan Fan, Roman Olson, and Jason P. Evans
Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 2321–2332, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2321-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2321-2017, 2017
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We develop a novel and principled Bayesian statistical approach to computing model weights in climate change projection ensembles of regional climate models. The approach accounts for uncertainty in model bias, trend and internal variability. The weights are easily interpretable and the ensemble weighted models are shown to provide the correct coverage and improve upon existing methods in terms of providing narrower confidence intervals for climate change projections.
Darren Engwirda
Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 2117–2140, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2117-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2117-2017, 2017
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A new algorithm for the generation of very high-quality staggered unstructured grids for multi-resolution ocean and atmospheric modelling is described. Through use of unstructured triangulation and grid-optimisation techniques, it is shown that meshes satisfying a number of important a priori grid-quality constraints can be constructed. This new algorithm is expected to be of interest to both developers and users of unstructured general circulation models.
Kristofer Döös, Bror Jönsson, and Joakim Kjellsson
Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 1733–1749, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-1733-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-1733-2017, 2017
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The TRACMASS trajectory code with corresponding schemes has been improved and become more accurate and user friendly over the years. An outcome of the present study is that we strongly recommend the use of the
time-dependentTRACMASS scheme. We would also like to dissuade the use of the more primitive
stepwise-stationaryscheme, since the velocity fields remain stationary for longer periods, creating abrupt discontinuities in the velocity fields and yielding inaccurate solutions.
Evaggelos Kritsikis, Matthias Aechtner, Yann Meurdesoif, and Thomas Dubos
Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 425–431, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-425-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-425-2017, 2017
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This paper describes conservative interpolation on the sphere. A function is computed on one mesh from its values on another mesh so that the total mass is preserved, which is vital for climate modeling, and for second-order accuracy. This is done through a common refinement of the meshes, built in quasilinear time by tree sorting the mesh cells. It can be built into climate models for flexible I/O or coupling. Examples of commonly used meshes are given.
Jeremy D. Silver and Charles S. Zender
Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 413–423, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-413-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-413-2017, 2017
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Many modern scientific research projects generate large amounts of data. Storage space is valuable and may be limited; hence compression is vital. We tested different compression methods for large gridded data sets, assessing the space savings and the amount of precision lost. We found a general trade-off between precision and compression, with compression well-predicted by the entropy of the data set. A method introduced here proved to be a competitive archive format for gridded numerical data.
Anna Agusti-Panareda, Michail Diamantakis, Victor Bayona, Friedrich Klappenbach, and Andre Butz
Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 1–18, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-1-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-1-2017, 2017
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This paper demonstrates how important mass fixers can be in the simulation of long-lived greenhouse gases using transport models based on the highly efficient semi-Lagrangian advection scheme. Mass fixers can have a large impact on the representation of the inter-hemispheric gradient of CO2 and CH4, a crucial feature of their distribution. This work is relevant for models simulating atmospheric composition that use semi-Lagrangian advection schemes both for climate and air quality applications.
Constantijn J. Berends and Roderik S. W. van de Wal
Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 4451–4460, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-4451-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-4451-2016, 2016
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This paper describes several improvements to the so-called "flood-fill algorithm" – a computer program widely known for its use in the "paint bucket" tool in several drawing programs such as MS Paint. However, it can also be used to determine the extent and depth of lakes in a topography map, which is useful in hydrology and climatology. In such cases, the default algorithm can be too slow to be of much use. Our improvements can make it up to 100 times faster, making it much more feasible.
Xiaomeng Huang, Qiang Tang, Yuheng Tseng, Yong Hu, Allison H. Baker, Frank O. Bryan, John Dennis, Haohuan Fu, and Guangwen Yang
Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 4209–4225, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-4209-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-4209-2016, 2016
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Refining model resolution is helpful for representing climate processes. With resolution increasing, the computational cost will become very huge. We designed a new solver to accelerate the high-resolution ocean simulation so as to reduce the computational cost and make full use of the computing resource of supercomputers. Our results show that the simulation speed of the improved ocean component with 0.1° resolution achieves 10.5 simulated years per wall-clock day on 16875 CPU cores.
Gheorghe-Teodor Bercea, Andrew T. T. McRae, David A. Ham, Lawrence Mitchell, Florian Rathgeber, Luigi Nardi, Fabio Luporini, and Paul H. J. Kelly
Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 3803–3815, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3803-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3803-2016, 2016
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Unstructured meshes offer flexibility but are perceived as slow. Some applications, including atmosphere or ocean simulations, admit an extruded mesh: the horizontal mesh may be unstructured, but the vertical dimension can be traversed in a structured way. By extending the Firedrake automated simulation framework to this case, we show that an extruded mesh can be traversed as fast as a structured mesh. This paves the way for highly efficient unstructured mesh models of the ocean and atmosphere.
Charles S. Zender
Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 3199–3211, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3199-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3199-2016, 2016
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We introduce Bit Grooming, a lossy compression algorithm that removes the bloat due to false precision, those bits and bytes beyond the meaningful precision of the data. Bit Grooming is statistically unbiased, applies to all floating-point numbers, and is easy to use. Bit Grooming reduces data storage requirements by 25–80 %. Unlike its best-known competitor Linear Packing, Bit Grooming imposes no software overhead on users, and guarantees its precision throughout the whole floating-point range.
Sergey Skachko, Richard Ménard, Quentin Errera, Yves Christophe, and Simon Chabrillat
Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 2893–2908, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-2893-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-2893-2016, 2016
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In the present work, we performed a comparison of two broadly used data assimilation algorithms, 4D-Var and EnKF, applied to a state-of-the-art atmospheric chemistry transport model. The comparison is carried out using carefully calibrated error statistics. The paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each method applied to real-life conditions of a numerical atmospheric chemistry data assimilation.
Aisling Layden, Stuart N. MacCallum, and Christopher J. Merchant
Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 2167–2189, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-2167-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-2167-2016, 2016
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With the availability of lake surface water temperature (LSWT) satellite data for 246 globally distributed large lakes, we tune a lake model, FLake, by varying 3 basic lake properties, shown to have the most influence over the modelled LSWTs. Tuning reduces the mean absolute difference (between model and satellite LSWTs) from an average of 3.38 ºC per day (untuned model) to 0.85 ºC per day (tuned model). The effect of several LSWT drivers, such as wind speed and lake depth are also demonstrated.
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Galerkin finite element discretizations for atmospheric modeling often require the solution of ill-conditioned, saddle point equations which can be efficiently solved using a hybridized method. By extending Firedrake's domain-specific abstraction, we provide a mechanism for the rapid implementation of hybridization methods for a wide class of methods. In this paper, we show that hybridization is an effective alternative to traditional block solvers for simulating geophysical flows.
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