This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).

The Petascale Arctic-Atlantic-Antarctic Virtual Experiment (PAVE) will be a kilometer resolution, planetary scale ocean and sea ice simulation that will first be configured to span the Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean, and by the end of the project period will generalize to a fully global simulation. Project implementation will be based on the Massachussetts Institute of Technology General Circulation Model (MITgcm), an ocean and sea-ice modeling system that contains non-hydrostatic and adjoint modeling capabilities that are applicable to kilometer scale and multi-year simulations. Scientific questions motivating the simulations are intended to inform sampling strategies for current and future ocean observing networks. This is a significant broader impact. The large volumes of model output will be managed and made available to researchers without petascale resources, using a novel replay capability that will be developed as part of this project.

Agency
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Institute
Division of Advanced CyberInfrastructure (ACI)
Type
Standard Grant (Standard)
Application #
0904640
Program Officer
Daniel Katz
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2009-07-01
Budget End
2014-06-30
Support Year
Fiscal Year
2009
Total Cost
$736,041
Indirect Cost
Name
Johns Hopkins University
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Baltimore
State
MD
Country
United States
Zip Code
21218