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Title: TECA: A Parallel Toolkit for Extreme Climate Analysis

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OSTI ID:1076809

We present TECA, a parallel toolkit for detecting extreme events in large climate datasets. Modern climate datasets expose parallelism across a number of dimensions: spatial locations, timesteps and ensemble members. We design TECA to exploit these modes of parallelism and demonstrate a prototype implementation for detecting and tracking three classes of extreme events: tropical cyclones, extra-tropical cyclones and atmospheric rivers. We process a modern TB-sized CAM5 simulation dataset with TECA, and demonstrate good runtime performance for the three case studies.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
Computational Research Division
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
1076809
Report Number(s):
LBNL-5352E
Resource Relation:
Conference: Third Worskhop on Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS 2012) at the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2012), Omaha, Nebraska, June 2012
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English