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| Hurricane Modeling Frank Marks, NOAA (PI), Fuqing Zheng, Univ. of Penn., Yonghui Weng, Texas A&M, Karl Schulz, John Cazes, TACC. Visualization by Romy Schneider and Greg P. Johnson, TACC. Ranger has been utilized during the current hurricane season to support NOAA's efforts in tropical storm and hurricane prediction. The effort uses ensemble forecasting techniques which represent the future of weather prediction. Ensemble forecasting is very computationally expensive as multiple forecasts must be run simultaneously in order to obtain a statistical representation of the predicted forecast. The visualization group at TACC (Greg P. Johnson and Romy Schneider) have been developing a program to visualize hurricane modeling results from the WRF runs on Ranger in collaboration with NOAA. This visualization program displays a variety of WRF variables in a 3D georeferenced frame of the US and Gulf region. It simultaneously loads all nests of a simulation run and displays the evolution of the WRF model through time. This image shows Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico in August 2005. |