Seamless MESO-NH modeling over very large grids
Pantillon, F. ; Mascart, P. ; Chaboureau, J.-P. ; Lac, C. ; Escobar, J. ; Duron, J.
Simulations MESO-NH sans couture sur de très grandes grilles
With the computing power it brings, the new generation of massively parallel computers allows one to perform a "seamless" modeling of weather on large grids, but it requires a large parallel computing capability for the models. Due to improvements in this direction in the meteorological model of the French research community MESO-NH, a computing performance of over 4 Teraflop/s was obtained with 130 000 cores on the machine of the European computer center PRACE. This is a first in France for a weather code. A high resolution simulation, covering the Atlantic and Europe, of the tropical cyclone Helene and its interaction with a planetary wave was also conducted, for which the excellent result gives hope to an improved weather forecasting in Europe. (C) 2010 Academie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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