Faculty Interaction

Matt Huber

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Purdue University

Brief Project Description:

Professor Huber's work on climate modeling involves very large scale computing. The Rosen Center is supporting this research, and is working with Professor Huber and other faculty members in EAS to develop an environment for simulation and analysis that will serve climate researchers at Purdue. Professor Huber leads a project that makes high-resolution, real-time NEXRAD Level II radar data available through the internet (Figure 1). These data are widely used in university research and teaching programs in the fields of atmosphere sciences and climatology, hydrology, agriculture, transportation, economics, as well as many other disciplines. Lan Zhao at the Rosen Center has partnered with Professor Huber to support this project.


Figure 1 NEXRAD Level II data

The Rosen Center is also collaborating with Professor Huber in developing a web portal that enables researchers to run CCSM (Community Climate System Model) and analyze the result data using TeraGrid resources (Figure 2). Both the climate modeling data and NEXRAD Level II radar data are managed by the Purdue TeraGrid data management system. The research community currently share and access the data through a variety of interfaces, including Purdue TeraGrid data portal, SRB tools and API, OPeNDAP clients, and web services.


Figure 2 Climate Modeling Data Post Processing Result

Rosen Center staff have also worked with Prof Huber to port and benchmark community climate codes like CCSM on parallel platforms at Purdue, the Teragrid and other sites.