climate modeling

5 Results
Current Filters Clear all

Cross-lab summit brings together experts to connect on climate issues

News Article, June 10, 2024 • Addressing climate change is a top priority for the U.S. Department of Energy, and the national laboratories stand at the forefront of research and action to meet this challenge. These efforts were highlighted at the inaugural Climate Summit between Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories on May 7...
Five scientists sit at a long table in front of a screen and one person stands off to the side with an audience in the foreground

Mathematician proud to help climate security studies

News Article, February 17, 2022 • Sandia applied mathematician Khachik Sargsyan has brought his mind to bear on problems involving combustion, fusion and chemical kinetics — specifically from the viewpoint of probability modeling and quantifying uncertainties in physical systems. Khachik is now turning his expertise to climate security. “I am developing algorithms to improve model predictions...

Sandia collaborating with UNM-led team on sea ice model

News Article, December 12, 2022 • This fall, the Department of Energy announced funding for several projects aimed at improving their Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) to enhance climate prediction and efforts to curb climate change. Three Sandians are part of the team working on one of the projects being led by University of New...
The Arctic Ocean near Barrow, officially known as Utqiaġvik, in late June 2012. Image courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility.

SCREAM wins Gordon Bell climate prize at SC23 convention

News Article, November 27, 2023 • Running a model of the global atmosphere with unprecedentedly high resolution on the world’s first exascale supercomputer, a team led by Sandia National Laboratories has won the Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling presented by the Association for Computing Machinery. The award, announced Nov. 16 at the SC23 convention in Denver, recognizes...
A screenshot of a SCREAM simulation

Statistician seeks to understand climate change through variable relationships

News Article, April 24, 2024 • Climate change is a confusing maze of inputs and outputs. Katherine Goode spends her days trying make the variable chaos behave. Katherine is a research and development statistician at Sandia currently supporting the CLDERA Grand Challenge. She is part of a large research team working to understand climate change mitigation strategies...
Photo of K Goode on skis