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Hruby Fellow tackles big problems in climate by focusing on smallest details

News Article, May 16, 2022 • Kelsey DiPietro is accelerating research through her work in computer models. In the world of multigigabit high-speed internet, pre-ordered fast food and Twitter pitch events, there is little patience for slow computer models — especially ones used to combat the Earth’s rapidly changing climate. To address this, Kelsey DiPietro, a Jill...
Early career researcher Kelsey DiPietro

Sandia cloud-resolving climate model meets world’s fastest supercomputer

News Article, April 13, 2023 • Focused on the accuracy of climate predictions, a computational team led by Sandia National Laboratories recently achieved a major milestone with a cloud-resolving model they ran on Frontier, the world’s first exascale supercomputer. “We have created the first global cloud-resolving model to simulate a world’s year of climate in a...
A snapshot of a global simulation superimposed on a view of the earth from space

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.