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Portrait of Global Winds

By R&D Editors | November 27, 2013

 

Courtesy of William Putman/NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterHigh-resolution global atmospheric modeling provides a unique tool to study the role of weather within Earth’s climate system. NASA’s Goddard Earth Observing System Model (GEOS-5) is capable of simulating worldwide weather at resolutions as fine as 3.5 kilometers.

This visualization shows global winds from a GEOS-5 simulation using 10-kilometer resolution. Surface winds (0 to 40 meters/second) are shown in white and trace features including Atlantic and Pacific cyclones. Upper-level winds (250 hectopascals) are colored by speed (0 to 175 meters/second), with red indicating faster.

This simulation ran on the Discover supercomputer at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation. The complete two-year “Nature Run” simulation — a computer model representation of Earth’s atmosphere from basic inputs including observed sea-surface temperatures and surface emissions from biomass burning, volcanoes and anthropogenic sources — produces its own unique weather patterns including precipitation, aerosols and hurricanes.

A follow-on Nature Run is simulating Earth’s atmosphere at 7 kilometers for two years and 3.5 kilometers for three months.

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