Supercomputer will help researchers map climate change down to the local level

Washington Post: Marika Holland, chief scientist for NCAR's Community Earth System Modeling Project, said the new supercomputer is "close to a game-changer. We've had incremental improvements in our computational resources over time, but . . . Yellowstone is a whole new scale, and there are things that we will be able to explore that just were not possible before.' As climate models become more complex and detailed, limited computing power bottlenecks the research. Broad-brush models use less power,...

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