Berkeley Lab (LBNL) is a member of the national laboratory system supported by the US Department of Energy through its Office of Science. It is managed by the University of California and is charged with conducting unclassified research across a wide range of scientific disciplines.
LBNL fosters groundbreaking fundamental science that enables transformational solutions for energy and environment challenges, using interdisciplinary teams and creating advanced new tools for scientific discovery.
LBNL makes a tangible contribution to the FRACTAL project. In particular, this organization is involved in the development of the Computing Platform for Enabling Regional African Climate Model Ensembles (COOPERACE) activity, which will provide allocations on the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center’s (NERSC) supercomputing systems for large ensemble and/or very high resolution regional climate modelling by African researchers. Scientific mentorship and technical computing support will be provided by LBNL, NERSC, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the other sponsoring institutions. COOPERACE will use the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, and thus could provide a capable facility for FRACTAL’s planned simulations using WRF. The extremely high spatial resolution planned in FRACTAL will require such facilities in order to be achieved, especially if it is to produce sufficiently large samples to estimate changes in the sorts of extreme weather that can dominate urban weather risk.
