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LES for the Masses: LASSO’s Going into Production

 
Poster PDF

Authors

William I. Gustafson — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Andrew M. Vogelmann — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Zhijin Li — University of California
Xiaoping Cheng — National University of Defense Technology
Satoshi Endo — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Kyle K Dumas (Quicklooks) — Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Tami Fairless — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Heng Xiao — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Category

ARM next generation – Megasite and LES activities

Description

Large-eddy simulation (LES) is a powerful tool for many applications and computational capacity now is sufficient for many users to easily apply LES for their research. ARM is further simplifying this process by providing routine LES of shallow convection cases over the Southern Great Plains megafacility for open use by the community. The LES ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) pilot phase is ending mid-2017 and transitioning into production mode. This will provide users with the tools necessary to easily identify days with well-behaved forcing data and model simulations, model code and configurations, suites of observational data for evaluating simulations, and an ever-increasing library of LES cases for development of retrievals and data-mining purposes. Goals driving this work include increasing researchers’ ability to use ARM data and quickening discovery for boundary-layer and cloud processes and parameterization. This poster summarizes findings to date from the pilot phase and describes the anticipated forthcoming products that will be available from LASSO.