Coupling NASA Advanced Multi-Scale Modeling and Concurrent Visualization Systems for Improving Predictions of High-Impact Tropical Weather (CAMVis)

Among scenarios in Decadal Survey Missions (DSM) report (NRC, 2007), "Extreme Event Warning" is one of top priority scenarios. This focuses on "discovering predictive relationships between meteorological and climatologically events and less obvious precursor conditions from massive data set." To achieve this, our approach is to deploy the "Coupled Advanced Multi-Scale Modeling and Concurrent Visualization Systems (CAMVis)" by (1) integrating the existing NASA technologies such as NASA multi- scale model system, Goddard Cloud Ensemble model, the Global Mesoscale Model, and the concurrent visualization systems; (2) improving parallel scalability of the coupled multi-scale modeling system to take full advantage of the next generation peta-scale supercomputers; (3) significantly streamlining data flow for fast processing and 3D visualizations; (4) developing visualization modules for fusion of NASA TRMM precipitation and QuikSCAT winds. In this study, we will discuss our current progress and future tasks to support the DSM missions.