Tag Archive: NCI

New dataset reveals key to Townsville flood disaster

June 5, 2019 1:32 pm Published by Comments Off on New dataset reveals key to Townsville flood disaster

CLEX researchers with the Bureau of Meteorology have created a new 20-year-long regularly updated precipitation dataset for Australia using 50 radar sites. This will allow researchers to examine the climatology of extreme events, follow cloud processes, estimate hail size, determine cloud top height and much more.

CMS training – Clef: discovering CMIP6

March 29, 2019 9:46 am Published by Comments Off on CMS training – Clef: discovering CMIP6

Paola Petrelli (CLEX CMS) and Kate Snow (NCI) talk about CMIP6 and Clef, the tool CMS have developed for searching CMIP datasets at NCI.

RP1: Extreme Rainfall report – April 2019

March 23, 2019 10:38 pm Published by Comments Off on RP1: Extreme Rainfall report – April 2019

The past four months have seen Extreme Rainfall researchers win a slew of awards and produce some important foundational research on storms, hybrid cyclones, and some unexpected influences on extreme rainfall events.

Kelp’s record journey exposes Antarctic ecosystems to change

July 15, 2018 1:00 am Published by Comments Off on Kelp’s record journey exposes Antarctic ecosystems to change

When Chilean researcher Dr Erasmo Macaya from Universidad de Concepción and Centro IDEAL stumbled upon foreign kelp washed up on an Antarctic beach, he knew he had found something significant. Research by an international, multidisciplinary team of scientists reveals just how important that finding was.

Research brief: New research rewrites Southern Ocean mixing calculations

April 26, 2018 11:41 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: New research rewrites Southern Ocean mixing calculations

World-first modelling research– which used several million CPU hours in Australia’s fastest supercomputer, Raijin, and ran calculations non-stop for over a year – has revealed the Southern Ocean mixes water between the depths and surface far more easily than previously thought.

TotalView tutorial 3: Core dumps

April 8, 2018 7:37 am Published by Comments Off on TotalView tutorial 3: Core dumps

Model crashing halfway through? Don't want to wait in the debugger for hours? Scott Wales explains how to save crash information with core dumps for easier debugging.