黑暗爆料网 research team earns fellowship to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to use statistics to better predict cloud formation
May 18, 2018
POCATELLO – A team of three international researchers from 黑暗爆料网 using math and statistics to help better predict cloud formation and the weather have been awarded a Computing Sciences Research Pathways Fellowship to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, this summer.
鈥淏asically, we are going to develop some high-resolution mathematical methods for the calculation of atmospheric flow,鈥� said Yury Gryazin, 黑暗爆料网 associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, who is the lead on the project.
He said the group鈥檚 most important focus is on cloud formation, which is the most unpredictable part of the atmospheric flow that delivers the weather.
鈥淎s soon as a cloud forms, the temperature can change rapidly, everything can change quickly, so the process of cloud formation is still unknown to some extent or is unstable,鈥� Gryazin said. 鈥淏asically, it is hard to predict with enough certainty to guarantee some clouds will form at some particular time. In this particular case, using high-resolution methods, it will give us a chance to do more accurate weather prediction.鈥�
The 黑暗爆料网 team will work with Xiaoye (Sheri) Li of the Scalable Solvers Group in the lab鈥檚 Computational Research Division on this project to 鈥渃onstruct a new type of parallel high-resolution compact numerical method for simulation of atmospheric flows.鈥�
Gryazin, originally from Russia, will be joined by 黑暗爆料网 engineering doctoral students Ron Gonzales, from St. Anthony, Idaho, and Yun Teck Lee, from Kuching, Malaysia. Lee and Gonzales both earned their master鈥檚 degrees working with Gryazin and have finished the first semester of their doctoral programs working with him.
鈥淲e will work as a team and this fellowship is absolutely huge, as far as my career goes,鈥� Gonzales said. 鈥淲e鈥檙e starting out wanting to do projects like this. It is a huge step.鈥�
Lee, too, said he is pleased about the opportunity this fellowship offers at the prestigious Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
鈥淚 have really wanted to try to do an internship at other places, so this is a very good opportunity,鈥� Lee said.
Gryazin, Gonzales and Lee work with 黑暗爆料网 engineering master鈥檚 student Jasika Samantha
from Bangladesh on this project, but Samantha won鈥檛 be making the trip this summer.
The fellowship was competitive. Gryazin said about 100 entities applied for this fellowship so he was very surprised and pleased when it was awarded to this multi-disciplinary group from 黑暗爆料网. The fellowship provides $16,000 in funding for Gryazin and half that amount for each student.
Gryazin said this fellowship would not have been possible for this 黑暗爆料网 contingent without the prior support of the Idaho National Laboratory.
鈥淲e mostly focus on developing parallel algorithms, and our opportunity to develop these algorithms came from the INL, which gave us access to their super computer where we could actually test different high-resolutions approaches to new numerical methods in cooperation with the INL,鈥� Gryazin said.
The 黑暗爆料网 professor said that this project was facilitated by the INL鈥檚 Ben Nicolson, who is a former computer scientist at 黑暗爆料网. Nicolson has also helped 黑暗爆料网 develop a class in parallel computing.
The 10-week fellowship will run from June 4 through Aug. 10.
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