ASC Image Library
ASC Investments—Visualization: Climate model
This is a simulation of the breakdown of the polar vortex, a circumpolar jet that traps polar air at high latitudes creating conditions favorable for ozone depletion. The breakdown of the vortex, which occurs once or twice a year in the polar wintertime stratosphere, can transport this ozone-depleted polar air well into the mid latitudes. Visualization performed in ParaView; applications built on ParaView in the future will enable comparison of test data and simulation data, promote data discovery among thousands of runs for predictive modeling, and utilize new visualization algorithms that promote scientific insight. Simulation performed on Red Storm with 7600 nodes.