Mark Alan Taylor
Computational Science

Computational Science
(505) 284-1874
Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
P.O. Box 5800
Albuquerque, NM 87185-1320
Biography
Mark Taylor is a mathematician who specializes in numerical methods for parallel computing and geophysical flows. He currently serves as Chief Computational Scientist for the DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) project. He developed the Hamiltonian structure preserving formulation of the spectral element method used in E3SM’s atmospheric component model. Mark received his Ph.D. from New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1992. He joined Sandia National Laboratories in 2004 and was promoted to Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in 2018. In 2014 he was awarded (with Drs. David Bader and William Collins) The Secretary of Energy Achievement Award for his work unifying the Department of Energy’s climate modeling research community, enabling the development of high-resolution fully-coupled climate-system simulations. He is a member of the Community Earth System Model’s Scientific Steering Committee. Mark also serves on advisory committees for Earth system modeling projects at Texas A&M University and Vulcan Inc.
Publications: scholar.google.com/citations
Erdös Number: 3
Education
- PhD in Mathematics, Courant Institute, New York University, 1992
Publications
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Eldred, C., Guba, O., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2022). Thermodynamically consistent versions of approximations used in modelling moist air. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 148(748), pp. 3184-3210. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4353 Publication ID: 80345
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Bradley, A., Bosler, P., Guba, O., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2021). Interpolation Semi-Lagrangian Element-Based Transport (Islet) with p-refinement for extremely high-resolution tracer transport [Conference Presenation]. https://doi.org/10.2172/1902840 Publication ID: 77049
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Torchinsky, J., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2021). Improved vertical remapping accuracy [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1883500 Publication ID: 79409
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Guba, O., Taylor, M., Bradley, A., Bosler, P., Steyer, A., & Steyer, A. (2021). A framework to evaluate IMEX schemes for atmospheric models [Conference Presenation]. https://doi.org/10.2172/1869551 Publication ID: 78539
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Eldred, C., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2021). Extending TRiSK with consistent boundaries [Conference Presenation]. https://doi.org/10.2172/1869381 Publication ID: 78526
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Taylor, M. (2021). Cloud-resolving Climate Modeling of the Earth?s Water Cycle [Conference Poster]. https://doi.org/10.2172/1862778 Publication ID: 77972
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Eldred, C., Taylor, M., Norman, M., & Norman, M. (2021). Extending TRiSK with Higher-Order Hodge Stars and WENO/FCT Advection [Conference Presenation]. https://doi.org/10.2172/1854445 Publication ID: 77468
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Guba, O., Taylor, M., Bradley, A., Bosler, P., Steyer, A., & Steyer, A. (2020). A framework to evaluate IMEX schemes for atmospheric models. Geoscientific Model Development, 13(12), pp. 6467-6480. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-6467-2020 Publication ID: 73599
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Bertagna, L., Guba, O., Taylor, M., Foucar, J., Larkin, J., Bradley, A., Rajamanickam, S., Salinger, A., & Salinger, A. (2020). A performance-portable nonhydrostatic atmospheric dycore for the energy exascale earth system model running at cloud-resolving resolutions [Conference Presenation]. International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC. https://doi.org/10.2172/1830973 Publication ID: 71253
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Bertagna, L., Guba, O., Bradley, A., Salinger, A., Taylor, M., Foucar, J., & Foucar, J. (2020). Performance-Portability Results for the Non-Hydrostatic Atmosphere Dycore of E3SM at Cloud-Resolving Resolutions [Conference Presenation]. https://doi.org/10.2172/1831385 Publication ID: 71711
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Bosler, P., Bradley, A., Taylor, M., Guba, O., & Guba, O. (2020). Computing challenges in weather and climate modeling [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1826993 Publication ID: 71340
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Bosler, P., Guba, O., Taylor, M., Bradley, A., nadiga, B., Sun, X., maltrud, M., & maltrud, M. (2020). Compact performance portable semi-Lagrangian algorithms for E3SM [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1830934 Publication ID: 71396
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Bertagna, L., Guba, O., Foucar, J., Taylor, M., Bradley, A., Salinger, A., & Salinger, A. (2020). Performance-portability progress for the ultra-high resolution non-hydrostatic atmosphere model in E3SM [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1822651 Publication ID: 70995
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Taylor, M. (2020). Incorporating GPUs into Earth System Science [Conference Presenation]. https://doi.org/10.2172/1823234 Publication ID: 71028
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Taylor, M. (2020). E3SM: Performance of spectral element dycore on Summit at scale [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1813732 Publication ID: 74527
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Bertagna, L., Guba, O., Taylor, M., Foucar, J., Larkin, J., Bradley, A., Rajamanickam, S., Salinger, A., & Salinger, A. (2020). A performance-portable nonhydrostatic atmospheric dycore for the Energy Exascale Earth System Model running at cloud-resolving resolutions [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1818055 Publication ID: 74689
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Hillman, B., Caldwell, P., Salinger, A., Bertagna, L., Beydoun, H., Peter, B., Bradley, A., Donahue, A., Eldred, C., Foucar, J., Golaz, C., Guba, O., Jacob, R., Johnson, J., Keen, N., Krishna, J., Lin, W., Liu, W., Pressel, K., … Yuan, X. (2020). SCREAM: a performance-portable global cloud-resolving model based on the Energy Exascale Earth System Model [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1807360 Publication ID: 73705
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Taylor, M. (2020). Cloud-resolving Climate Modeling of the Earth?s Water Cycle [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1770550 Publication ID: 72989
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Le Roux, D.Y., Eldred, C., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2020). Fourier analyses of high-order continuous and discontinuous Galerkin methods. SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 58(3), pp. 1845-1866. https://doi.org/10.1137/19m1289595 Publication ID: 71443
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Taylor, M., Guba, O., Steyer, A., Ullrich, P.A., Hall, D.M., Eldred, C., & Eldred, C. (2020). An Energy Consistent Discretization of the Nonhydrostatic Equations in Primitive Variables. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001783 Publication ID: 73562
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Hillman, B., Taylor, M., Hannah, W., Jones, C., Norman, M., Lee, J., Pressel, K., Pritchard, M., Bader, D., Leung, R., & Leung, R. (2019). Reducing the cost of radiation in multi-scale atmosphere models [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1643414 Publication ID: 66835
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Deveci, M., Devine, K., Pedretti, K., Taylor, M., Rajamanickam, S., Çatalyurek, U.V., & Çatalyurek, U.V. (2019). Geometric mapping of tasks to processors on parallel computers with mesh or torus networks. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 30(9), pp. 2018-2032. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2019.2900043 Publication ID: 67455
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Bosler, P., Bradley, A., Guba, O., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2019). Algorithms and software for fast tracer transport in E3SM [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1807176 Publication ID: 70343
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Bertagna, L., Deakin, M., Guba, O., Sunderland, D., Bradley, A., Tezaur, I., Taylor, M., Salinger, A., & Salinger, A. (2019). HOMMEXX 1.0: A performance-portable atmospheric dynamical core for the Energy Exascale Earth System Model. Geoscientific Model Development, 12(4), pp. 1423-1441. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2018-218 Publication ID: 65942
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Taylor, M. (2019). Cloud-resolving Climate Modeling of the Earth?s Water Cycle [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1598925 Publication ID: 65521
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Bosler, P., Bradley, A., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2019). Conservative multimoment transport along characteristics for discontinuous Galerkin methods. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 41(4), pp. B870-B902. https://doi.org/10.1137/18M1165943 Publication ID: 70131
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Hillman, B., Taylor, M., Hannah, W., Jones, C., Norman, M., Sreepathi, S., Bader, D., Leung, R., & Leung, R. (2019). The Super-Parameterized E3SM [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1596414 Publication ID: 64507
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Herrington, A.R., Lauritzen, P.H., Taylor, M., Goldhaber, S., Eaton, B.E., Bacmeister, J.T., Reed, K.A., Ullrich, P.A., & Ullrich, P.A. (2019). Physics-dynamics coupling with element-based high-order Galerkin methods: Quasi-equal-area physics grid. Monthly Weather Review, 147(1), pp. 69-84. https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-18-0136.1 Publication ID: 69223
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Bradley, A., Bosler, P., Guba, O., Taylor, M., Barnett, G.A., & Barnett, G.A. (2019). Communication-efficient property preservation in tracer transport. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 41(3), pp. C161-C196. https://doi.org/10.1137/18M1165414 Publication ID: 67413
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Bertagna, L., Deakin, M., Guba, O., Sunderland, D., Bradley, A., Tezaur, I., Taylor, M., Salinger, A., & Salinger, A. (2018). Exploring the use of Kokkos in HOMME to achieve performance on multiple architectures [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1573556 Publication ID: 60017
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Bosler, P., Bradley, A., Guba, O., Taylor, M., Barnett, G., nadiga, B., & nadiga, B. (2018). Semi-Lagrangian algorithm design for atmospheric modeling using heterogeneous computing architectures [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1573557 Publication ID: 60018
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Guba, O., Bosler, P., Bradley, A., Golaz, C., Taylor, M., Barnett, G., & Barnett, G. (2018). Semi-Lagrangian transport in the atmospheric dycore of E3SM [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1592361 Publication ID: 59969
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Steyer, A., Taylor, M., Guba, O., & Guba, O. (2018). Implicit-Explicit Time-Integration in the E3SM-Homme Nonhydrostatic Atmosphere Model [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1562350 Publication ID: 58827
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Bertagna, L., Deakin, M., Guba, O., Sunderland, D., Bradley, A., Tezaur, I., Taylor, M., Salinger, A., & Salinger, A. (2018). Performance portability for next generation HPC architectures in E3SM via the Kokkos programming model [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1529459 Publication ID: 62673
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Taylor, M. (2018). E3SM Computational Strategy [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1513363 Publication ID: 62047
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Bosler, P., Bradley, A., Taylor, M., Guba, O., Barnett, G., & Barnett, G. (2018). Conservative Semi-Lagrangian Multi-Moment (SLMM) transport on the sphere [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1524836 Publication ID: 62358
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Deveci, M., Devine, K., Pedretti, K., Taylor, M., Rajamanickam, S., Catalyurek, U., & Catalyurek, U. (2018). Exploiting Geometric Partitioning in Task Mapping for Parallel Computes. https://doi.org/10.2172/1436057 Publication ID: 61762
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Taylor, M. (2017). Exascale Earth System Modeling [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1482483 Publication ID: 54161
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Devine, K., Brandt, J., Deveci, M., Gentile, A., Leung, V., Olivier, S.L., Pedretti, K., Rajamanickam, S., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2017). Task Placement to Reduce Application Communication Costs [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1467790 Publication ID: 58152
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Peterson, K., Bochev, P., Ridzal, D., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2017). Optimization-Based Semi-Lagrangian Tracer Transport [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1465013 Publication ID: 57961
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Bosler, P., Bradley, A., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2017). Conservative multi-moment characteristic Galerkin transport on the sphere [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1457843 Publication ID: 56117
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Bambha, R.P., LaFranchi, B., Schrader, P., Roesler, E., Taylor, M., Lucero, D., Ivey, M., Michelsen, H.A., & Michelsen, H.A. (2016). Monitoring Understanding and Predicting the Growth of Methane Emissions in the Arctic. https://doi.org/10.2172/1562416 Publication ID: 52394
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Bosler, P., Roesler, E., Taylor, M., Mundt, M., & Mundt, M. (2016). Stride Search: A general algorithm for storm detection in high-resolution climate data. Geoscientific Model Development, 9(4), pp. 1383-1398. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-1383-2016 Publication ID: 44059
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Deveci, M., Devine, K., Boman, E., Leung, V., Rajamanickam, S., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2016). Partitioning and Task Placement with Zoltan2 [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1530505 Publication ID: 49313
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Taylor, M. (2016). Climate Modeling on Next Generation Supercomputers [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1341369 Publication ID: 46831
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Taylor, M. (2015). The ACME project’s dycore performance strategy for next generation architectures [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1328426 Publication ID: 45933
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Roesler, E., Bosler, P., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2015). Modeling of Arctic Storms with a Variable High-Resolution General Circulation Model. https://doi.org/10.2172/1211557 Publication ID: 44921
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Spotz, W., Spotz, W., Fike, J.A., Fike, J.A., Tezaur, I., Tezaur, I., Salinger, A., Salinger, A., Bova, S., Bova, S., Overfelt, J., Overfelt, J., Taylor, M., Taylor, M., Phipps, E., Phipps, E., & Phipps, E. (2015). Uncertainty Quantification For A Next-Generation Global Atmosphere Model [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1260928 Publication ID: 44212
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Peterson, K., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2015). Optimization-based Spectral Element Semi-Lagrangian Tracer Transport [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1246294 Publication ID: 42497
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Roesler, E., Taylor, M., Boslough, M., Bosler, P., & Bosler, P. (2014). Arctic Storms in a Regionally Refined Atmospheric General Circulation Model [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1314541 Publication ID: 39850
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Demeshko, I., Taylor, M., Norman, M., & Norman, M. (2014). HOMME code on hybrid architectures: porting advection limiters to GPU [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1576107 Publication ID: 38828
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Peterson, K., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2014). Transport Methods for the CAM Spectral Element Dynamical Core [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1496706 Publication ID: 37537
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Michelsen, H.A., Bambha, R.P., Liu, Z., Schrader, P., Ivey, M., Roesler, E., Taylor, M., LaFranchi, B., Helsel, F., Najm, H.N., Sargsyan, K., Safta, C., & Safta, C. (2014). Black Carbon Methane and Carbon Dioxide: Measurement Modeling and Source Attribution [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1494427 Publication ID: 37741
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Taylor, M., Overfelt, J., & Overfelt, J. (2014). The spectral element method on variable resolution grids: Evaluating grid sensitivity and resolution-aware numerical viscosity. Geophysical Model Development. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1145835 Publication ID: 40742
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Michelsen, H.A., Schrader, P., Roesler, E., Taylor, M., Ivey, M., & Ivey, M. (2014). Properties of Black Carbon Particles Relevant to Atmospheric Measurements [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1706455 Publication ID: 40548
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Peterson, K., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2014). New Tracer Advection Schemes for CAM-SE [Conference]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1141050 Publication ID: 37325
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Taylor, M., Bambha, R.P., Parkes, M., Bonal, N., Slinkard, M., Mariner, P., Ingraham, M., Michelsen, H.A., Peterson, K., Lindblom, S., Draelos, T., Broome, S., Ballantine, M., Walck, M., Kuhlman, K., Ilgen, A., Fuller, T., Yoon, H., & Yoon, H. (2013). Geoscience Symposium Abstracts [Conference]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1079014 Publication ID: 33460
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Heinrichs, T., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2013). Implemented “Vertically Lagrangian” Option in the Community Atmosphere Model [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1661074 Publication ID: 33400
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Guba, O., Overfelt, J., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2013). Advection Scheme in CAM-SE Focus on Stabillization [Conference]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1145308 Publication ID: 32271
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Guba, O., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2013). Optimal limiters for the spectral element method. Proposed for publication in Journal of Computational Physics.. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1072624 Publication ID: 31235
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Taylor, M. (2012). global atmospheric modeling at sandia [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1650313 Publication ID: 28569
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Taylor, M., Overfelt, J., Levy, M., & Levy, M. (2011). A Variable Resolution Spectral Element Dynamical Core in the Community Atmospheric Model [Conference]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1120355 Publication ID: 23268
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Guba, O., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2011). Evaluation of CAM-SE Option Studied with Deformational Test Case [1] Hurricane Test Case [2] [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1666327 Publication ID: 23128
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Taylor, M., Overfelt, J., & Overfelt, J. (2011). The Variable Resolution Spectral Element Dynamical Core in the Community Atmospheric Model (CAM) [Conference]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1109007 Publication ID: 21915
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Backus, G.A., Trucano, T., Robinson, D., Adams, B., Richards, E., Siirola, J.D., Boslough, M., Taylor, M., Conrad, S., Kelic, A., Roach, J., Warren, D., Ballantine, M., Stubblefield, W., Snyder, L., Finley, R., Horschel, D., Ehlen, M., Klise, G., … Zagonel, A. (2011). Assessing the Near-Term Risk of Climate Uncertainty:Interdependencies among the U.S. States [Conference]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1120834 Publication ID: 21841
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Guba, O., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2011). Quasi-Monotone Advection Methods for Spectral Elements [Conference]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1109028 Publication ID: 21947
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Taylor, M. (2011). The Spectral Element Dynamical Core in the Community Climate System Model [Conference]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1108797 Publication ID: 22011
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Taylor, M. (2011). A compatible and conservative spectral finite element method on unstructured grids. J. Comput. Phys.. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1109192 Publication ID: 21748
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Taylor, M. (2011). Rotated versions of the Jablonowski steady-state and baroclinic wave test cases: A dynamical core intercomparison. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst.. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1109212 Publication ID: 21745
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Taylor, M. (2011). Intermittency and Thermalization in Turbulence. Chinese Physics Letters. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1109219 Publication ID: 21747
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Taylor, M. (2011). Accuracy analysis of a spectral element atmospheric model using a fully implicit solution framework. Mon. Weather Review. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1109230 Publication ID: 21749
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Taylor, M. (2011). Subcycled dynamics in the spectral Community Atmosphere Model version 4. J. Phys. Comf. Ser.. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1109207 Publication ID: 21774
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Taylor, M. (2011). Performance of the HOMME dynamical core in the aqua-planet configuration of NCAR CAM4: equatorial waves. Ann. Geophys. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1109213 Publication ID: 21775
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Taylor, M. (2011). Evaluation of the HOMME Dynamical Core in the Aqua-Planet Configuration of NCAR CAM4: Rainfall. J. Climate. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1109200 Publication ID: 21776
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Taylor, M. (2011). Low Rossby limiting dynamics for stably stratified flow with finite Froude number. J. Fluid Mech.. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1109196 Publication ID: 21777
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Taylor, M. (2011). Progress towards accelerating HOMME on hybrid multi-core systems. Int. J. High Performance Computing and applications.. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1109225 Publication ID: 21778
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Taylor, M., Guba, O., & Guba, O. (2011). CAM-SE: A scalable spectral element dynamical core for the Community Atmosphere Model. Int. J. High Performance Computing and applications.. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1109185 Publication ID: 21779
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Levy, M., Overfelt, J., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2010). Conforming quadrilaterals meshes on the cubed sphere [Conference]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1028391 Publication ID: 19570
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Boslough, M., Taylor, M., Zak, B., Backus, G.A., & Backus, G.A. (2008). The Arctic as a test case for an assessment of climate impacts on national security. https://doi.org/10.2172/945918 Publication ID: 15115
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Taylor, M. (2008). CEA/SNL Benchmarking [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1709017 Publication ID: 13835
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Taylor, M. (2007). Asymmetric cubature formulas for polynomial integration in the triangle and square. J. Comput. Appl. Math.. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1148097 Publication ID: 9747
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Backus, G.A., Boslough, M., Strickland, J., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2007). SNL Climate Security [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1724184 Publication ID: 9555
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Backus, G.A., Boslough, M., Taylor, M., Strickland, J., & Strickland, J. (2007). SNL Climate Security (Word document) [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1724211 Publication ID: 9552
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Boslough, M., Taylor, M., & Taylor, M. (2006). Supercomputer simulations of 3D seismic waves from a giant impact [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1724621 Publication ID: 8498
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Taylor, M., Strickland, J., & Strickland, J. (2006). 1433 News Note: POP Science Runs [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1727344 Publication ID: 7005
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Boslough, M., Sprigg, J., Backus, G.A., Taylor, M., McNamara, L., Murphy, K., Malczynski, L., & Malczynski, L. (2004). Climate change effects on international stability : a white paper. https://doi.org/10.2172/920790 Publication ID: 4086
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Taylor, M. (2004). A new algorithm for computing multivariate Gauss-like quadrature points [Conference]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/957270 Publication ID: 3161