3D Radiative Transfer Model Coupled to the Weather Research and Forecasting Model

Larry Di Girolamo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Our multi-pronged approach for tackling key problems in weather and climate research using Blue Waters, satellite observations and 3D radiative transfer has had an incredible year of success: (1) dissemination of research in 3 peer-reviewed publications and 16 conferences/meetings/seminars; (2) extensive progress on the Terra Data Fusion project with continued support from NASA and Illinois; (3) continued Terra data analysis for meteorological studies in SE Asia as part of NASA’s Cloud and Aerosol Monsoonal Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex) field campaign; (4) continued enhancements to our understanding of global microphysical properties of water and ice clouds; and (5) continued development of training data from Terra to support ML (CNN) cloud detection algorithm development for NASA’s MAIA mission. Our initial request was underutilized on Blue Waters because I/O limitations between Nearline and Scratch forced a reduced scope in our research.