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Sandia cloud-resolving climate model meets world’s fastest supercomputer

April 7, 2023 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Focused on the accuracy of climate predictions, a computational team led by Sandia National Laboratories recently achieved a major milestone with a cloud-resolving model they ran on Frontier, the world’s first exascale supercomputer. “We have created the first global cloud-resolving model to simulate a world’s year of...

Balloons and drones and clouds; oh, my!

August 14, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Last week, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories flew a tethered balloon and an unmanned aerial system, colloquially known as a drone, together for the first time to get Arctic atmospheric temperatures with better location control than ever before. In addition to providing more precise data for weather...
Dave Novick examines an octocopter against a background of grey clouds