Map Showing a Storm Surge Simulation on the East Coast Computed Using GENI Resources (IMAGE)
Caption
A storm surge simulation computed with the ADCIRC (a system of computer programs for solving time dependent, free surface circulation and transport problems in two and three dimensions) storm surge, tide, and wind-wave model on ExoGENI cyberinfrastructure. ExoGeni is a new GENI testbed that links GENI to two advances in virtual infrastructure services outside of GENI: open cloud computing (OpenStack) and dynamic circuit fabrics. The simulation is forced by surface winds and atmospheric pressure from the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, from a set of ensemble members representing possible evolutions of Hurricane Floyd (1999), which caused substantial storm surge, inundation and rain-related flooding in coastal North Carolina. The WRF winds are shown with the vector field, the simulated water level with the color surface in feet relative to mean sea level, and the ensemble member storm track with the black line. The true Floyd best track is shown in red. The water level reaches about 12 ft along the North Carolina coast, east of Wilmington.
Credit
Brian Blanton, Renaissance Computing Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill
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