“What is a climate emulator?” Read the interview with NSF NCAR’s Dr. Allison H. Baker about the prize-winning research
January 9, 2025
“A climate emulator is a statistical model designed to mimic the behavior of a climate model... to generate new data or predict outcomes for new inputs more cheaply than running the full climate model.” — Dr. Allison H. Baker
Last November, Dr. Allison H. Baker was part of the team that won the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling—a prize recognizing innovative parallel computing contributions toward solving the global climate crisis, awarded at the Supercomputing 2024 Conference.
The project that won this prestigious award was entitled “Boosting Earth System Model Outputs and Saving PetaBytes in Their Storage Using Exascale Climate Emulators.” The winning 12-member team was led by researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
Dr. Baker, a scientist at the Computational and Information Systems Lab (CISL) at NSF NCAR, recently spoke to CISL News about the innovative research, its significance, her part in it, and what it means for climate scientists.
Read the new interview published on the CISL News site to gain insight into exascale climate emulators and the implications of this exciting scientific advancement!
