+ NASA Home + Ames Home + Sitemap + Staff Directory +Home COLUMBIA SUPERCOMPUTER + Scientific Projects + News + Science Mission Directorate Website PROJECTS RUNNING ON THE COLUMBIA SUPERCOMPUTER Projects titles are listed in alphabetical order by principal investigator. Science Mission Directorate Large Eddy Simulations of Cloud Systems Important to Climate Principal Investigator: Andrew S. Ackerman Carbon Cycling in the North Atlantic Principal Investigator: Laurence Anderson Application of Satellite Surface Wind data to Ocean Surface Analysis and Numerical Weather etc.. Principal Investigator: Joseph V. Ardizzone Mar Science Lab Aerodynamics Principal Investigator: Sasan Armand Physics of Gravitational Instability in Accretion Disks Principal Investigator: Philip Armitage Simulations of relativistic collisionless shocks in astrophysical plasmas Principal Investigator: Jonathan Arons Simulations for Multiscale Multipoint Mission Oriented Theory for CLUSTER Principal Investigator: Maha Ashour-Abdalla Simulating the Internal Dynamics of the Ice Giants Principal Investigator: Jonathan Aurnou Coupled Ocean and Atmosphere Data Assimilation Systems for Climate of the 20th Century Principal Investigator: Venkatramani Balaji Simulations of Extrasolar Planetary Atmospheres with PHOENIX Principal Investigator: Travis S. Barman Large Eddy Simulation of the Mars Planetary Boundary Principal Investigator: Jeffrey R. Barnes Planetary Growth from 1KM Planetesimals Principal Investigator: Rory Barnes 3D AMR simulations of the evolution of magnetic fields in the Universe Principal Investigator: Mitchell Begelman 2D transverse MHD AMR simulations of magnetized relativistic jets Principal Investigator: Mitchell Begelman Cosmic ray bubbles and abundance gradients in cluster Principal Investigator: Mitchell Begelman Gamma-Ray Bursts as a window into extreme physics Principal Investigator: Mitchell Begelman Non-thermal pressure in cool cores of clusters of galaxies Principal Investigator: Mitchell Begelman Global MHD modeling of the Dayside Magnetosphere Principal Investigator: Jean Berchem Global Topology of Dayside Merging Principal Investigator: Jean Berchem Investigation of microclimatic changes associated with tropical forest fragments Principal Investigator: Denise Berendes Lighting Scattering by Nonspherical Particles Principal Investigator: Matthew J. Berg Analysis of the Spectral Absorption Coefficient of Atmospheric Aerosols Principal Investigator: Robert W. Bergstrom Assessment of Greenhouse Gases and Aerosol Climate Effects etc. Principal Investigator: Robert W. Bergstrom Multiscale Fluid and PIC Simulations of Substorms Principal Investigator: Amitava Bhattacharjee Climate-Related Interannual Variability of Potential New Production Principal Investigator: James Bisagni High Performance Computing For Planck Data Analysis Principal Investigator: Julian Borrill Kepler Mission Photometric Test Bed/Ground-based Detection of Extra-Solar Giant Planets Principal Investigator: William J. Borucki MODIS Observations to Improve North American Monsoon Seasonal Simulations Principal Investigator: Michael G. Bosilovich Coupling of Mars Atmospheric Regions: Mars GeneralCirculation Model (GCM)Investigation using MGS Principal Investigator: Stephen Bougher Hybrid Particle/MHD code simulations of Mars and Titan Principal Investigator: Dr. Stephen H. Brecht Multi-Dimensional Supernova Simulations Principal Investigator: Adam Burrows Sunspot Model Principal Investigator: Friederich Busse Foreign National Access-VI Principal Investigator: Friederich Busse Data assimilation studies of ocean climate variability during the last 20-50 years. Principal Investigator: James A. Carton Mining the Cosmic Web Principal Investigator: Renyue Cen Foreign National Access-818 Principal Investigator: Renyue Cen Foreign National Access-815 Principal Investigator: Renyue Cen Detailed Signatures of Cosmological Reionization (date for expiration is 04/30/2009) Principal Investigator: Renyue Cen Modeling Gravitational Wave Sources for LISA Principal Investigator: Joan M. Centrella Modeling the Pacific Ocean using Regional Ocean Modeling Systems (ROMS) Principal Investigator: Yi Chao Understanding and simulation of tropical large- scale circulations using the GMAO GCM Principal Investigator: Winston Chao Characterization of Diffuse Aurorae During Magnetic Storms and Substorms Principal Investigator: Margaret Chen N-Body Hydrodynamical Simulations of Super Star Cluster Formations Principal Investigator: You-Hua Chu Global Magnetospheric Dynamics During Substorms, Sawtooth events & SMD's Principal Investigator: Robert Clauer Upper Atmospheric Flow: Interpretation of Rocket Measurements using Flow Calculations Principal Investigator: James Clemmons Improved Estimates of Aerosol Direct and Indirect Effects on Climate Through Inclusion of Aerosol Principal Investigator: Peter Colarco Foreign National Access-X Principal Investigator: Michael Combi 3D Particle Kinetic and MHD Modeling for Cometary and Tenuous Planetary Atmospheres Principal Investigator: Michael Combi Modeling, Analysis and Prediction (MAP), Earth- Sun Science Division Principal Investigator: Lawrence Coy Protoplanetary particle-gas dynamics Principal Investigator: Jeffrey N. Cuzzi Combined Assimilation of OMI/MODIS Data with Real-time Radiance Monitoring Principal Investigator: Arlindo Da Silva Aerosol Effects on Cyclogenesis During NAMMA Principal Investigator: Arlindo Da Silva Combined Assimilation of CALIPSO/OMI/MODIS AerosolData Principal Investigator: Arlindo Da Silva The Size Of Growing Protoplanets Principal Investigator: Gennaro Dangelo Connecting Observations and Advanced Simulations of the Solar Chromosphere Principal Investigator: Bart De Pontieu Foreign National Access-13 Principal Investigator: Bart De Pontieu Common Modeling Infrastructure in Support of the US Climate Change Science Program. Principal Investigator: Cecelia DeLuca Modeling of Magnetic Features Observed by the Hinode/Solar Optical Telescope Principal Investigator: Marc DeRosa Foreign National Access-801 Principal Investigator: Marc DeRosa Precise Orbit Determination of the GPS Constelation for 1995-2007 Principal Investigator: Shailen Desai Simulating Earthquake Processes on High End Computers Principal Investigator: Andrea Donnellan Gravitational Instabiliteis,Chondrule Formation, and the FU Orionis Phenomenon Principal Investigator: Richard Durisen Quantum Mechanical Investigation of Planetary DOH/HOH Principal Investigator: Igor J. Eberstein Emergence of twisted active region flux tubes Principal Investigator: Yuhong Fan Simulations of the Martian Atmospheric Escape Principal Investigator: Xiaohua Fang Earth-Sun Science Division Principal Investigator: Ichiro Fukumori U.S.GODAE: Sustained Global Ocean State EstimationFor Scientific and Practical Application Principal Investigator: Ichiro Fukumori MMS Plume Imingement Analysis Principal Investigator: Alison Gallagher-Rogers Convection and Magnetic Field Generation in Giant Planets Principal Investigator: Gary A. Glatzmaier High Resolution Global Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of the Solar Wind in 3 Dimensions. Principal Investigator: Melvyn Goldstein Halloween Storm Simulations with the Space Weather Modeling Framework Principal Investigator: Tamas Gombosi Foreign National Access-817 Principal Investigator: Tamas Gombosi Coronal Mass Ejections as Radio Sources in the Solar Corona Principal Investigator: Natchimuthuk Gopalswamy Simulating the Formation of Dwarf Galaxies Principal Investigator: Fabio Governato Simulation The Formation of the Milky Way Principal Investigator: Fabio Governato Interactive parallel computing and distribution arrays in Python Principal Investigator: Brian Granger Sea Level, Gravity and the Earth's Rotation Principal Investigator: Richard Gross Spaced Based Estimates of Arctic/Sub-Arctic Exchange using Data Assimilation and Ocean Models Principal Investigator: Thomas Haine Computational Acoustics in Spherical Geometry Steps Towards Validating Helioseismology Principal Investigator: Shravan Hanasoge Calculate dust single-scattering properties using FDTD light scattering code Principal Investigator: Richard Hansell Foreign National Access-VII Principal Investigator: Kenneth Hansen Using MHD Simulations to Establish how the Solar Wind and Internal Stresses Control the Structure.. Principal Investigator: Kenneth Hansen Solar Probe Interaction with the Solar Wind Principal Investigator: Richard Hartle Analysis of Titan's Interaction with Saturn's Magnetosphere using Cassini Titan Flyboy Data Principal Investigator: Richard Hartle Three-Dimensional MHD Simulation of solar corona Principal Investigator: Keiji Hayashi Modeling Ice Shelf-ocean interaction in the Antarctic Principal Investigator: David Holland Consequences of Gravitational Wave Kicks on the Evolution of Black Holes Principal Investigator: Kelly Holley-Bockelmann Mars Global Climate Modeling Principal Investigator: Jeffery L. Hollingsworth Using the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) andGoddard Cumulus Ensemble (GCE) model Principal Investigator: Arthur Hou WRF based ensemble assimilation of precipitation Principal Investigator: Arthur Hou Precipitation/Convection Assimilation Principal Investigator: Arthur Hou Foreign National Access-813 Principal Investigator: Paul Houser Request NASA Supercomputer Time for a NASA Project Principal Investigator: Paul Houser International Access-0822 Principal Investigator: Paul Houser Multiscale solar Convention Principal Investigator: Neal Hurlburt Interactions Between Solar Magnetic Fields and Large-Scale Flows Principal Investigator: Neal Hurlburt Dynamics of Multiscale Solar Convection Principal Investigator: Neal Hurlburt Time-dependent radiative transfer in extrasolar planet atmospheres: basis for interpretation ect.. Principal Investigator: Nicolas Iro Earth-Sun System Division-Science Mission Direct. Principal Investigator: Charles Jackman Studying the Effects of Global Climate on Regional Pollution Principal Investigator: Mark Z. Jacobson Modeling Aerosol Interactions With Clouds Principal Investigator: Mark Z. Jacobson Quantum Chemistry Study of Prebiotic Geochemistry Mechanisms Principal Investigator: Richard L. Jaffe Large EDDY Simulations of Tropical Deep Convection Principal Investigator: Eric J. Jensen Using Infrared Satellite Data for Assimilation and Model Evaluation Principal Investigator: Joanna Joiner Simulations of 3D Pulsar Magnetospheres Principal Investigator: Demosthenes Kazanas Foreign National Access-804 Principal Investigator: James Kinter Foreign National Access-820 Principal Investigator: James Kinter Foreign National Access-12 Principal Investigator: James Kinter Foreign National Access-812 Principal Investigator: James Kinter Predictability of Earth's Climate Principal Investigator: James Kinter Realistic Simulation of Solar Supergranulation Principal Investigator: Alexander Kosovichev Simulations of Pick-Up Ions Around mars Principal Investigator: Janet Kozyra Nasa Augmentation to USDA HERMES Models for Invasive Species and Biological Control Agent Mode Principal Investigator: Marc Kramer Numerical Modeling Historical Martian Dynamo Principal Investigator: Weijia Kuang Use Of MODIS SST to Improve High Resolution Modeling of Atmosphere/Ocean Interactions etc.. Principal Investigator: William Lapenta Using the Goddard Version of Weather Research and Forecast to Study Aerosol-Monsoon H20 Cycle Principal Investigator: William Lau Ocean Land Atmosphere Model Simulations Principal Investigator: Tsengdar Lee Ocean Circulation Modeling by Data Assimilation Principal Investigator: Tong Lee Simulations of Geospace During Magnetic Storms Principal Investigator: Michael Liemohn Foreign National Access-XI Principal Investigator: Michael Liemohn Is a US Global Cloud resolving weather-climate modeling system feasible within 3 year? Pilot Stud Principal Investigator: Shian-Jiann Lin Cloud Collisions and Star Formation in the Early Universe Principal Investigator: Douglas Lin Investigating the Interaction Between Proto- planets and Circumstellar Disks in Star Forming Principal Investigator: Douglas Lin High-resolution modeling of the Southern Ocean carbon cycle based on ECCO state estimates Principal Investigator: Nicole Lovenduski Planetesimal Dynamics in a Turbulent Protoplanetary Disk Principal Investigator: Mordecal-Mark Mac Low Assembly and Environmental impact of the First Massive Black Holes Principal Investigator: Piero Madau Simulation of Pick-up Ions Around Mars Principal Investigator: Ward Manchester Simulations of the Near Surface and Interior of The Sun Principal Investigator: Nagi N. Mansour Requesting of Columbia High-End Computing Resources for ECCO2 Principal Investigator: John Marshall Foreign National Access-809 Principal Investigator: John Marshall Foreign National Access-810 Principal Investigator: John Marshall A study of PMC variability using a 3-dimensional GCM Principal Investigator: Aimee Merkel High-Resolution 3D Mars Cloud Modeling Principal Investigator: Tim Michaels High Resolution Wind Fields for Constraining North American Fluxes of Carbon Dioxide etc.. Principal Investigator: Anna Michalak High-Resolution Simulations of Coronal Mass Ejections Principal Investigator: Zoran Mikic Estimating Ocean Mixed Layer Depths from SatelliteData Principal Investigator: John Moisan The Interaction of Fast Flowing Plasmas with Solar System Bodies Principal Investigator: Andrew F. Nagy Foreign National Access-16 Principal Investigator: Andrew F. Nagy Ensemble modeling of terrestrial carbon cycling over North America Principal Investigator: Ramakrishna R. Nemani Simulation of Particle Acceleration by Localized Auroral Electric Fields Principal Investigator: David Newman Computational Studies of Relativistic Jets Principal Investigator: Ken-Ichi Nishikawa Computational Models of Solar Coronal Plasma Principal Investigator: Leon Ofman Foreign National Access-IV Principal Investigator: Leon Ofman Foreign National Access-807 Principal Investigator: Merav Opher Foreign National Access-811 Principal Investigator: Merav Opher Heliosheath Flows with a Tilted Solar Magnetic Field Principal Investigator: Merav Opher Simulating the Evolution of CME Shocks in a Realistic Lower Corona and their Radio etc... Principal Investigator: Merav Opher 3-D SPH Simulation of Wind-Wind Collision in the Extreme Massive Star System ETA Carine Principal Investigator: Stanley Owocki Hypersonic Turbulence and Star Formation Principal Investigator: Paolo Padoan Simulation of Scattering of Solar Acoustic Waves By Sunspots for Helioseismic Analysis of Data etc. Principal Investigator: Kostyantyn Parchevsky Optimization of NASA's Next Generation Global Geodetic Networks Principal Investigator: Erricos Pavlis Data Assimilation for the Carbon Cycle Principal Investigator: Steven Pawson Field Mission Support for EOS-Aura Principal Investigator: Steven Pawson Coupled predictions of ozone-climate:1950-2100 Principal Investigator: Steven Pawson High Performance Simulation and Data Assimilation with High Resolution Land etc... Principal Investigator: Christa Peters-Lidard Can Assimilating Satellite Observation of Clouds improve forecast skill Principal Investigator: Robert Pincus Ab initio calculations of intersellar amino acid formation Principal Investigator: Sandra Pizzarello Mechanism and Early Evolution of Protocellular Transport Principal Investigator: Andrew Pohorille Computer Modeling of Protocellular Functions Principal Investigator: Andrew Pohorille High Resolution Cosmological Simulations and Galaxy Evolution Principal Investigator: Joel Primack The Impact of space-based Doppler wind lidar observations on high-impact weather forcasting Principal Investigator: Zhaoxia Pu Galactic Black Hole Mergers and the Fueling of AGNs Principal Investigator: Thomas R. Quinn Implications of energetic particle precipitaion for the stratosphere Principal Investigator: Cora Randall Observing System Experiments to evaluate and enhance the impact of current future satellite Principal Investigator: Oreste Reale Emitting to the Beat of a Different Drummer: Far Infrared IR Spectroscopy of PAHS Principal Investigator: Alessandra Ricca Merging Data and Global Model Results to Better Understand the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System Principal Investigator: Aaron Ridley Advanced Data Assimilation into a High Resolution Global Ocean Model Principal Investigator: Michele M. Rienecker High Resolution Coupled Climate Simulations Principal Investigator: Michele M. Rienecker Foreign National Access-14 Principal Investigator: Michele M. Rienecker Numerical Experiments for Climate Diagnostics and Moist Physics Improvements Using the GEOS5 AGCM Principal Investigator: Franklin R. Robertson 3D Simulations of Accretion to a Star with Magnetic Field. Principal Investigator: Marina Romanova Numerical Investigations of SEP Production in Gradual Events Based on Realistic Models of etc. Principal Investigator: Ilia Iankov Roussev 3-D Photionization Modeling of Planetary Nebulae with High Abundance Discrepancy Factors Principal Investigator: Robert H. Rubin Studies of the atmospheric impact of 11 year solarvariability using the Whole Atmosphere Model Principal Investigator: Fabrizio Sassi SOFIA Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis 10884 Principal Investigator: Sven Schmid Understanding and Quantifying the 1970s Climate Transition Principal Investigator: Siegfried Schubert On the Causes and Predictability of Multi-Year North American Droughts Principal Investigator: Siegfried Schubert Simulating Recent Climate Extremes and their Impacts on Weather with a Resolution Model Principal Investigator: Siegfried Schubert High Resolution Climate Model Simulations of Recent Hurricane and Typhoon Activity. Principal Investigator: Siegfried Schubert Lagrangian tracking of satellite products with a numerical model:A new method for dignosing etc... Principal Investigator: Catherine H. Schulbach Probing the Universe using Joint Chandra and XMM constraints from Clusters of Galaxies Principal Investigator: Catherine H. Schulbach Experimental Simulations of Tropical Cyclone Genesis with a Global Mesoscale Model on Columbia Principal Investigator: Bo-Wen Shen Massively parallel imagery assimilation using the 3D multiscale multicomponent modeling framework Principal Investigator: Bo-Wen Shen Atmospheric Circulation of Giant Planets Principal Investigator: Adam Showman The First Stars and their Impact on Galaxy Formation Principal Investigator: Michael Shull Numerical simulations of astrophysical processes leading to LISA EMRI signals Principal Investigator: Steinn Sigurdsson Particle simulations of magnetic reconnection in the Tail of Earth's magnetosphere Principal Investigator: Mikhail Sitnov Non-Business OGCM and GRACE Applications Principal Investigator: Tony Song Collisional Excitation for Extrasolar Giant and Terrestrial Planet Atmosphere Modeling Principal Investigator: Phillip Stancil Foreign National Access-V Principal Investigator: Robert Stein Solar Magneto-Convection Simulations Principal Investigator: Robert Stein Development of GEOS-5 Atmospheric Assimilation System Principal Investigator: Dr. Max J. Suarez Foreign National Access III Principal Investigator: Dr. Max J. Suarez Applications, Evaluation and Improvement of a Coupled, Global, and Cloud-Resolving Model System Principal Investigator: Wei-Kuo Tao Using Observational Data and 3D Cloud-Resolving Model for Global Models and NASA Satellite Mission Principal Investigator: Wei-Kuo Tao Magnetospheric substorms and geomagnetic storms using the RCM-E Principal Investigator: Frank Toffoletto Elements in Operation of Solar Global Dynamo Principal Investigator: Juri Toomre Columbia computer time in support of Aura and AIM Principal Investigator: Owen B Toon Mars Science Laboratory Reaction Control Systems Principal Investigator: John Van Norman MSL RCS Principal Investigator: John Van Norman Exploiting Satellite Observations and Cloud-Resolving Models to Improve GCM Representation of etc.. Principal Investigator: Duane Waliser Evaluating the utility of space-borne water isotope measurments Principal Investigator: Christopher Walker Large-Scale Hybrid Numerical Simulations of the Dynamics of the Earth's Magnetosphere Principal Investigator: Richard A. Wolf Modeling Gamma-Ray Bursts in Massive Stars Principal Investigator: Stan Woosley Modeling the Explosion of Type la Supernovae Principal Investigator: Stan Woosley MSL Aerothermodynamics Analysis Principal Investigator: Michael J. Wright ARPS Simulations for Gravity Wave Research Principal Investigator: Dong Wu Numerical Simulation of gravity Waves Principal Investigator: Dong Wu Implementation and Vigorous Evaluation of a Super Parameterization Approach Using EOS Satellite etc Principal Investigator: Kuan-Man Xu Study of the properties and radiative forcin of global ice clouds using the synergetic ECT... Principal Investigator: Ping Yang Modeling the large-Scale heliosphere Principal Investigator: Gary Zank Computational Support for Project Title: Mesoscale Carbon Data Assimilation for NACP Principal Investigator: Dusanka Zupanski Modeling gravitational wave sources for LISA Principal Investigator: Jim vanMeter + Feedback + Site Help + NASA Privacy Statement, Disclaimer, and Accessibility Certification Editor: Jill Dunbar Webmaster: John Hardman NASA Official: Rupak Biswas + Contact NAS Last Updated: May 15, 2008