Larissa Reames

2018

Larissa J. Reames and David J. Stensrud (2018): Influence of a Great Plains Urban Environment on a Simulated Supercell, Monthly Weather Review, American Meteorological Society, Vol 146, Num 5, pp1437-1462

2017

Larissa Reames (2017): Simulated effects of urban environments on the dynamics of a supercell thunderstorm, The University of Oklahoma Libraries, Oklahoma State University Libraries, and the University of Central Oklahoma Max Chambers Library, SHAREOK Repository, Vol OU dissertations
Larissa J. Reames (2017): Diurnal Variations in Severe Weather Forecast Parameters of Rapid Update Cycle-2 Tornado Proximity Environments, Weather and Forecasting, American Meteorological Society, Vol 32, Num 2, pp743-761

2017

Larissa Reames (2017): Simulated effects of urban environments on the dynamics of a supercell thunderstorm, 2017 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp278-279

2016

Larissa Reames (2016): Sensitivity of Simulated Urban-Atmosphere Interactions in Oklahoma City to Urban Parameterization, 2016 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp284-285

NCSA releases 2017 Blue Waters Project Annual Report Detailing Innovative Research and Scientific Breakthroughs


Sep 1, 2017

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign released today the 2017 Blue Waters Project Annual Report. For the project’s fourth annual report, research teams were invited to present highlights from their research that leveraged Blue Waters, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) most powerful system for sustained computation and data analysis. Spanning economics to engineering, geoscience to space science, Blue Waters has accelerated research and impact across an enormous range of science and engineering disciplines throughout its more than 4-year history covered by the report series. This year is no different.


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UIUC’s Supercomputer Has a Projected $1B Impact On Illinois’ Economy


May 12, 2017

Nestled on the outskirts of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus — at the corner of Oak Street and St. Mary’s Road — is Blue Waters, a supercomputer that was first instituted as a result of a 2007 National Science Foundation grant and an initial $60 million investment from the State of Illinois. A report released this past week on the economic impact of this supercomputer — on the UIUC campus, its five surrounding counties, as well as nationwide spillover effects — puts a whole new meaning to the term “return on investment.”


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How layout of urban areas affect supercell thunderstorms


Sep 30, 2016

Many things go into consideration when planning a city layout, roads, transportation needs, location relative to natural features. However, one thing has not previously been considered is the shape of the city and how that shape affects the severity of natural disasters, such as extreme thunderstorms or tornadoes. With the help of Blue Waters at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Larissa Reames, a Ph.D student at the University of Oklahoma and a 2015-2016 NCSA Blue Waters Graduate Fellow, is undertaking exciting meteorology research on the effects of supercell thunderstorms and how the specific layout of a city can affect a storm’s impact.


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Six PhD students from across the country selected as Blue Waters Graduate Fellows


May 4, 2015

Six outstanding computational science PhD students from across the country have been selected to receive Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships for 2015-2016. The fellowship program, now in its second year, provides graduate students in diverse fields with substantial support and the opportunity to leverage the petascale power of NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer to advance their research.


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