Ronald Stenz
The Impacts of Hydrometeor Centrifuging on Tornado Dynamics
(bafi)Jun 2016 - Dec 2019
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Ronald Stenz: The Impacts of Hydrometeor Centrifuging on Tornado Dynamics
Blue Waters Symposium 2017, May 17, 2017
Blue Waters Graduate Fellow: Ronald Stenz
Oct 13, 2016
For my research, I am trying to determine the impacts that precipitation centrifuging has on tornado dynamics. I have always been fascinated with severe weather and tornadoes, which inspired me to study atmospheric sciences. I am studying this particular topic because in numerical simulations of tornadoes, an unrealistic rain blob appears in the core of simulated tornadoes. My goal is to make these simulations more realistic with a centrifuging algorithm, and to determine the resulting effect on tornado dynamics. Since gathering accurate and dense observations around a tornado is incredibly difficult and dangerous, numerical modeling is a major tool used to understand tornadoes. For my research I use a model called CM1 to numerically simulate tornadoes so we can study how they form, what environments they form in, and what factors lead to intensification or weakening of tornadoes.
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Ten PhD students from across the country selected as Blue Waters Graduate Fellows
Apr 19, 2016
Ten outstanding computational science PhD students from across the country have been selected to receive Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships for 2016-2017. The fellowship program, now in its third year, provides substantial support and the opportunity to leverage the petascale power of National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois’s Blue Waters supercomputer to advance their research. The awards are made to outstanding PhD graduate students who have decided to incorporate high performance computing and data analysis into their research.
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