Hello, A new project on the LCRC cluster has been requested. Please forward the information on to the LCRC Allocation sub-committee. Applicant's name: Ramesh Balakrishnan Applicant's institution: ANL Applicant's division: LCF Project Name: WRF-NRCM Project title: WRF-Nested Regional Climate Model Simulation of a Hurricane Associated funding: internal Other Systems: Blue Gene/P Science: Climate Modeling Project description: Ramesh Balakrishnan (PI) is requesting an allocation to do nested regional climate modeling (NRCM) with the WRF code from NCAR. The NRCM combines the strengths of NCAR's WRF model and NCAR's Community Climate System Model into an instrument that will allow for fundamental progress on the understanding and prediction of regional climate variability and change. In particular, embedding WRF within CCSM will allow scientists to resolve processes that occur at the regional scale, as well as the influence of those processes on the large-scale climate, thereby improving the fidelity of climate change simulations and their utility for local and regional planning. The PI requests that John Michalakes (NCAR), who has an MCS account, be added to this project (after its approved, of course). Project URL: http://www.vets.ucar.edu/vg/WRF-NRCM/index.html Requested allocation: 299999 Justification: We have asked for an allocation that is just shy of 300,000 core hours. At this time, the PI is unable to provide a justification for a larger allocation. However, there is every expectation that the allocation required to complete this study will be a couple of multiples of the 300,000 hour limit. We will request an increase in our allocation after we have ported and benchmarked the WRF-NRCM code on Fusion. The requester has used 18 hours of their initial startup project. In addition to approving an initial amount, please specify a Category and Subcategory for this project. For a list of the current selection of approved categories, please see: https://wiki.lcrc.anl.gov/wiki/Processes/Categories Once the Allocation committee has approved the project, please go to the Project Management page to create it: https://accounts.lcrc.anl.gov/projects.php Thank You, The LCRC Accounts System