On-Demand Lake Circulation Modeling.ppt

On-Demand Lake Circulation Modeling Chin WuNobuaki Kimura Environmental Fluid Mechanics LaboratoryUniversity of Wisconsin On-Demand Circulation Modeling Hindcast: Enter a date/time range. Met data extracted from CFL database. Model launched. Results displayed. Goals Develop a reusable solution for high-quality lake circulation modeling with validation. Provide historical results on demand for analysis. Support data assimilation, coupled models, etc. Support pluggable models. Support out-sourcing most ICT deployment to remote site. Lake sites do not have the expertise, so they just provide the data. Data Sources Model inputs Meterological data Water temperature etc. Model outputs (validation or assimilation) Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) Provides 3D flow vectors of a vertical column of water. One vector for each depth. Measured waves Subsurface, via high-frequence temperature fluctuations. Surface Challenges Cyberinfrastructure is a social/institutional problem as much as a technical problem. E.g., technically, interoperability is a solved problem. Not a human-computer-interaction problem, but a human-institution-computer interaction challenge. (“Institution” in the broad sense.) Two-way interaction, institutions can themselves be changed. Iterative Develop rapid prototype, get feedback, repeat Collaborative Avoid over-engineering, be pragmatic. Instrumented buoys and locations Dataflow Pre- Post-processing of the circulation model The way to drive the 3D circulation model Computation using the Model Client web browser initiates an Modeling Animation (MA) Request Server side will generate a request file corresponding to this request (this project using Java Server Pages), putting it into a request directory (Works like a request queue) , then update one request record into the local database server. It’s default status is “pending” Client side hold the browser, waiting for MA finish Server side, a daemon process called “checkrequest” will check if