scholarly journals FUTURE CHANGE ANALYSIS OF EXTREME FLOODS USING LARGE ENSEMBLE CLIMATE SIMULATION DATA

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuto TACHIKAWA ◽  
Kohei MIYAWAKI ◽  
Tomohiro TANAKA ◽  
Kazuaki YOROZU ◽  
Masaya KATO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Simulation ◽  
Future Change ◽  
Large Ensemble ◽  
Change Analysis ◽  
Simulation Data ◽  
Extreme Floods

scholarly journals Evaluating Lossy Data Compression on Climate Simulation Data within a Large Ensemble

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison H. Baker ◽  
Dorit M. Hammerling ◽  
Sheri A. Mickleson ◽  
Haiying Xu ◽  
Martin B. Stolpe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Compression ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Earth System Model ◽  
System Model ◽  
Climate Simulation ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Large Ensemble ◽  
Simulation Data

Abstract. High-resolution earth system model simulations generate enormous data volumes, and retaining the data from these simulations often strains institutional storage resources. Further, these exceedingly large storage requirements negatively impact science objectives by forcing reductions in data output frequency, simulation length, or ensemble size, for example. To lessen data volumes from the Community Earth System Model (CESM), we advocate the use of lossy data compression techniques. While lossy data compression does not exactly preserve the original data (as lossless compression does), lossy techniques have an advantage in terms of smaller storage requirements. To preserve the integrity of the scientific simulation data, the effects of lossy data compression on the original data should, at a minimum, not be statistically distinguishable from the natural variability of the climate system, and previous preliminary work with data from CESM has shown this goal to be attainable. However, to ultimately convince climate scientists that it is acceptable to use lossy data compression, we provide climate scientists with access to publicly available climate data that has undergone lossy data compression. In particular, we report on the results of a lossy data compression experiment with output from the CESM Large Ensemble (CESM-LE) Community Project, in which we challenge climate scientists to examine features of the data relevant to their interests, and attempt to identify which of the ensemble members have been compressed and reconstructed. We find that while detecting distinguishing features is certainly possible, the compression effects noticeable in these features are often unimportant or disappear in post-processing analyses. In addition, we perform several analyses that directly compare the original data to the reconstructed data to investigate the preservation, or lack thereof, of specific features critical to climate science. Overall, we conclude that applying lossy data compression to climate simulation data is both advantageous in terms of data reduction and generally acceptable in terms of effects on scientific results.

scholarly journals Evaluating lossy data compression on climate simulation data within a large ensemble

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 4381-4403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison H. Baker ◽  
Dorit M. Hammerling ◽  
Sheri A. Mickelson ◽  
Haiying Xu ◽  
Martin B. Stolpe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Compression ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Earth System Model ◽  
System Model ◽  
Climate Simulation ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Large Ensemble ◽  
Simulation Data

Abstract. High-resolution Earth system model simulations generate enormous data volumes, and retaining the data from these simulations often strains institutional storage resources. Further, these exceedingly large storage requirements negatively impact science objectives, for example, by forcing reductions in data output frequency, simulation length, or ensemble size. To lessen data volumes from the Community Earth System Model (CESM), we advocate the use of lossy data compression techniques. While lossy data compression does not exactly preserve the original data (as lossless compression does), lossy techniques have an advantage in terms of smaller storage requirements. To preserve the integrity of the scientific simulation data, the effects of lossy data compression on the original data should, at a minimum, not be statistically distinguishable from the natural variability of the climate system, and previous preliminary work with data from CESM has shown this goal to be attainable. However, to ultimately convince climate scientists that it is acceptable to use lossy data compression, we provide climate scientists with access to publicly available climate data that have undergone lossy data compression. In particular, we report on the results of a lossy data compression experiment with output from the CESM Large Ensemble (CESM-LE) Community Project, in which we challenge climate scientists to examine features of the data relevant to their interests, and attempt to identify which of the ensemble members have been compressed and reconstructed. We find that while detecting distinguishing features is certainly possible, the compression effects noticeable in these features are often unimportant or disappear in post-processing analyses. In addition, we perform several analyses that directly compare the original data to the reconstructed data to investigate the preservation, or lack thereof, of specific features critical to climate science. Overall, we conclude that applying lossy data compression to climate simulation data is both advantageous in terms of data reduction and generally acceptable in terms of effects on scientific results.

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