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Earth Science
picture of dry crops

HPC-powered modelling shows heat, animal illness and drought risks could affect NZ agriculture with changing climate

"The new maps are a powerful step forward in understanding and displaying the effects of climate change for the primary sector in New Zealand."
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Earth Science
A visualisation of the climate model being run.

Enabling portability of a climate code through containerisation

"This project gave me the opportunity to become much more familiar with the infrastructure and software underlying the model, which will be valuable experience for the future."
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Earth Science
Picture of water drops hitting the surface of a lake.

Plugging memory leaks in a hydrology code

"We are very grateful to the NeSI team for helping me locate and fix memory leak issues and a performance bottleneck in TopNet."
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Earth Science
A picture of someone sitting in a cave in French Polynesia.

Understanding future climate change through the lens of past climates

"The support received from NeSI significantly contributed to our research capabilities and productivity."
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Earth Science
Figure: Surface air temperature (deg. K) modelled in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica

Building software solutions for studying air–ice–ocean interactions

"We are very grateful to the NeSI team for helping us to automatically build our coupled model in a container, allowing us to be resilient and circumvent any platform changes/updates."
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Earth Science
View of the Earth from space, with a binary grid overlaid. Image by Yassay, Pixabay.

Improving the vector field representation in next generation climate simulations

"The benefits are of particular relevance to the regridding of atmospheric data on the globe."
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Earth Science
Photo of stock in a fenced dry area.

New tool revolutionising drought forecasts

“This tool enables us to give more frequent and district-level predictions of rainfall, dryness, and drought. Providing advanced warning of future dry spells will be invaluable.”
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Earth Science
Footbridge damaged by flood, Te Auaunga creek walkway. Auckland 28 January 2023. Photo by Paul Left.

A scalable digital elevation builder for flood mapping

"NeSI is really the only platform for producing our hydrologic condition digital elevation models at the national scale."
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Earth Science
Photo of a riparian strip. Credit Dave Allen, NIWA.

Tools to better understand and address water quality issues

"The team at NeSI worked with us to provide a solution to achieve significant speed-up in legacy R- and FORTRAN-based code for catchment model runs."
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Earth Science
Photo of NIWA's Baring Head atmospheric station. Photo by Dave Allen, NIWA.

Automating workflows to help scientists address crucial carbon cycle questions

"The transformation of our CYLC setup into a fully automated and more flexible workflow has had a remarkable impact on our research processes."
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Earth Science