Chandrajit Bajaj
Left image shows potential temperature and see surface height. Understanding the general circulation of the ocean in the global climate system is critical to our ability to diagnose and predict climate changes and their effects.

Additional images for Global Oceanographic Visualization
Additional images for Earth Simulator Project
Links to Movies: Oceanography



Collaborators
Collaborator list

Our Computational Visualization Center, is also part of a multi-institutional planning grant NIH-P20 RR020647-01, Computational Center for Biomolecular Complexes (C2BC), linking the National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Baylor College of Medicine (Dr. Wah Chiu), the PDB and Structural Biology research, Rutgers University (Dr. Helen Berman), and the Molecular Graphics Laboratory, The Scripps Research Institute (Dr. Art Olson). The principal aim is to develop a virtual center spanning the four institutions to foster computational techniques and tools for large macromolecular structural biology.


Our Computational Visualization Center, has collabrated with Earth Simulator Center(Dr. Tetsuya Sato), Yokohama, Japan for extremely large dataset (22GB). Their transient oceanographic dataset consists of 5 variables: temperature, salinity, U, V, W (velocity) and 4 timesteps spread over 3days. Our enhanced software is applied to a range of oceanographic datasets received from the Earth Simulator Center, and several graphics and movies are summarized on our project webpage for the Earth Simulator Project.