People at NCAR: Peter Hjort Lauritzen

Peter Hjort Lauritzen, Ph.D.

Welcome to my personal home page. I am a Scientist working in the Atmospheric Modeling and Predictability (AMP) Section of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) located in Boulder, Colorado. The mission of our section is to improve our understanding of the global atmosphere and its role in the climate system through modeling and observational studies, and to represent that understanding in the form of improved numerical models of the atmosphere and larger climate system.

I am particularly interested in numerical methods for dynamical cores, that is (roughly speaking), algorithms that approximate the solution to the adiabatic frictionless equations of motion for the atmosphere on resolved scales. For climate models and chemical transport models it is important that local and global balances dictated by physical principles are maintained in the numerical discretizations, for example, in the absence of sources and sinks mass should be conserved both locally and globally. At the same time the algorithm should be efficient on massively parallel supercomputers. Achieving a good balance between accuracy and efficiency is the overall goal of my research.

Last updated: 21-Jan-2008
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