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Modeling Chaotic Storms
![[article image]](/system/assets/0000/6330/101711_CACMpg17_Modeling-Chaotic2.large.jpg?1319044056&1319044055 "hexagonal grid for global weather models")
A hexagonal grid used by several next-generation global weather models. This particular grid is based on a 480-kilometer model. The next generation of weather models, driven by GPU technology, will be run at a scale of 2 to 4 kilometers, making neighborhood-level accuracy possible.
Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory
Scientists say improvements to extreme-weather prediction are possible with new weather models and a reinvention of the modeling technologies used to process them.
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