Why does the scientific community need a new supercomputing center?
The atmosphere and Earth system are highly complex. Scientists need to conduct an extraordinary number of calculations to answer such questions as the likely locations of the most damaging winds in a hurricane or the subsurface forces in the Sun that can cause geomagnetic storms on Earth. As supercomputers become increasingly powerful, scientists can study these processes in more detail, viewing smaller structures such as areas of rotation that can spawn tornadoes within a larger thunderstorm.
