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December 16, 2016

Extraordinary animation reveals ocean's role in El Ninos
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 16, 2016
Australian researchers from the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science have produced a remarkable high-resolution animation of the largest El Nino ever recorded. It is so detailed that it took 30,000 computer hours crunching ocean model data on Australia's most powerful supercomputer, Raijin, before it could be extracted by the NCI visualisation team to produce the animation. The animation looks beneath the ocean surface to reveal th ... read more

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