Marcia Branstetter
Computer Science and Mathematics
Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
My research focuses on the role that continental runoff plays in the Earth's
climate system. The major tools used to investigate this are climate
system models, and to do the kind of experiments I want to do requires
high performance computers.
Contents
Some of My Current Projects
- River Transport Model
- CCSM Climate System Model
- Land cover change experimental simulations
- Previous work:
- Topex/Poseidon
Publications
Ganguly, Auroop R., S. Khan, G. Kuhn, Y. Fang, D. J. Erickson, M. L. Branstetter, and G. Ostrouchov, "Climate change,
rainfall extremes, and population at risk", to be presented at the 22nd Conference on Hydrology, 88th Annual
Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, New Orleans, 2008.
Larson, J.W., A.P. Craig, J.B. Drake, D.J. Erickson III, M.L. Branstetter, M.W. Ham, "A massively
parallel dynamical core for continental-to-global scale river transport", 2007.
Branstetter, Marcia L., David J. Erickson, Auroop Ganguly, Gabriel Kuhn, Shiraj Khan, and Christopher T.
Fuller, "Extreme hydrologic events in CCSM3", presented at the Annual CCSM Workshop, Breckenridge, 2007.
Kuhn, Gabriel, Shiraj Khan, Auroop R. Ganguly, and Marcia L. Branstetter, "Geospatial-
temporal dependence among weekly precipitation extremes with applications to observations
and climate model simulations in South America", Advances in Water Resources,
in press, 2007.
Branstetter, Marcia L., David J. Erickson III, Auroop Ganguly, Shiraj Khan, Gabriel Kuhn, George Ostrouchov,
Christopher T. Fuller, "Extreme hydrologic events from an ensemble of CCSM3 climate change simulations",
presented at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 2007.
Branstetter, Marcia L., David J. Erickson III, Jose Hernandez, and Robert J. Oglesby, "Spatial
resolution and precipitation impacts on the magnitude and variability of river discharge
in the CCSM3 control simulation", submitted to Journal of Hydrology, 2007.
Branstetter, Marcia L., David J. Erickson, Steve Ghan, Auroop Ganguly, and Shiraj Khan, "Hydrology in
the IPCC simulations", presented at the Annual CCSM Workshop, Breckenridge, 2006.
Samatova, Nagiza F., Marcia Branstetter, Auroop R. Ganguly, Robert Hettich, Shiraj Kan, Guruprasad
Kora, Jiangtian Li, Xiaosong Ma, Chongle Pan, Arie Shoshani and Srikanth Yoginath, "High performance
statistical computing with parallel R: applications to biology and climate modeling", Journal of Physics:
Conference Series 46 (2006) 505-509.
Erickson, D., M. Branstetter, and R. Oglesby, "Non-linear feedbacks in the future hydrologic cycle", presented
at the 2005 Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, 2005.
Smith, B.T., A.W. King, M.L. Branstetter, C.C. Coutant, P.J. Mulholland,
and M.J. Sale, "The Role of Climate Change in Thermoelectric Cooling Water
Systems," abstract submitted to CCSP Workshop, 2005.
Branstetter, Marcia L., David J. Erickson III, and Robert Oglesby, "Spatial
resolution impacts on the magnitude and variability of continental runoff
in the CCSM3 control simulation," submitted to Journal of Geophysical
Research-Atmosphere, 2005.
Branstetter, Marcia L., David J. Erickson III, and Steve Ghan, "Hydrology
Results from CCSM3 Control and Select IPCC Simulations," presented at the
Annual CCSM Workshop, Breckenridge, 2005.
Pan, F., D.J. Erickson III, M. Branstetter, A.W. King, R.J. Oglesby, M. Wolinsky,
and M.J. Sale, "The effect of soil conductivity on the hydrologic cycle and
surface energy budget in the CCSM2: Implementation of a TOPMODEL concept
in a global GCM," to be submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres,
2005.