The green and yellowish patches are areas of photosynthesis enhanced by previous precipitation. Darker blue areas indicate the effects of solar attenuation and precipitation due to passing clouds. It's fascinating to see all the things you can learn through these simulations. For simulations of Hurricane Georges at 5-km grid spacing, RAMS ran on 64 processors of Blue Horizon. RAMS is designed with a multiple grid nesting scheme that lets it solve the model equations simultaneously on any number of interacting computational meshes of differing spatial resolution.
RAMS provides options that allow researchers to tailor it to a range of applications.
The code contains features ranging from non-hydrostatic codes, resolution from less than one meter to 100 km, domains from a few km to the entire globe, and a suite of physical options. This allows users to select appropriate options for different spatial scales, meteorological problems or applications, and locations. It's amazing what we are able to do now. Five years ago I didn't think these things were possible. And this evolution keeps teaching us new things.