Earth Science

Research teams at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have produced the first fully self-consistent models of the Sun’s tachocline—the ultra-thin boundary layer between the radiative interior and the differentially rotating convection zone—using NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer. Postdoctoral researcher Loren Matilsky and colleagues ran “hero” simulations over 15 months, totaling tens of millions of compute hours, which […]