Interactive Statistical Analysis of Complex Mantle Flows with the Web |
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Authors: | Zachary A Garbow Nicolas R Olson Erik O Sevre and David A Yuen |
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Institution: | (1) Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 1200 Washington Ave S., Minneapolis, MN, 55415-1227, United States |
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Abstract: | Up to now, all of the figures in mantle convection literature have been presented in a static manner, where the fields at
one scale are shown on a printed page . This is no longer possible with the spatial resolution increasing at an ever rising
clip and the appearance of the issue of multi-scale structures. Because of the onslaught of data-flooding and the growing
complexity of strongly time-varying physical fields from compressible mantle convection, such as the adiabaticity, and other
thermo dynamical heating functions, we can no longer afford to display and look at the results in the same static way as in
a book. We have developed a new approach for interrogating data coming out from numerical simulations. This is based on an
interactive two-dimensional map which is used over the WEB with a client-server paradigm. We have applied this to investigate
mantle convection flows in both two-and three-dimensional situations. The distributions of thermal anomalies found are no
longer Gaussian but sometimes have long tails, especially near the edges of plume heads. The same is also found for the distribution
of mechanical heating, which can be quite skewed. Our experiences with this new interactive mode of data-query have shown
both the educational and scientific importance of using the world wide web media to quiz handily the data taken from large-scale
numerical simulations. |
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