2012 Participants
Alex Brown
Current Landscape Evolution Models (LEM) have been applied for coarse spatial resolutions over short periods of time (years-centuries). However, when applied to high spatial resolutions over long periods of time (tens of thousands of years) they are computationally challenging, estimated to take thousands of years. This project involves reformulating and extending an existing LEM to address this problem; creating a highly optimised model exploiting modern coding techniques and parallelization. Previous work has been done on this project which highlighted the need for memory efficient management of data structures and to finish the parallelisation of the code.
Funding source: Newcastle University