OpenViSUS Conversion of NASA's ECCO Project's 1/48° MITgcm Simulation

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The LLC4320 ocean dataset is the product of a 14-month simulation of ocean circulation and dynamics using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's General Circulation Model on a lat-lon-cap grid. Comprising extensive scalar data such as temperature, salinity, heat flux, radiation, and velocity, the dataset exceeds 4 PB and can potentially improve our understanding of global ocean circulation and its role in Earth's climate system.

In order to make this dataset more accessible and easier to visualize, the National Science Data Fabric has processed the raw data into the ViSUS data format using their OpenViSUS toolsuite.

It will be used in the 2026 IEEE SciVis Contest to demonstrate cutting-edge technologies for working with petascale climate data provided by NASA.

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