Philip Jones

Projects

POP

Phil continues to be the lead software developer of the Parallel Ocean Program (POP). As such, he is responsible (for better or worse) for the software design, maintenance and user support of the model. He also is responsible for obtaining the best computational performance of the model on every available architecture, a task made easier by his collaboration with several colleagues (thanks Pat, John, Kah-Song, Yoshi!).

SCRIP

Phil created the Spherical Coordinate Remapping and Interpolation Package (SCRIP) and continues to make this code more robust and accurate. The main focus recently has been to incorporate the SCRIP functionality into the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) and other models like the CSU geodesic model.

ESMF

As described above, Phil is working on the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF). His contributions are mainly focused on regridding modules, but he has also been active in the design and implementation of the Grid modules and grid descriptions in ESMF.

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Pedigree (Education)

Ph.D. 1991: University of Colorado, Boulder

Astrophysical, Planetary and Atmospheric Science with a thesis entitled Compressible Convection and Pulsations on Massively Parallel Computers

B.S. 1985: Iowa State University

Physics and Mathematics with distinction.

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Positions Held

Sep 2003 -- present

Project Leader, Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice Modeling

May 1993 -- present

Staff Member, Theoretical Division, Theoretical Fluid Dynamics Group (T-3), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Sep 1991 -- May 1993

Post-doctoral Research Associate, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Geoanalysis Group (formerly EES-5, no longer exists), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

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Publications

Jones, P.W., Worley, P.H., Yoshida, Y., White, J.B. III, Levesque, J., 2003: Practical Performance Portability in the Parallel Ocean Program (POP), Concurrency Comput. Prac. Exper., in press.

Randall, D.A., Ringler, T.D., Heikes, R.P., Jones, P. and Baumgardner, J., 2002: Climate Modeling with Spherical Geodesic Grids, Computing in Science Eng., 4, 32-41.

Baker, R.D., Schubert, G. and Jones, P.W., 2000: Convectively Generated Internal Gravity Waves in the Lower Atmosphere of Venus. Part II: Mean Wind Shear and Wave-Mean Flow Interaction, J. Atm. Sci., 57, 200-215.

Baker, R.D., Schubert, G. and Jones, P.W., 2000: Convectively Generated Internal Gravity Waves in the Lower Atmosphere of Venus. Part I: No Wind Shear, J. Atm. Sci., 57, 184-199.

Jones, P.W., 1999: First- and Second-order Conservative Remapping Schemes for Grids in Spherical Coordinates, Mon. Weath. Rev., 127, 2204-2210.

Baker, R.D., Schubert, G. and Jones, P.W., 1999: High Rayleigh Number Compressible Convection in Venus' Atmosphere: Penetration, Entrainment, and Turbulence, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 3815-3832.

Jones, P.W., Malone, R.C. and Lai, C.A., 1998: The Los Alamos Coupled Model, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Software Engineering and Code Design in Parallel Meteorological and Oceanographic Applications, ed. M. O'Keefe and C. Kerr, NASA Publication GSFC/CP-1998-206860.

Jones, P.W., 1998: The Los Alamos Parallel Ocean Program (POP) and Coupled Model on MPP and Clustered SMP Computers, Making its Mark: Proceedings of the 7th ECMWF Workshop on the Use of Parallel Processors in Meteorology, ed. G. R. Hoffmann and N. Kreitz (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing).

Baker, R.D., Schubert, G. and Jones, P.W., 1998: Cloud-level Penetrative Compressible Convection in Venus' Atmosphere, J. Atm. Sci., 55, 3-18.

Hayashi, Y., Golder, D.G. and Jones, P.W., 1997: Tropical Gravity Waves Simulated by High-Resolution SKYHI General Circulation Models, J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 75, 1125-1139.

Jones, P.W., Hamilton, K.P. and Wilson, R.J., 1996: A Very High-Resolution General Circulation Model Simulation of the Global Circulation in Austral Winter, J. Atm. Sci., 54, 1107-1116.

Jones, P.W., Kerr, C.L. and Hemler, R.S., 1995: Practical Considerations in Development of a Parallel SKYHI General Circulation Model, Parallel Computing, 21, 1677-1694.

Sun, Z.-P., Turco, R.P., Walterscheid, R.L., Venkateswaran, S.V., and Jones, P.W., 1995: Thermospheric Response to Morningside Diffuse Aurora: High-resolution Three-dimensional Simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 23,779-23,793.

Jones, P.W., Merryfield, W., and Toomre, J., 1992: Interaction of Externally-Driven Acoustic Waves with Compressible Convection, In GONG '92: Seismic Investigations of the Sun and Stars, ed. T. Brown (San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific).

Jones, P.W., Merryfield, W., and Toomre, J., 1991: Interaction of Acoustic Oscillations with Time-dependent Compressible Convection, In Challenges to Theories of the Structure of Moderate Mass Stars, ed. D.Gough and J.Toomre (Berlin: Springer-Verlag) p. 213.

Jones, P.W., Pesnell, W.D., Hansen, C.J., 1991: A Catalog of Line Profile Variations due to Nonradial Pulsations, Astrophys. J. Supp., in press.

Jones, P.W., Pesnell, W.D., Hansen, C.J. and Kawaler, S.D., 1989: On the Possibility of Detecting Weak Magnetic Fields in Variable White Dwarfs, Astrophys. J., 336, 403-408.

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Personal

Outside of work, Phil spends most of his time with his wife Heather, his son Doug, his daughter Maria and their three dogs Holly, Ivy and Floss. They live in Los Alamos, NM. Phil plays trombone in a variety of groups, including the Los Alamos Symphony, the Los Alamos Big Band, the Quemazon Brass Quartet and the Quint pro Quo brass quintet. He also enjoys golf and skiing.

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