G.J. Cats

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Contact information

Address:

Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
P.O. Box 201
3730 AE De Bilt
The Netherlands

Fax: +31 30 210407

E-mail: cats@knmi.nl

Current projects

• System Manager of the international HIRLAM project.
• Senior Researcher at KNMI, working on the development and implementation of Numerical Weather Prediction models and all related aspects.
• Senior Scientist at Leiden University, working on the project `A parallel HIRLAM weather forecasting model'

1. Dick Dee and Gerard Cats, Tuning OI covariance parameters: Experiments with the HIRLAM system, In proceedings of the WMO Second International Symposium on Assimilation of Observations in Meteorology and Oceanography, Tokyo, 13-17 March 1995, pp 225-228.
2. Lex Wolters, Gerard Cats, Nils Gustafsson, and Tomas Wilhelmsson, Data-Parallel Numerical Methods in a Weather Forecast Model, accepted for publication in proceedings of the CWI-RUU Symposia on Massively Parallel Computing and Applications, to appear in a special issue of the IMACS Journal on Applied Numerical Mathematics; also Technical Report 94-48, Department of Computer Science, Leiden University, December 1994.
3. Lex Wolters, Gerard Cats, and Nils Gustafsson, Data-Parallel Numerical Weather Forecasting, accepted for publication in a special issue of Scientific Programming on `Application Performance Analysis'; also Technical Report 94-49, Department of Computer Science, Leiden University, December 1994.
4. Lex Wolters, Gerard Cats, Nils Gustaffson, and Tomas Wilhelmsson, Dataparallel Semi-Lagrangian Numerical Weather Forecasting, in proceedings of Frontiers '95, the Fifth Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, February 6-9 1995, McLean, Virginia, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press, 164-170; also Technical Report 94-50, Department of Computer Science, Leiden University, November 1994.
5. Lex Wolters, Robert A. van Engelen, Gerard Cats, Nils Gustaffson, and Tomas Wilhelmsson, A Data-Parallel HIRLAM Forecast Model, to appear in proceedings of the Sixth ECMWF Workshop on the Use of Parallel Processors in Meteorology, Nov 21-25, 1994, Reading, UK; also Technical Report 94-47, Department of Computer Science, Leiden University, November 1994.
6. Lex Wolters, Gerard Cats, and Nils Gustafsson, Limited Area Numerical Weather Forecasting on a Massively Parallel Computer, in proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, July 11-15 1994, Manchester, England, ACM press, 289-296; also Technical Report 94-16, Department of Computer Science, Leiden University, April 1994.
7. Gerard Cats, Nils Gustafsson, and Lex Wolters, Finite Difference and Spectral Models for Numerical Weather Forecasting on a Massively Parallel Computer, Technical Report 93-07, Department of Computer Science, Leiden University, April 1993.
8. Lex Wolters and Gerard Cats, A Parallel Implementation of the HIRLAM Model, in G.-R. Hoffmann and T. Kauranne (eds.), Parallel Supercomputing in Atmospheric Science, proceedings of the Fifth ECMWF Workshop on the Use of Parallel Processors in Meteorology, World Scientific Publ., 1993, 486-499; also Technical Report 92-29, Department of Computer Science, Leiden University, December 1992.
9. Lex Wolters, Gerard Cats, and Harry A.G. Wijshoff, Programming Environments for Atmosphere and Ocean Circulation Simulation on Massively Parallel Computers, in proceedings of the DPRI Symposium, Boston, April 1992.