GALES described in BAMS
An article about GALES is accepted for publication in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. The article touches upon the subject of porting a simulation to CUDA, but more extensively discusses the advantages and disadvantages as well as the possibilities of atmospheric simulations on the GPU using CUDA.
The article is currently being processed and will soon be published under the title:
J. Schalkwijk; Griffith, E.; Post, F; and Jonker, H.J.J.; High performance simulations of turbulent clouds on a desktop PC: exploiting the GPU, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2012 (in press)
For a more thorough discussion of the physics and numerics of the model, note that GALES is 'under the hood' equivalent to the FORTRAN90-version of our Atmospheric LES, DALES. This model is described in:
T. Heus; van Heerwaarden, C. C.; Jonker, H. J. J.; Pier Siebesma, A.; Axelsen, S.; van den Dries, K.; Geoffroy, O.; Moene, A. F.; Pino, D.; de Roode, S. R. & Vilà-Guerau de Arellano, J. Formulation of the Dutch Atmospheric Large-Eddy Simulation (DALES) and overview of its applications Geoscientific Model Development, 2010, 3, 415-444