The 2020 Virtual ESMD/E3SM PI Meeting
The 2020 Earth System Model Development (ESMD) program area Principle Investigator (PI) and E3SM Annual All-Hands meeting was held October 26-29, 2020. The presentations are available via the Agenda.
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FEATURE STORY
From Program Manager
Xujing Davis presents news about E3SM and DOE >>E3SM on Fugaku
Scientists test running E3SM on Fugaku, currently the fastest supercomputer in the world >>E3SM Leadership Meeting
The E3SM Leadership Team met virtually to discuss current and anticipated issues >>CMIP6's ScenarioMIP
A new paper shows temperature and precipitation changes across CMIP6's SSP-based scenarios >>
BRIEF
Spring All-Hands Meeting
E3SM will hold its 2021 Spring All-Hands Meeting virtually on June 1, 3, 8, and 9 >>ESMD-E3SM Meeting Report
The report from the 2020 ESMD-E3SM PI Meeting has been published >>White Papers Available
The 150 AI4ESP white papers have been posted to the initiative's website >>Climate Resilience
E3SM scientists presented at the America Resilient Climate Conference in April 2021 >>
SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
Tropical Cyclones in E3SM
New analysis assesses the realism and biases of tropical cyclones at various resolutions in E3SMv1 >>Interface Flux Recovery
More accurate estimates of interface flux increases the robustness of coupled-system simulations >>Precipitation Improved
Coupling a stochastic convective parameterization with the ZM scheme improves modeling rain >>Undesirable Sensitivities
A method for attributing temporal-resolution error could improve weather and climate models >>
RELEASES
Lt Rain Impacts Aerosols
Light rain disproportionately influences aerosol burden (aerosol mass) >>Aerosol Overestimation
Biomass burning (BB) aerosols in most climate models lead to an overestimate of warming >>ARM-Diags in E3SM-Diags
ARM Diagnostics has been integrated into the E3SM Diagnostics Package >>COVID-19 CMIP6 Data
E3SM data now available for simulations with & without COVID-related emissions reductions >>
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
E3SM Model Cited Often
The E3SMv1 standard resolution summary paper is one of JAMES' top cited papers >>Roberts Receives
Andrew Roberts received the 2020 Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for JAMES >>Koch WPO Director
Dorothy Koch is the new director of NOAA’s Weather Program Office (WPO) >>Recent E3SM Publicity
E3SM has been in the news several times over the past few months >>
Major Research Directions
Water Cycle
Research focused on understanding and developing the capability to project changes in water within the Earth's system by more realistic portrayals of hydrologic features >>
BGC and Energy
E3SM is examining how more complete treatments of nutrient cycles, land-use/land-cover, and land disturbances such as fires affect biogeochemical cycles. >>
Performance
Next generation model development, high performance algorithms and exploration of parallel optimizations targeting upcoming exascale DOE computer facilities. >>
Cryosphere-Ocean
The project is conducting detailed modeling of the interactions between the ocean and the Antarctic ice sheet, including ocean flows under the ice shelves, to investigate the... >>
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E3SM is a fully coupled, state-of-the-science Earth system model (ESM) capable of global high definition configuration (25km atmosphere, 12km river model, variable 18 to 6km ocean model, >> |
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Data |
Released global Coupled model simulation output data from E3SM target experiments, both the low and high definition configurations. >> |
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Tools |
Software applications for coupled and component model diagnostic, evaluation and analysis, data transfer, manipulation, regridding and post processing. Model development tools and unit >> |
