FEATURE STORY
From Interim Manager
The E3SM project continues to make good progress towards its goals >>Diurnal Cycle Modeling
Scientists more accurately model the diurnal cycle of precipitation >>Can We Switch Computers?
Climate reproducibility tests show NERSC's Edison and Cori are statistically indistinguishable >>E3SM SCM Model
ARM and ASR programs support the evaluation and development of E3SM’s single-column model >>
BRIEF
Career Opportunities
Check current career openings in earth system sciences >>Employment Opportunity
NWS seeks scientists to manage the development and implementation of advanced model capabilities >>CMIP6 Data Available
E3SM's DECK data in CMIP6 format is now available via the ESGF website >>Antarctic Work Featured
BER Website Features E3SM Antarctic Ice Sheet Modeling >>
SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
Amazon CO2 Fertilization
Amazon forest response to CO2 fertilization is dependent on plant phosphorus acquisition >>New KPP Parametrization
A new, simpler configuration of KPP parametrization is evaluated against LES results >>Formation of Polynyas
Study of triggers for formation of Maud Rise polynyas in eddy-resolving Earth System Model >>Uncertainty in Soil BGC
Implications of structural uncertainty in soil BGC on climate and CO2 concentration >>
RELEASES
PIO2 + ADIOS
The latest version of PIO incorporates ADIOS and yields performance improvements >>NCO's Vertical Regridding
The latest NCO 4.8.1 release supports vertical regridding >>VCDAT 2.0 Now Available
A new version of VCDAT is available that capitalizes on the power of Jupyter Notebooks >>E3SM Diagnostics v1.5.0
New release features containerization and support for time-series of observational data >>
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
IMUM Ocean Meeting
Multi-scale (Un)-structured mesh numerical Modeling workshop in Septermber in NM >>July SciDAC Meeting
SciDAC scientists gathered in Rockville, MD in July 2019 for a technical meeting >>Spring All-Hands Meeting
Researchers met in Westminster, CO in March 2019 for the first Phase 2 all-hands meeting >>2019 E3SM Spring Awards
Dr. Gary Geernaert, Director of CESD, DOE BER, presented the exceptional contribution awards >>
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... >>
 | Model | 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, >> |
 | Data | Released global Coupled model simulation output data from E3SM target experiments, both the low and high definition configurations. >> |
 | Tools | Software applications for coupled and component model diagnostic, evaluation and analysis, data transfer, manipulation, regridding and post processing. Model development tools and unit >> |
