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.
E3SM t-shirts and accessories available online until 11/25/2020.
FEATURE STORY
From Program Manager
Xujing Davis presents news about E3SM and DOE >>Introducing HOMMEXX-NH
HOMME Non-Hydrostatic Dycore at 3 km Resolution Achieves 0.97 SYPD on Summit >>BGC Overview Paper
Key paper documenting the E3SM Version 1.1 BGC configuration published >>AGU Special Collection
The E3SM AGU Special Collection is now complete >>
BRIEF
ESMD-E3SM Meeting Review
Reflections on the ESMD-E3SM Principal Investigator virtual meeting >>E3SM at AGU 2020
E3SM will be well represented at the 2020 Fall AGU Meeting >>Recent Publicity
E3SM has been in the news several times over the past few months >>Water Cycle Viz
The project focuses on precipitation from storm tracks and supercell thunderstorms >>
SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
AMOC in CESM & E3SM
Role of AMOC in Two Coupled Models >>Include Soil Erosion
Earth system models that ignore soil erosion are unlikely to realistically predict future land >>Land Cover Uncertainty
Initial land cover uncertainty contributes to carbon and temperature uncertainties >>Extreme Ice Shelf Loss
ABUMIP investigates the ‘end-member’ scenario of total loss of all Antarctic ice shelves >>
RELEASES
Unified Environment
A new version of E3SM-Unified has been released on the e3sm anaconda channel >>CDAT Update
A new release is available for the Community Data Analysis Tools (CDAT) >>Zstash Capabilities
Zstash, a parallel archiving tool, can now archive files locally >>SCORPIO - Parallel I/O
The I/O library is used by all model components in DOE’s E3SM >>
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Jacob Bjerknes Lecture
Ruby Leung has been named the AGU Jacob Bjerknes Lecturer >>Outstanding Achievements
Andrew Bradley, Patrick Worley, Aaron Donahue, & Darin Comeau won Outstanding Achievement Awards >>Best Poster Award
Chris Terai et al. won the Best Poster Award at the 2020 ESMD-E3SM PI Meeting >>E3SM Swag Available
E3SM t-shirts and accessories available online for a limited time >>
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 >> |
