Recent News
New High-Resolution
After four years of development, the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) has been released to the broader scientific community. >>Video: DOE’s New,
Watch the video highlights of the capabilities and goals of the E3SM project. >>Project Converting to
The E3SM project will soon convert to an “open development" project. >>Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane hindcasts at 1/8 degree from the E3SM model are used to show the capability of realistically simulating extreme weather. >>
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 >> |
