The 2020 Virtual ESMD/E3SM PI Meeting
October 26-29, 2020
The Earth System Model Development (ESMD) program area Principle Investigator (PI) and E3SM Annual All-Hands meeting will be held October 26-29, 2020.
It is the joint meeting of all projects supported by ESMD including DOE lab led SFAs (e.g., E3SM), SciDAC projects, University led projects as well as the projects jointly funded by ESMD and other program areas.
Registration is now open. Please visit https://www.orau.gov/esmd-e3sm to register.
Draft Agenda
FEATURE STORY
From Program Manager
Xujing Davis presents news about E3SM and DOE >>Mesoscale Eddies
Improvements in E3SM mesoscale eddy parametrizations GM90 and Redi mixing >>DL for Sub-Grid Processes
Outsourcing sub-grid cloud physics to deep learning (DL) neural networks >>COVID-19 Research
E3SM scientists join others to study COVID-19's emissions reductions impact on climate >>
BRIEF
Cryosphere–Ocean Viz
The project's goal is to use visualization to understand the land ice response to ocean forcing >>Water Cycle Viz
The project focuses on precipitation from storm tracks and supercell thunderstorms >>New Chrysalis Machine
Dedicated CPU resources, critical to project productivity, are increased with the new machine >>Training Videos Released
A second series of hands-on video tutorials includes working with E3SM data, grids, and meshes >>
SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
New Aerosol Treatments
New treatments have mixed effects on aerosol size distribution, transport, clouds, and forcing. >>Ice-Shelf Melting
Exploring impacts of explicitly resolved ice-shelf melt fluxes on sea ice and ocean processes >>Nonhydrostatic Core
Energy consistent discretization of the equations used by atmospheric global models provided >>Variable Resolution Mesh
MPAS-Ocean dynamics robust to degradation of mesh cell quality/regularity. >>
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
ESM Funding Awards
DOE announces $7 million in funding for Earth System Model Development and Analysis >>2020 Early Career Awards
Matthew Hoffman and Benjamin Sulman receive Early Career Research Program Awards >>Program Meetings
Two virtual meetings relevant to E3SM scientists will be held in October >>Latest Webinars
All-hands presentations now occur every two weeks leading to a wealth of new webinars >>
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 >> |
