FEATURE STORY
From Interim Manager
E3SM project scientists will present at several upcoming meetings >>New Coastal Waves Model
E3SM Next Generation Development for Coastal Waves >>Better Barotropic Solver
A semi-implicit barotropic solver improves performance of the E3SM ocean model >>PACE
PACE helps scientists understand the performance of complex coupled models like E3SM >>
BRIEF
RGMA CMIP6 Hackathon
The DOE’s Regional and Global Model Analysis program organized a CMIP6 "big data" hackathon >>Compy in Action
"Compy" - the new E3SM computer located at PNNL - is now fully operational >>Latest Webinars
E3SM makes its all-hands presentations available to everyone on E3SM's YouTube channel >>Career Opportunities
Check current career openings in earth system sciences >>
SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
Variable Resolution Mesh
The quality of the variable-resolution mesh affects E3SM's MPAS-Ocean simulation statistics >>Columbia Basin Streamflow
Detection of drivers and quantifying changes in streamflow in the Columbia River basin >>Human-Earth feedbacks
E3SM's iESM (integrated Earth System Model) explores human-Earth feedbacks >>Amazon CO2 Fertilization
Amazon forest response to CO2 fertilization is dependent on plant phosphorus acquisition >>
RELEASES
CMake based E3SM build
The complexity of CIME build was reduced significantly by adopting CMake in E3SM >>E3SM Unified Env v1.3.0
An updated version of E3SM's Unified environment, v1.3.0, is now available >>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 >>
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
2019 E3SM Fall Meeting
The 2019 Fall E3SM All-hands Meeting will convene in Washington, DC on Nov. 19-21, 2019 >>AGU Fall Meeting 2019
E3SM scientists will present papers and posters at the 2019 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall >>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 >>
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 >> |
