FEATURE STORY
From Interim Manager
Interim Program Manager, Sally McFarlane, hands the reins over to Xujing Davis >>From Program Manager
The new Program Manager, Xujing Davis, settles in at DOE >>Physgrid + Dycore Speedup
New Physgrid and Dycore Methods Speed Up EAM by 2x >>MMF Framework
Improving Clouds in E3SM with a Multi-Scale Modelling Framework >>
BRIEF
ML for Uncertainty
Surrogate Modeling and Machine Learning for Uncertainty Quantification >>DOE's COVID-19 Message
Gary Geernaert sends a COVID-19 message to the scientific community >>E3SM Papers Popular
E3SM papers are among the top 10% of most downloaded AGU papers >>Website Restructure
The E3SM website will be restructured; team looking for beta testers >>
SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
Cloud Deck Spatial Errors
Two reasons for cloud deck spatial errors, one not often acknowledged >>How Floods Start
Flooding simulations shed light on the increasing role of extreme rainfall in some basins >>EAM Nudging Strategies
Simulations nudged towards (constrained by) observational data aid in evaluating models >>Radiocarbon Prediction
Calculation of soil 14C by ELMv1 used to compare CMIP6 models to observations >>
RELEASES
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 >>E3SM-Diags Adds ENSO
E3SM Diagnostics now includes ENSO analysis >>New NCO features
NCO 4.9.1 "Skyglow" release includes new time-saving features >>
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Virtual Meetings
Due to COVID-19, NAS and DOE science meetings go virtual >>Latest Webinars
E3SM makes its presentations available to everyone on its YouTube channel >>2019 E3SM Fall Awards
Xylar Asay-Davis, LANL, and Xiaoying Shi, ORNL, received Outstanding Contribution awards >>Best Poster Award
Darren Engwirda et al. Win 2019 Award for Best Poster >>
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 >> |
