Recent News
From the Program Manager:
The E3SM user community will be expanding in coming months, with many new projects contributing to model analysis as well as development. >>Developing E3SM: How to
While there’s only one Earth, there are many earth system models. The E3SM team members designed their model to answer questions relevant to DOE’s mission. >>Contributing to E3SM
With a focus on improving representations of the atmospheric, land, or sea-ice components of E3SM, eight new projects have been awarded under the SciDAC program. >>ORNL Introduces Summit,
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently launched Summit, a system that can provide incredible computing power to earth system modeling scientists. >>
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 >> |
