2019 E3SM Spring Meeting
March 19-21, 2019 at the Westin in Westminster, CO
E3SM Group Picture – 2019 Spring All-Hands Meeting, CO
Agenda
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
8:00 am: Plenary #1: E3SM Phase 2 Project Status, Next Emphasis, Timeline, Deliverables
- DOE: Gary Geernaert, Corinne Hartin
- David C. Bader – E3SM Project: Goals for Meeting
- Ruby Leung – E3SM Science, Vision and Implementation
- Mark Taylor – E3SM Next-Gen Architecture Strategy
- Renata McCoy – E3SM Project Resources, Policies and Processes
10:00 am: Plenary #2: E3SM Core Groups Status
- Chris Golaz – Water Cycle Status, Plans, Next Emphasis, Blockers
- Susannah Burrows – BGC Biogeochemistry
- Stephen Price – Cryosphere Simulation Campaign
- Robert Jacob – Infrastructure Group Status, Plans, Next Emphasis, Blockers Infrastructure
- Phil Jones – Performance Update
1:00 pm: Parallel Session #1, Group Meetings
- Water Cycle – Chris Golaz, Luke Van Roekel
- General Business (25 min)
- E3SM Diags developments (20 min)
- Presentation (Chengzhu Zhang) E3SM Diagnostics Package Updates
- Discussion
- RRM grids for v2 simulation Campaign (45 min)
- Atmosphere (Erika Roesler) North American Grid
- Ocean and sea-ice (Luke Van Roekel) V2 Ocean/Sea-ice Grid
- Biogeochemichal Cycle – Katherine Calvin, Susannah Burrows
- General Business (45 min)
- Revisit Simulation Plan (25 min, Susannah Burrows)
- RUBISCO plans (Forrest M. Hoffman) (note coordination spreadsheet)
- C4MIP paper and data request (Susannah Burrows)
- Simulation discussion (ALL)
- Update on the BGC Roadmap (20 min, Susannah Burrows)
- Revisit Simulation Plan (25 min, Susannah Burrows)
- v1 papers and analyses (45 min)
- BGC overview paper (15 min, Susannah Burrows)
- CTC results, analysis and paper plans (20 min, Peter Thornton)
- ECA results, analysis and paper plans (10 min, Qing Zhu)
- General Business (45 min)
- Cryosphere Group, Stephen Price, Wuyin Lin, Mark Petersen
- General Business (45 min)
- v2 model developments (45 min)
- NGD Atmosphere, Shaocheng Xie
- General Business (10min) Shaocheng Xie
- Updates (~5min each)
- Atmospheric Chemistry Philip Cameron-Smith
- Aerosols/Dusts Hailong Wang
- P3 Jiwen Fan
- CLUBB-SILHS Vince Larson
- EDMF Joao Teixeira
- ZM enhancements Guang Zhang
- Momentum transport Jadwiga (Yaga) Richter
- Subgrid treatment of clouds & aerosols Po-Lun Ma
- Model tuning and evaluation Yun Qian; Yuying Zhang
- General Discussion (20 min)
- NGD Software and Algorithms, Andy Salinger
- Intro: Andy Salinger
- Updates/Progress (can use 1-3 slides):
- Hui Wan, Andreas Wilke, Verification and Testing Infrastructure
- Andrew Michael Bradley, NGD: Efficient Communication Pattern for Interpolation Semi-Lagrangian Tracer Transport
- Andrew Steyer
- J. Austin Ellis, Reducing E3SM Communication through Task Mapping
- Salil Mahajan and Joseph H. Kennedy, Climate Statistics Reproducibility
- 2:00pm: Barotropic Solve kickoff: Philip Jones, Hyun-Gyu Kang, Mark Petersen, Siddhartha Bishnu, Andy Salinger, and anyone else interested
3:00 pm: Parallel Session #2, Group Meetings
- Water Cycle – Chris Golaz, Luke Van Roekel
- v2 model developments (1.5 h) ( + NGD Atmosphere )
- Individual presentations
- Improving Mesoscale Eddy Mixing (15 min, Luke Van Roekel on behalf ocean)
- Semi-Lagrangian transport “Theta” model NH & H dycore (5 min, Oksana Guba , Mark Taylor)
- NH dynamical core (5 min, Mark Taylor)
- Recommendation: Implement faster version of CLUBB in E3SMv2 (5 min, Vince Larson, Balwinder Singh)
- Improvements on the Simulated Present-Day Cloud Climatology (5 min, Po-Lun Ma or Balwinder Singh)
- Improved QBO with GW changes (5 min, Shaocheng Xie)
- The Unrestricted Launch Level (ULL) Trigger for V2 (5 min, Shaocheng Xie)
- Minimalist “scale-aware” physics package for RRM E3SMv2 (5 min, Xue Zheng)
- Improved Dust Aerosol Physics for V2 (5 min, Yan Feng)
- Error in Maximum/Minimum 2-m Reference Temperatures (5 min, Michael Brunke)
- Alternate ocean sfc parameterization (5 min, Michael Brunke)
- MOSART Water Management and Inundation (5 min, Tian Zhou)
- Update of Plant hydraulics Implementation (5 min, Yilin Fang)
- Discussion
- Individual presentations
- v2 model developments (1.5 h) ( + NGD Atmosphere )
- Biogeochemical Cycles Group – Katherine Calvin, Susannah Burrows
- v1 papers and analyses, cont. (15 min)
- Evaluation of Ocean and Sea Ice Biogeochemistry (15 min,Nicole Jeffery and Mathew Maltrud)
- v2 model developments (1.5 h)
- Diagnostics for the v2 Model (30 min,Forrest M. Hoffman and Susannah Burrows
- Overview of ILAMB/IOMB
- New model features that need diagnostics
- Missing diagnostics
- FATES and UQ with FATES (20 min, Khachik Sargsyan and Jennifer Holm
- Modeling Dynamic Vegetation with ELM-FATES: v2 Status Update
- Brief updates on other ongoing model developmentsCoupling GCAM to E3SM
- Coupling GCAM to E3SM (5 min, Tim Shippert)
- Atmosphere bug fixes (5 min, Bryce Harrop)
- Crops (5 min, Beth Drewniak)
- Discussion (10 min)
- v1 papers and analyses, cont. (15 min)
- Cryosphere Group, Stephen Price, Wuyin Lin, Mark Petersen
- Cryosphere Simulation Campaign (45 min)
- Support for ice sheets (45 min)
- Infrastructure , Robert Jacob, Chengzhu Zhang
- General business (30 min)
- DevOps update: testing machines, storage, plans. (1 h)
- Performance, Philip Jones, Sarat Sreepathi
- Detailed agenda on meeting notes page
- GPU v2
- Benchmarking for users
- Communication improvements
- I/O
- Single precision?
- Gordon Bell
- Detailed agenda on meeting notes page
7:00 pm: Deep Dive Practice
- Deep Dive Practice,Philip Jones, Mathew Maltrud, Peter Thornton, William Riley
- Processflow: use cases, testing, plans.
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
8:00 am: Plenary #3: Model Biases, Presentation of Key Biases
- Water Cycle Overview (5 min,Chris Golaz)
- Cloud Radiative Effects: Response to Surface Warming
- Aerosol Forcing and Biases in E3SMv1 (10 min,Hailong Wang)
- Impacts on Cryosphere Campaign (5 min,stephen price)
- Atmospheric Biases Over South Oceans and Antarctica (10 min,Wuyin Lin)
- Sea-ice biases (10 min,Andrew Roberts)
- S Ocean:
- Impacts on Cryosphere Campaign Ocean Biases (10 min,Xylar Asay-Davis)
- NGD Atmosphere & BGC, Shaocheng Xie
- Convection and Clouds (30 min) Shaocheng Xie
- Thoughts of adopting some CMDV-MCS work for NGD , Jiwen Fan
- Discussion topics
- Coordination of timelines
- Simulation data sharing
- Discussion topics
- Aerosols – Atmospheric Chemistry – couplings to bgc and energy (60 min) (+ Susannah Burrows, Philip Cameron-Smith, Hailong Wang, Manish Shrivastava)
- Overview/Introduction, Susannah Burrows
- Chemistry and Radiation Update, Philip Cameron-Smith, Michael J. Prather, Juno Hsu
- Development of New Computationally Efficient Treatments of Secondary Organic Aerosols, Manish Shrivastava
- Nitrate-Stratospheric Aerosol Chemistry (Hailong Wang)
- Modeling Atmospheric Dust and Iron/Phosphorous Fluxes – BGC (Yan Feng)
- Impact of Wildfires on Near Surface Climate and GPP (Li Xu)
- Radiative Transfer Treatment for Snow on Land and Snow on Sea Ice (Cheng Dang, Adam Michael Schneider)
- Semi-Lagrangian Tracer Transport in the Atmosphere, Andrew Michael Bradley
- E3SM Chemistry Solver (Joshua Fu; presented by Philip Cameron-Smith)
- Discussion:
- Gaps in model capabilities
- Evaluation/analysis needs
- Intertask dependencies
- Water Cycle – Metrics, Chris Golaz, Luke Van Roekel
- Metrics, mini hackathon (1.5h)
- Overview
- Simulation of Tropical Cyclones TCs) in the low-resolution
- Land-Atmosphere Grids
- ELM External Model Interface Discussion CMDV-Land (CMDV-Land) (45 min) Benjamin Sulman, Ryan Knox, Gautam Bisht (+ NGD Land + BGC )
- High resolution grid coordination among model components (45 min) Ben Bond-Lamberty, Ruby Leung, Tian Zhou (NGD Land); short talks by
- High Resolution Land Grids, Gautam Bisht
- Ultra High-Res Offline Land for North American Domain, Peter Thornton
- MPAS-O Mesh Characteristics, Generation, and Regional Refinement, Phillip J. Wolfram
- Watershed Grid for E3SM, Teklu Tesfa
- Performance, Philip Jones, Sarat Sreepathi
- Agenda on meeting notes page
1:00 pm: Plenary #3: Model Biases, Presentation of Key Biases
- SCREAM, Peter Caldwell ( + NGD Soft &Alg. + NGD Atmos + Perf)
- Intro/Overview Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model (SCREAM) (Peter Caldwell, 5 min)
- Physical Processes (overview, status, results)
- SHOC Implementation Status (Peter Bogenschutz, 10 min)
- P3 Microphysics in the SCREAM (Aaron Donahue, Kyle Pressel, 10 min)
- RRTMGP Status (Ben Hillman, 5 min)
- NH Phys/Dyn Coupling (Oksana Guba, 5 min)
- NH dynamics timestepping (Andrew Steyer, 5 min)
- NH C++ and HOMMEXX (Luca Bertagna, 5 min)
- Physics Discussion (15 min)
- Evaluation
- SCREAM Evaluation: Results, plans, needed tools (Peter Caldwell, 10 min)
- Discussion (20 min)
- Water Cycle – Analysis, Chris Golaz, Luke Van Roekel
- 1 analysis papers (1.5h)
- Infrastructure, Robert Jacob, Chengzhu Zhang
- Best Practices for Diag/Analysis Development. Python3. Review of code walkthroughs. (1.5h)=
- NGD Land, Ben Bond-Lamberty
- General Business (1.5h)
- Updates on code cleanup, subcontracts, calendar, reporting
- Progress updates from all groups
- NGD Land All Hands
- Cryosphere Group , Stephen Price, Wuyin Lin, Mark Petersen
- Ice Sheet Surface Climate (1.5h)
3:00 pm: Plenary #3: Model Biases, Presentation of Key Biases (cont’d)
- SCREAM, Peter Caldwell ( + NGD Soft &Alg. + NGD Atmos + Perf)
- Code (strategy, status, plans):
- Design of a Next-Generation Atmospheric Driver for SCREAM (Aaron Donahue, Luca Bertagna, 10min)
- Performance-Portable Physics Parameterizations, C++/Kokkos port (James Foucar, AndrewMichaelBradley, 10 min)
- Testing Scream (James Foucar, Andrew Michael Bradley, 10 min)
- Discussion (15 min)
- Plans
- Deliverables and Deadlines (Peter Caldwell, 5 min)
- Discussion of desired practices/culture (15 min)
- Discussion of opportunities (to change direction in beneficial ways, to entrain more people, etc; 25 min)
- Code (strategy, status, plans):
- NGD-Atmospheric Physics. Shaocheng Xie
- Evaluation of v1-V3 Atmospheric physics Yuying Zhang
- Agenda
- EAMv1 simulated Marine stratocumulus, Michael Brunke
- What cause the model behavior changes in clouds and precipitation?, Shaocheng Xie
- Resolution Effect on Aerosol Distribution, YanFeng
- More Realistic LW Surf-Atm Coupling, Xianglei Huang
- New quasi-area phys grids, Walter Hannah
- PPE for understanding model structural errors, Yun Qian
- Infrastructure, Robert Jacob, Chengzhu Zhang
- High Res Analysis and Diagnostics, Charlie Zender
- BGC – Coastal, Nicole Jeffery, Phillip J. Wolfram
- Coastal BGC Breakout
- 3:00-4:00pm: 5min presentations:
- Toward a Coastal BGC Capability, Phillip J. Wolfram
- Improved Land ATM Ocean Fluxes, Yan Feng
- MOSART-Heat/BGC, Hong-Yi Li
- Mosart Urban Hydrology, Hong-Yi Li
- MOSART inundation, Tian Zhou
- MOSART Erosional N and P fluxes in ELM, Zeli Tan
- ELM-saltmarsh: predicting vegetation and sediment BGC response to warming and SLR in a tidal marsh environment, Peter Thornton
- Integration of wind-wave physics into E3SM through WaveWatchIII coupling, Steven Brus
- Toward MPAS-O Coastal Sediment Transport, Zhendong Cao, Phillip J. Wolfram
- Benthic Sediment BGC Flux Model, (Fei Chai and Zhengui Wang)
- S. Ocean biases (1.5h)
Thursday, March 21, 2019
8:00 am:
- New Grids , Chris Golaz, Peter Caldwell, Robert Jacob, Tian Zhou, Peter Thornton, Tuby Leung, Louise Parsons Chini
- Overview of new grids being designed/needed by E3SM:
- Water cycle extended CONUS, (Erika Roesler and Luke Van Roekel , 5 min)
- Cryo grid , Wuyin Lin, 5 min)
- SCREAM grids, (Peter Caldwell, 5 min)
- Steps for running on new grids (Ben Hillman, 20 min)
- Automated script for running on new grids (Noel Keen, 10 min)
- Link to process for ocean/sea ice mesh and file generation: Simplify E3SM Ocean File Generation
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Remaining issues and opportunities
- Overview (Peter Caldwell, 5 min)
- Overview of LULCC generation (Louise Parsons Chini, 10 min)
- Land and rivers on same grid, which is different than the atm grid (Tian Zhou, 15 min)
- Discussion (15 min)
- Overview of new grids being designed/needed by E3SM:
10:00 am:
- Science Groups Experiment Coordination, Chris Golaz, Susannah Burrows, Stephen Price
- Coordination session and updates on v2 model development for atmosphere, land, and ocean/ice (1.5h)
- v2 timeline, reference pages:
Water Cycle – v1 High-Res Paper (Peter Caldwell, 1.5 hrs)
Will consist of a series of 5-10 min talks as outlined below, followed by discussion:
- Overview: explanation of the run, plans for future runs, outline of the paper (Peter Caldwell)
- Atmosphere results (Peter Caldwell)
- Computational performance (Azamat Mametjanovand/orNoel Keen)
- Ocean results (Luke Van Roekel or designee)
- Sea ice results (Andrew Roberts)
- Land results (Peter Thornton, Forrest M. Hoffman, or designee)
- River runoff results (Tian Zhouor designee)
- Discussion of next steps/TBD analysis
Infrastructure, Robert Jacob, Chengzhu Zhang
- Next steps for containerization; supporting laptops; future IG plans (1.5h)
- Closing Session – Take away home message
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- David C. Bader
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