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From the PI, February '26: A Bit More Stability, a Bit More Change

From the PI, February ’26: A Bit More Stability, a Bit More Change

Peter Caldwell provides an update on E3SM ...
Sally McFarlane

Welcoming Back Dr. Sally McFarlane as E3SM Program Manager

E3SM welcomes back Dr. Sally McFarlane as Program Manager ...
Zooming In: SCREAM at 100 m Using Regional Refinement over the San Francisco Bay Area

Zooming In: SCREAM at 100 m Using Regional Refinement over the San Francisco Bay Area

SCREAM hits 100 m over Bay Area, making LES-scale global runs feasible ...
Heroic Bug Fixes: Missing Frontal Gravity Wave Correction

Heroic Bug Fixes: Missing Frontal Gravity Wave Correction

Fix to frontal gravity wave drag prepares E3SM for more realistic winds ...
Using AI to enable improved physics in an Ocean Wave model

Using AI to enable improved physics in an Ocean Wave model

Deep-learning upgrade boosts wave-height accuracy with little slowdown ...
E3SM AI in Action Award: Show How You Use AI to Work Smarter

E3SM AI in Action Award: Show How You Use AI to Work Smarter

New E3SM competition: Share how you use AI to boost E3SM productivity and win an award ...
Understanding and improving the quasi-biennial oscillation in E3SM

Understanding and improving the quasi-biennial oscillation in E3SM

Surrogate tuned grids sharpen E3SM’s QBO, exposing key wave tradeoffs ...
Nephele Perturbed Process Ensemble (E3SMv3) Available for Community Use

Nephele Perturbed Process Ensemble (E3SMv3) Available for Community Use

New Perturbed Process Ensemble E3SMv3 data called “Nephele” is now available ...
Vegetation demography plays a crucial role in the effects of wood harvesting on the land surface properties

Vegetation demography plays a crucial role in the effects of wood harvesting on the land surface properties

Wood harvest demography boosts E3SM’s realism for albedo and surface fluxes ...
MOAB-Based Coupler Achieves Bit-for-Bit Parity with Legacy System

MOAB-Based Coupler Achieves Bit-for-Bit Parity with Legacy System

New MOAB-based coupler supports dynamic meshes and improves performance and scalability ...
New Release: E3SM-Unified 1.12.0 is Here

New Release: E3SM-Unified 1.12.0 is Here

E3SM-Unified 1.12.0 refreshes core tools and upgrades to Python 3.13 ...
Best Paper Award at SC25:  AI-driven Weather Prediction with ORBIT-2

Best Paper Award at SC25: AI-driven Weather Prediction with ORBIT-2

ORNL ORBIT-2 brings exascale AI downscaling toward 0.9 km globally ...
E3SM All-Hands Presentations - February 2026 Update

E3SM All-Hands Presentations – February 2026 Update

All-hands presentations continue to inform scientists as well as the public ...
From the Program Manager, November '25: The View from DC

From the Program Manager, November ’25: The View from DC

Gary Geernaert presents news from DOE BER ...
From the PI November '25: Success Amidst Change

From the PI November ’25: Success Amidst Change

Peter Caldwell provides an update on E3SM ...
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