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November 21, 2022
NCAR|CGD:
CATALYST performs foundational coordinated research in a team oriented, collaborative environment. It aims to advance a robust understanding of the modes of Earth system variability and change by utilizing the DOE Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), the NCAR Community Earth System Model (CESM), Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) multi-model data sets, a hierarchy of simpler models, machine learning methods, and numerous observational data sets.
November 21, 2022
Eos:
Are We Entering The Golden Age Of Climate Modeling?
Thanks to the advent of exascale computing, local climate forecasts may soon be a reality. And they’re not just for scientists anymore.
November 10, 2022
ESiWACE:
ESiWACE2 2nd Virtual Workshop on Emerging Technologies successfully completed
The second session on programming models and hardware interplay chaired by Andrew Porter (STFC) addressed the use of domain specific languages (DSLs) for climate and earth system modelling, experiences with the C++ library Kokkos in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) and DestinE: opportunities & challenges for digital twins of the Earth System.
October 25, 2022
UNM Newsroom:
DOE awards $3.3 million to UNM professor, research on climate prediction
An unpredictable picture of a future fueled by climate change is getting clearer with the help of The University of New Mexico and Department of Energy (DOE).
Department of Mathematics & Statistics Professor Emerita Deborah Sulsky has just been awarded a $3.3 million grant as part of the DOE’s efforts to improve its Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM).
October 24, 2022
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory:
The Science of Hurricanes: Preparing for and Enduring Big Storms
PNNL’s work doesn’t stop at the here-and-now. Researchers are working to better understand how hurricanes and their impacts might be affected by climate change. Ruby Leung, a PNNL atmospheric scientist and Battelle Fellow, is also the chief scientist of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (better known as E3SM), an Earth system model developed to support DOE’s energy mission.
The meteorological observations made by ARM’s Mobile Research Facility will help produce more accurate rainfall prediction models. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory/Scott Collis
October 12, 2022
PHYS ORG:
New tool helps researchers investigate clouds, rain and climate change
Using an approach developed for NASA, Argonne scientists plan to use EMC2 in collaboration with DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), a high-resolution model designed to examine the most detailed dynamics of climate-generating behavior.
September 27, 2022
Oak Ridge National Laboratory:
Taking it to the streets: ORNL models climate solutions for U.S. cities
“We have a lot of experience with what’s known as the ModEx approach — integrating environmental observations from widespread networks into large-scale models,” Ricciuto said. “ORNL is continually refining and calibrating such models, and we look forward to incorporating new knowledge about urban ecosystems into E3SM through this project.” By pinpointing climate impacts and mitigation for specific underserved neighborhoods, the Urban IFL brings a new granularity to ORNL’s modeling, he added.
September 21, 2022
ATMO@UH:
Webinar Presented by Dr. Shaocheng Xie of LLNL at the School of Ocean and Earth Science Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa
August 31, 2022
ITPro.:
Climate supercomputer model to receive $70 million research boost
The US Department of Energy (DoE) has announced seven new projects to receive a total of $70 million funding, which will work to improve its climate prediction model.
The Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) is the DoE’s advanced model for climate prediction, operating at exascale levels to provide extremely detailed simulations of weather systems, changes in ocean currents, and decade-long shifts in climate.
August 30, 2022
insideHPC:
Los Alamos, PNNL, Univ. of New Mexico Researchers to Lead $70M DOE HPC Climate Model Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $70 million in funding for seven projects intended to improve climate prediction and aid in the fight against climate change. The research will be used to accelerate development of DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), enabling scientific discovery through collaborations between climate scientists, computer scientists and applied mathematicians.
August 19, 2022
University of Washington | Bothell:
Expanding regional research opportunities
Programming predictions:
Also part of the 2022 REU cohort is Colton Maybee, an HU junior majoring in Computer Science. He spent the summer at the Pacific Northwest National Lab researching an efficient way to detect solution reproducibility in earth system models.
“An earth system model is an open-source software for building climate, weather prediction, data assimilation and other earth science software applications,” Maybee explained. “The model simulates all relevant aspects of the earth system including the atmosphere, land, ocean, ice and sea ice.”
August 17, 2022
HPCWire:
DOE and ORNL Dedicate Frontier Supercomputer
The supercomputer, which in May became the first system to achieve over 1.0 exaflops of 64-bit performance on the HPL benchmark, which determines system rankings on the prestigious, semi-annual Top500 list. The unveiling was a crowning achievement for ORNL and the U.S. Department of Energy.
“As a scientist who has been working in climate change for pretty much my whole career, I’m particularly excited to see how the Energy Exascale Earth System Model will be able to transform our understanding of several key earth system processes, and in particular, help us understand our changing climate with the urgency that’s needed,” said Berhe.
August 9, 2022
EESM:
Overall Performance Measures
3rd Quarter Metric Completed:
Demonstrate that Antarctic and Southern Ocean Regionally Refined Mesh (rrm) Improves Fully Coupled E3SM Simulations of Antarctic Sub-Ice-Shelf Melt Fluxes and Southern Ocean Climate
Snapshot of the simulated landfall of an atmospheric river along the west coast of North America on February 11, 2020. Grey tones depict water vapor. Colors indicate precipitation intensity from blue (light rain) to green (very strong precipitation). Credit: Department of Energy Office of Science, Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) project.
August 9, 2022
SciTechDaily:
Science Made Simple: What are Atmospheric Rivers?
Atmospheric rivers are a very important part of the Earth’s climate. They are responsible for 90% of the movement of moisture from the tropics toward the poles. This means atmospheric rivers are a major factor in the formation of clouds and therefore have a significant influence on air temperatures, sea ice, and other components of the climate.
July 24, 2022
Los Alamos National Laboratory:
Collaborative Climate Modeling
Powerful new tools help predict climate change and its potential impacts on national security.
Humans are now living in the warmest climate in modern history. Wildfires, droughts, hurricanes, flooding, extreme heat, and coastal erosion are more intense and more frequent with each passing year.
What do these climate changes mean for national security?
Black carbon, or soot, from wildfires, transportation and other sources has a big impact on global warming, but a data gap has prevented climate-change models from accurately representing that influence. New work by Los Alamos National Laboratory closes the gap with a simple parameter for climate models. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory.
July 22, 2022
Technology Networks Applied Sciences:
Estimates of Soot’s Role in Climate Change Improved by Wildfire-Smoke Observations
New research refining the amount of sunlight absorbed by black carbon in smoke from wildfires will help clear up a longtime weak spot in Earth system models, enabling more accurate forecasting of global climate change.
Black carbon, or soot, from wildfires, transportation and other sources has a major impact on global warming, but a data gap has prevented climate change models from accurately reflecting that impact. New work from Los Alamos National Laboratory closes the gap with a simple climate modeling parameter. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory
July 22, 2022
WHATSNEW2DAY:
Wildfire-smoke observations fill gap in estimating soot’s role in climate change
“Black carbon or soot is the second most potent climate warming agent after CO2 and methane, despite a short lifespan of weeks, but its impact in climate models is still very uncertain,” said James Lee, climate researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory and corresponding author of the new study in Geophysical Survey Letters on light absorption by wildfire smoke. “Our research will remove that uncertainty.”
Researchers have developed a multiscale modeling framework to refine cloud representation in E3SM climate simulations on GPU-accelerated supercomputers
July 5, 2022
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Leadership Computing Facility:
ECP Advances the Science of Atmospheric Convection Modeling
Researchers supported by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) have integrated the promising super-parameterization technique for modeling moist convection into the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM). This method enables E3SM to significantly improve cloud resolution while also reducing compute time and cost.
July 1, 2022
NGEE-Tropics:
Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments
Tree Crown Damage Alters Canopy Structure and Competitive Dynamics
A multi-institutional team of scientists introduce a crown damage module into the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES), a submodel of the DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM). Using this new functionality, scientists were able to test how crown damage alters forest dynamics relative to equivalent increases in tree mortality.
May 31, 2022
News from ISSE:
Spring Magazine 2022
Institute for Secure & Sustainable Environment
Climate change is one of the most critical challenges faced by human being and our planet. Researchers at ISSE, closely working with the Climate Change Science Institute at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), is advancing our understanding of climate change and its impacts on human and natural systems. We use Earth system modeling, integrated ground and remote sensing observations, and advanced data analytical tools to study climate change and its impacts on water availability, soil moisture, wildfires, and vegetation. The team is Drs. Yaoping Wang, Yulong Zhang, Jiafu Mao (Joint Professor at ORNL), Joshua Fu, and Mingzhou Jin.
May 31, 2022
PHYS ORG:
A cloudless future? The mystery at the heart of climate forecasts
We hear a lot about how climate change will change the land, sea, and ice. But how will it affect clouds?
“Low clouds could dry up and shrink like the ice sheets,” says Michael Pritchard, professor of Earth System science at UC Irvine. “Or they could thicken and become more reflective.”
These two scenarios would result in very different future climates. And that, Pritchard says, is part of the problem.
May 31, 2022
ScienceDaily:
A cloudless future? The mystery at the heart of climate forecasts
New computational approaches help researchers include cloud physics in global models, addressing long-standing questions
HPCwire highlights newly published research in the high-performance computing community and related domains.
April 28, 2022
HPCwire:
E3SM Diags, Sunway Supercomputer, AxoNN, Snellius Suprercomputer & More
The E3SM diagnostics package: a python-based diagnostics package for earth system models evaluation
E3SM Diags is an open-source Python software package that was released in 2017 and developed to support the Department of Energy Energy Exascale Earth System 5 Model project. A multi-institutional team of researchers modeled E3SM Diags after the atmospheric model working group diagnostics package from the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
April 19, 2022
insideHPC:
ExaIO: Access and Manage Storage of Data Efficiently and at Scale on Exascale Systems
As the word exascale implies, the forthcoming generation exascale supercomputer systems will deliver 1018 flop/s of scalable computing capability. All that computing capability will be for naught if the storage hardware and I/O software stack cannot meet the storage needs of applications running at scale—leaving applications either to drown in data when attempting to write to storage or starve while waiting to read data from storage.
Snapshot of the simulated landfall of an atmospheric river along the west coast of North America on February 11, 2020. Grey tones depict water vapor. Colors indicate precipitation intensity from blue (light rain) to green (very strong precipitation).
April 7, 2022
EurekaAlert!:
Better clouds than ever with new exascale computing-ready atmosphere model
Researchers working on the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) project have developed an entirely new global atmosphere model. The model has a resolution 30 times finer than global climate models. This resolution allows scientists to model and study the atmosphere with far more detail than previously possible. A new paper describes the equations that govern the new global atmosphere model and evaluates the model’s first simulation.
February 23, 2022
Universal Wiser Publisher:
Science Made Simple: What Are Earth System and Climate Models?
Earth system models and climate models are a complex integration of environmental variables used for understanding our planet. Earth system models simulate how chemistry, biology, and physical forces work together. These models are similar to but much more comprehensive than global climate models.
Global E3SM simulation showing eddy activity.
January 20, 2022
ORNL: Updated exascale system for Earth simulations delivers twice the speed
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s press release story on the E3SM version 2 model release.
“E3SMv2 delivered twice the performance over E3SMv1 when using identical computational resources”
Earth system models like E3SM take advantage of powerful new computers to simulate variations in Earth systems and anticipate changes that will critically impact the U.S. energy sector in coming years.
January 6, 2022
ANL: Updated exascale system for Earth simulations
Argonne National Laboratory’s press release story on the E3SM version 2 model release.
January 7, 2022
HPCwire: Updated Exascale System for Earth Simulations Is Twice as Fast as Predecessor
The high performance computing magazine, HPCwire, featured this story on E3SM in their magazine.
January 7, 2022
JAMES cover depicting a hurricane off the west coast of Australia on Feb 16th, 2020 at 0 UTC as simulated by SCREAM at 3.25 km resolution and the paper Caldwell et al, 2021.
November 21, 2021
SCREAM featured on the cover of JAMES
First results from simulations performed with the Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model (SCREAM) were recently published in JAMES (Caldwell et al, 2021) and an image from SCREAM was chosen for the journal’s November 21, 2020 issue cover. SCREAM is a new E3SM Atmosphere Model being developed from the ground up in order to support Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) architectures and to run efficiently at a global resolution of 3 km cell length.
Visualization of a high-resolution simulation from E3SM
November 14, 2021
Entry video for Supercomputing 2021:
Polynyas: Polar Physics Revealed through Visualization of the E3SM Global Climate Model
Abstract, Video Summary: pdf, Video: mp4
The video highlights the role of polynyas in modulating earth’s mesoscale processes using high-resolution simulations from the Energy Exascale EarthSystem Model (E3SM).
Polynyas are openings within polar sea ice pack formed and sustained by atmospheric and oceanic processes. They occur in the Arctic ocean and the Southern ocean, lasting for many months, and act as a conduit for heat and water between the oceanic and atmospheric systems.
High-resolution E3SM simulation over the Arctic showing surface ocean currents and temperatures (blue) and January sea-ice concentration (gray/white).
October 25, 2021
LANL: Improved DOE exascale Earth system model two times faster than previous version
Los Alamos National Laboratory’s press release story on the E3SM version 2 model release.
HPCwire features E3SM’s v2 release.
October 18, 2021
HPCwire: Energy Exascale Earth System Model Version 2 Promises Twice the Speed
The high performance computing magazine, HPCwire, featured a story on E3SM’s version 2 release, which included a key quote by scientist Chris Golaz from the LLNL and LANL press releases: “From one version to another, Earth system models typically become better but also quite a bit slower, so both faster and better is significant.”
A model of the North American Regionally Refined Model grid showing the grid refinement that includes a 100-kilometer grid globally and 25 kilometers over North America.
October 14, 2021
LLNL’s press release: Updated exascale system for earth simulations
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November 8, 2021
LBNL’s press release: Improved Earth System Model Could Help Better Predict Impact of Extreme Events
The cover image shows a simulation run on the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) state-of-the-science Energy Exascale Earth Systems Model (E3SM), which leverages DOE’s advanced supercomputers for climate and earth science research.
September/October 2021
LLNL’s Science & Technology Review: Climate Change Comes Into Focus
Commentary by Dave Bader
The article describes, the newly released version 2 will be used to simulate aspects of Earth’s variability at weather-scale resolution and investigate decadal changes in climate that will critically impact the United States in coming years.
Climate Research at the Office of Science video screenshot.
July 22, 2021
DOE Office of Science: Climate Research at the Office of Science Roundtable Discussion
E3SM’s BGC Lead Scientist Kate Calvin, participated in a livestream roundtable discussion with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Deputy Director for Climate and Environment at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Jane Lubchenco, Associate Director for Operations for DOE’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility Nicki Hickmon, and Senior Advisor in the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division (CESD) of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Earth & Environmental Sciences Area Margaret Torn.
Polar warming is much faster than the mid-latitudes and tropics, and the warming over land is greater than over ocean, however it is unknown where more extreme heat events occur. New research shows more record-breaking temperatures and heat events will occur in the tropics rather than the poles.
June 10, 2021
World Economic Forum article: What climate change will mean for the tropics
E3SM and University of Arizona researcher, Xubin Zeng’s recent paper on “Quantifying the Occurrence of Record Hot Years Through Normalized Warming Trends” was highlighted in a World Economic Forum article based on a University of Arizona press release titled “Record-Breaking Temperatures More Likely in Populated Tropics.” The paper was also included in “AMS News You Can Use” and “AGU in the News.”
Processes modeled by Icepack, the column physics of the sea ice model CICE.
May 18, 2021
Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL’s) YouTube Channel: R & D 100: CICE Video
LANL’s Elizabeth Hunke narrated a video about the sea ice model, CICE, and Icepack its column physics code. The video has been submitted to the 2021 R&D 100 Awards competition.
Dr. Lai-yung Ruby Leung, E3SM Chief Scientist.
May 11, 2021
DOE Office of Science:
Tweet and Women @ Energy: Dr. Ruby Leung Article
Ruby Leung was mentioned in a DOE Office of Science Twitter post for Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month. The tweet referred back to a feature story the Office published on September 11, 2019 about Women working at the Department of Energy.
The front of Getz Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Credit: Jeremy Harbeck, NASA Icebridge
May 5, 2021
New York Times: Emissions Cuts Could Drop the Impact of Melting Ice on Oceans by Half
Washington Post: ‘Uncertainty is not our friend’: Scientists are still struggling to understand the sea level risks posed by Antarctica
LANL’s Press Release: Antarctica remains the wild card for sea-level rise estimates through 2100
LBNL/NERSC Press Release: Limit global warming to 1.5°C and halve the land ice contribution to sea level this century
All news articles and press releases include a discussion of the Nature paper titled “Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise” which was published May 5, 2021. Several E3SM and SciDAC ProSPect team members were co-authors on the Nature paper.
A helicopter flight over Greenland enabled UCI Earth system scientists to observe melt ponds. By gathering data from a network of weather instruments placed around the massive island, the researchers determined that surface melting of its ice sheet is coming mainly from the steady, day-to-day effect of wind- and solar-driven heat. Image courtesy of Wenshan Wang (UCI).
May 5, 2021
University of California, Irvine (UCI) News:
UCI researchers identify primary causes of Greenland’s rapid ice sheet surface melt
Understanding the relative importance of the various surface melt processes is helping scientists evaluate and improve Greenland’s surface melt in E3SM.
Researchers: Wenshan Wang (UCI), Charlie Zender (UCI), Dirk van As and Robert Fausto (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, GEUS), and Matthew Laffin (UCI).
April 18-24, 2021
DOE Office of Science Twitter Feed:
For Earth Week, the Office of Science highlighted E3SM’s Earth systems modeling work by creating animated GIFs which they posted on the Office of Science’s Twitter feed. Some of the posts included the following tweets.
April 24:
Earth systems simulations can help us understand how & why Antarctic ice sheets may retreat in response to climate change. Research @BrookhavenLab, @LosAlamosNatLab & @SandiaLabs are revealing how that retreat will affect sea level rise. #ICYMI #EarthDay https://t.co/5F2z8AMCW4 pic.twitter.com/frl0xMA1pC
— DOE Science (@doescience) April 24, 2021
April 23:
Many interacting systems form our planet's ecology. @ENERGY Earth systems models explore the impact of different variables on ecological outputs, like gross primary productivity (the amount of solar energy organisms store as carbon over time). #EarthDay https://t.co/IHPx437pu0 pic.twitter.com/wZ6SklwH8v
— DOE Science (@doescience) April 23, 2021
April 22:
Story about E3SM on the Office of Science website: For Earth Systems Scientists, Every Day is Earth Day
April 21:
Cloud spotting is watching water vapor move. Understanding how the concentration of water vapor changes throughout the atmosphere (as in this animation) is essential to developing climate models that help us understand Earth’s past and future. #EarthDay https://t.co/X0MkSp2kE0 pic.twitter.com/iXoxF9kTsy
— DOE Science (@doescience) April 21, 2021
April 20:
How will climate change affect severe weather events like tropical cyclones and droughts? Earth systems models supported by @Energy are helping us simulate events like this supercell thunderstorm under a variety of conditions. #EarthDay https://t.co/sblK1dugWE pic.twitter.com/ngKfqH6vBG
— DOE Science (@doescience) April 20, 2021
April 19:
Even little kids know the water cycle. But each step has a ton of variables. Our Earth systems models portray these complex steps in 3D over time, helping us understand how climate change will affect our communities in the future. #EarthDay https://t.co/trILdI67hq pic.twitter.com/xk1eKOgVsp
— DOE Science (@doescience) April 19, 2021
April 18:
To make decisions around climate change, local communities need the right info. @Energy is refining our Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) so it can have the best resolution on the planet & inform at-risk cities and groups. #EarthDay https://t.co/94vRyE6D3t
— DOE Science (@doescience) April 18, 2021
This view toward the South Pole is a snapshot of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. (Courtesy of the Sculpting Vis Collaborative, Daniel Keefe, and Francesca Samsel.)
April 1, 2021
Physics Today:
Mingling Art and Science Opens Minds
Mark Petersen and Francesca Samsel of Los Alamos National Laboratory were interviewed for this Physics Today story on collaborations between scientists and artists. The article included their work on visualizing E3SM Antarctic ice shelf melt and ocean circulation data.
Daymet climatologies allow easy comparison of metrics like these monthly averages of maximum temperature for April (left) and August (right) of 2019.
January 29, 2021
Oak Ridge National Laboratory:
Earth System Informatics and Data Discovery
New Daymet Data Facilitate Environmental Science, Earth System Modeling
Researchers: Michele Thornton, Peter Thornton, Rupesh Shrestha, Shih-Chieh Kao, Yaxing Wei and Bruce Wilson.
Los Alamos National Laboratory is studying the outcome of ice sheet melting in Antarctica and how it affects the environment around it.
January 24, 2021
Albuquerque Journal:
Are Visualizations the Future of Science?
by John Patchett, a Staff Scientist in the Information Sciences Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Note: If you don’t have a subscription to the Albuquerque Journal, you’ll need to use Google Chrome and answer a few survey questions to read the article. (You do not need to buy a subscription.)
Susannah Burrows, Climate Scientist from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory participated in the Science Olympiad and continues to volunteer.
December, 2020
STEM Education at Science Olympiad:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Susannah Burrows
Sandia’s Mark Taylor. Image courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories.
November 19, 2020
ASCR Discovery:
Sandia’s Mark Taylor explains how DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model will harness the next level of supercomputer to explore big climate questions.
Scientific Visualization of Antarctica Ice Sheet and Southern Ocean Evolution using MPAS-Albany Land Ice and MPAS-Ocean models.
November 2020
Companion to en entry video for Supercomputing 2020:
Scientific Visualization of Antarctica Ice Sheet and Southern Ocean Evolution
High-quality visualizations of a study of Antarctic ice sheet and Southern Ocean simulations conducted with the MPAS-Albany Land Ice and MPAS-Ocean models in the context of ongoing development towards coupled Antarctic ice sheet simulations with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Exascale Earth System (E3SM) model.
The August Complex, at more than 1 million acres, is the state’s first “gigafire” to occur since at least 1932. Research shows that human-caused climate change bears much of the blame.
October 21, 2020
The Washington Post:
This is What Fuels the West’s Infernos
Ruby Leung was interviewed about wildfires in this Washington Post story and cited on the sharpening of the precipitation seasonal cycle in California and implications for wildfires that can be addressed using E3SM.
At 1-kilometer resolution, a European climate model (left) is nearly indistinguishable from reality (right).
October 1, 2020
Science Magazine:
Europe is building a ‘digital twin’ of Earth to revolutionize climate forecasts
Ruby Leung was interviewed for this article which noted E3SM’s effort on exascale computing, in the context of a new European effort called “Destination Earth”.
Earth System Modeling at DOE.
September 25, 2020
U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee Meeting September 24-25, 2020:
Incorporating GPUs into Earth System Science
Mark Taylor gave a talk on E3SM at the DOE ASCR Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee.
Doug Black, Editor in-Chief insideHPC and Mark Taylor, Mathematician at Sandia National Labs.
September 24, 2020
insideHPC:
Video: Exascale for Earth System Modeling of Storms, Droughts, Sea Level Rise
Mark Taylor was interviewed by insideHPC and talked about the use of exascale-class supercomputers – to be delivered to three U.S. Department of Energy national labs in 2021 – for large-scale and water resource forecasting.
Rows of cabinets hold incredible processing power for one of the world’s best supercomputers, Summit, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in TN. Exascale computing will surpass these existing computers by leaps and bounds.
September 15, 2020
PNAS:
Core Concept: Nascent exascale supercomputers offer promise, present challenges
Ruby Leung and E3SM mentioned in “Core Concept: Nascent exascale supercomputers offer promise, present challenges” in PNAS.
A graphic showing ocean circulation developed from MPAS (Model for Prediction Across Scales) components for oceans, sea ice, and land ice. (Graphic courtesy E3SM.org.)
August 19, 2020
Georgia Institute of Technology:
Making Earth System Models that Match the Speed of Climate Change
Annalisa Bracco and Taka Ito land a Department of Energy grant to improve computer models for analyzing Earth’s carbon cycles across oceans, land, and the atmosphere.
An international team of scientists, including Berkeley Lab’s William Riley and Qing Zhu, published an update on the global methane budget as part of the Global Carbon Project.
August 13, 2020
Berkeley Lab News Center:
Global Methane Emissions Soaring, But How Much Was Due to Wetlands?
A Q&A with Berkeley Lab scientist William Riley on the challenges in estimating methane emissions from wetlands and how nuanced computer models may help.
Building a better picture of the planet using supercomputers.
July 27, 2020
DCD, Data Center Dynamics:
DOE Announces $7M for Energy Exascale Earth System Model
The Department of Energy will fund nine studies designed to help improve the Energy Exascale Earth System Model program. E3SM plans to create a comprehensive model of the Earth system. The projects, lasting three years, will together cost $7m.
In the E3SM-MMF project’s multiscale modeling framework, a cloud-resolving model is embedded within a global model of Earth’s atmosphere. The cloud-resolving model improves the ability to simulate the many processes responsible for cloud formation. Credit: the E3SM-MMF project.
June 25, 2020
ECP, Exascale Computing Project:
E3SM-MMF: Forecasting Water Resources and Severe Weather with Greater Confidence
Mark Taylor was interviewed on the ECP website.
This storm over the Russian River in California was driven by an atmospheric river. Every time the Russian River flooded between 2004 and 2014, it was because of one of these “rivers in the sky.”
March 10, 2020
DOE Office of Science:
Flooding the Sky: Navigating the Science of Atmospheric Rivers
Ruby Leung was interviewed for this DOE Office of Science article on how researchers are collaborating to measure atmospheric rivers and figure out how they can be factored into climate models.
Current-climate bias metrics in the high-resolution model (HR) are generally improved relative to the low/standard-resolution E3SMv1 model (LR), which is itself generally superior to most CMIP5 models (boxes and whiskers in the image above which shows the root-mean-square error (RMSE) where lower values are better).
March 3, 2020
ScienceDaily:
New Version of Earth Model Captures Climate Dynamics
Rob Jacob interviewed: A new high-resolution Earth systems model has been designed to predict climate trends into the next century. The model will provide the scientific basis by which to mitigate the effects of extreme climate on energy and other essential services.
Direct Current – An Energy.gov Podcast
February 14, 2020
Direct Current Podcast – LIVE AT AAAS:
The Future of Water & Wildfire
Ruby Leung was interviewed in a DOE podcast on future water and wildfire challenges at the AAAS annual meeting, highlighting relevant E3SM capabilities that can be brought to bear.
E3SM Video
E3SM in News
Release notes:
- LLNL: https://www.llnl.gov/news/new-exascale-system-earth-simulation
- PNNL: https://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=4503
- LANL: http://www.lanl.gov/discover/news-release-archive/2018/April/0423-earth-modeling-system.php
- ORNL: https://www.ornl.gov/news/new-exascale-earth-modeling-system-energy
- LBNL: https://eesa.lbl.gov/new-high-resolution-exascale-earth-modeling-system-for-energy/
- SNL: https://share-ng.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/exascale_models/#.WudKKNPwZSM
In the news:
- Forbes: 2018-04-23 Energy department predicts how extreme climate and weather will impact US energy systems
- Top 500: DOE unveils exascale earth modeling system
- Observer: Energy Exascale Earth System Model performs high resolutions environment simulations
- https://insights.globalspec.com/article/8627/watch-exascale-computing-system-for-earth-simulation-is-released
- https://infoglitz.com/doe-introduces-exascale-earth-modeling-system/
- https://gcn.com/articles/2018/04/26/e3sm-earth-model.aspx
- http://allofit.net/doe-unveils-exascale-earth-modeling-system/
