As mentioned above, the first two days, Nov 5th and 6th, will focus on integrative and cross-cutting topics involving Model Development, Model Analysis, and Multisector Dynamics, while the 3rd and 4th days (Nov 6th and Nov 7th) will be deep-dives into the three respective areas. A high-level draft agenda for the first two days is included as a separate attachment. Major topics and themes spanning all four days are listed below.
DAYS 1-2 Community-Crosscutting
Panel sessions in plenary include:
- Extreme-scale computational modeling
- Extremes, variability, and change
- Integrated water cycle
Parallel breakout sessions include:
- Extremes - understanding and modeling single and compound extremes: storms, floods, droughts, heat waves, fire, and other climatologic, hydrologic, land, and socioeconomic disturbances
- Coastal systems - understanding and modeling of coastal systems, influences, and transitions - from urban landscapes and infrastructures to managed and unmanaged ecosystems and regional climatologies and local climatological influences and feedbacks
- High latitudes - science of coupled high-latitude systems, including feedbacks, interactions and teleconnections with lower latitudes
- Land and land-system dynamics - modeling and research of land-use and land-cover change, terrestrial biogeochemistry, vegetation dynamics, and interactions with tightly coupled atmospheric and hydrologic systems and processes
- Data, metrics, and diagnostics - accessible and agile community data platforms, distributed data architectures for expanding questions/needs, data analytics and adaptable interfaces, machine learning and pattern recognition, model performance metrics and analysis techniques, and diagnostic methods and applications for evaluating and improving models
- Tools, frameworks and transition to exascale - modeling frameworks, modular modeling architectures, advanced software constructs, and supporting tools and infrastructure in transition to exascale computing
Note that scheduled poster sessions on the first and second days of the meeting, aligned with the six themes of the parallel breakout sessions, will complement and enhance the discussions and presentations in the breakouts. Abstracts for presentations, which should align with one of the 6 break-out topics, must be submitted to the meeting website by COB, September 24, 2018.
DAYS 3-4 Community-Specific
The specific agenda for Days 3-4 will be developed in further consultation with the individual communities. As the agendas for each of the communities firm, they will be transmitted in a final form at a later time, along with other facilitating materials and background documents for the week-long meeting. Below are the preliminary topics under consideration for the community-specific meetings.
Earth System Modeling (Model Development) E3SM overview and coupled simulations - Project overview
- Water cycle experiment campaign
- BGC experiment campaign
- Cryosphere-ocean experiment campaign
E3SM – Next-generation-developments - Version 2 (working version) Atmospheric physics development
- Versions3-4 (future version) atmosphere development
- Land and energy developments
- Next generation coupled system science
E3SM Computation and Infrastructure - Performance (v2)
- Infrastructure (v2)
- New directions in E3SM computation (v3-v4)
Side session (evening?) E3SM simulation coordination (side meeting between E3SM and leaders of E3SM collaborating projects such as RGMA SFA’s)
Regional and Global Model Analysis (Model Analysis) RGMA Science Themes - Modes of Variability and Predictability
- Water Cycle
- Extremes
- High Latitude Feedbacks and Interactions
- Biogeochemical Feedbacks and Interactions
- Cloud-Earth System Feedbacks and Interactions
RGMA Cross-Cutting Themes - Diagnostics, Metrics, and Computational Tools/Approaches to Evaluate and Inform Models
- Multi-model approaches and hierarchies for Robust Understanding & Predictability
- CMIP6 Analysis
- Emulators and Uncertainty characterization
- Simulations and computational resources (synergies across RGMA SFAs & projects)
Multisector Dynamics - Hierarchical modeling and emulators – fit for purpose constructs
- Coupling methods, software, and advances
- Community data platforms
- Scenario research and development (integrated water cycle)
- Coastal: multisector dynamics, stressors, and transitions
- Community leadership, coordination, and working group(s)
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