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Earth and Environmental System Modeling (EESM) PI Meeting

William F. Bolger Center

9600 Newbridge Drive, Potomac, Maryland 20854

November 5 - 9, 2018

DAY 1 - Monday, November 5, 2018

Joint Session

8:45 - 9:20                    Inez Fung, University of California, Berkeley

Ecosystem-Water-Climate Dynamics: Lessons and New Challenges

9:20 - 9:55                    Patrick Reed, Cornell University

The Art of Complexity: Understanding Errors, Actions, and Exascale Community Ambitions in Multi-sector Modeling

9:55 - 10:15                  Break                                                                                      Franklin Building Lobby

Science Area (SA) Overviews

10:15 - 10:25                Dorothy Koch                                                                           Ben Franklin

Earth System Model Development

10:25 - 10:35                Renu Joseph

Regional and Global Model Analysis

10:35 - 10:45                Bob Vallario

Multisector Dynamics

Next Steps

10:45                           Renu Joseph

Panel Session in Plenary                                                                                            Ben Franklin

(Panelist remarks, panelist exchange, and audience interaction)

Poster Sessions (3 in parallel)

1:30 - 2:50    Extremes .    F21

                     Coastal Systems .   F1

                     Tools, Frameworks, and Transitions to Exascale .    F1

2:50 - 3:00                    Break                                                                                      Franklin Building Lobby

Panel Sessions in Plenary                                                                                          Ben Franklin

(Panelist remarks, panelist exchange, and audience interaction)

3:00 - 4:00                    Extreme Scale Computational Modeling

                                    Michael Wehner            LBNL, Coordinator/Moderator

                                    Peter Caldwell              LLNL

                                    Forrest Hoffman            ORNL

                                    Michael Pritchard          UC Irvine

                                    Mark Taylor                  SNL

4:00 - 5:00                    Extremes, Variability, and Change

DAY 2 - Tuesday, November 6, 2018 Joint Session

7:00                             Breakfast                                                                                Franklin Building Lobby

Morning Breakouts (3 in parallel)

8:00 - 10:30                  Extremes                                                                                Ben Franklin

Travis O’Brien               LBNL, Co-chair

Claudia Tebaldi            NCAR, Co-chair

Ian Sue Wing                Boston U, Co-chair

1. Abagail Snyder: Coherent Joint emulation of Earth

System Model Temperature-Precipitation Realizations: Fldgen v2.0

1. Céline Bonfils: Forced Changes in Temperature and Precipitation and their Influences on Global Changes in Vegetation Distribution or Aridity
2. Jiwen Fan: Wildfire Impact on Environment Thermodynamics and Severe Convective Storms
3. Stephen Price: Probabilistic Sea Level Projections from Ice Sheet and Earth System Models (ProSPect)
4. Colin Zarzycki: Investigating New Coastal Storm Metrics and

Domain Size Sensitivity over the Eastern U.S. with a Multidecadal VR-CESM

Coastal Systems                                                                                 F18-19

Mohamad Hejazi           PNNL, Co-chair Anastasia Piliouras LANL, Co-chair Phillip Wolfram              LANL, Co-chair

1. Zeli Tan: Soil Erosion and Organic Carbon, Riverine to Coastal Fluxes
2. Bill Collins: Extremes and Coastal Urban Systems
3. Nathan Urban: Climate Resilience and Coastal Impacts
4. Christa Brelsford: Coupled Infrastructure, Socioeconomic, and Natural Systems with a Tsunami Case Study

Tools, Frameworks, and Transitions to Exascale                               F3

Forrest Hoffman            ORNL, Co-chair

Phil Jones                    LANL, Co-chair

Pat Reed                      Cornell, Co-chair

1. Luca Bertagna: Exploring the Use of Kokkos in HOMME to Achieve Performance on Multiple Architectures
2. Phil Jones: How to Drive Your New Hybrid Computer
3. Michael Pritchard: Deep Learning to Represent Subgrid Cloud and Radiation Processes in Climate Models
4. Robert Jacob: The E3SM Code Development Process

Poster Sessions (3 in parallel)

12:10 - 1:10                  Lunch                                                                                      Osgood Dining Room

Afternoon Breakouts (3 in parallel)

1:10 - 3:30                    Land and Land System Dynamics                                                      F3

Gabe Kooperman         U of Georgia, Co-chair Ben Bond-Lamberty     U of MD, Co-chair Karen Fisher-Vanden     Penn State, Co-chair

1. Xiaojuan Yang: How the Sources and Sinks of Carbon are Affected by Phosphorus Cycle Dynamics in the Amazon Region - A Modeling Study using ELMv1
2. Adam Schlosser: Confronting Global Water Risks into an Unprecedented Era: Successes and Challenges with Risk-Based, Multi-Sector Predictions
3. David Lawrence: Applying ILAMB to Several Generations of the Community Land Model to Assess the Relative Contribution of Model Improvements and Forcing Uncertainty to Model-Data Agreement

1. Charlie Zender: Climatic Responses to Future Trans-Arctic Shipping
2. Matt Hoffman: Effects of Ocean and Ice Shelf Basal Melt Variability on Sea Level Rise Contribution from Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica
3. William Riley: Non-Growing Season High-Latitude Plant Nitrogen and Phosphorus Uptake Impact Land Interactions with the Atmosphere and Climate

Data, Metrics, and Diagnostics                                               Ben Franklin

Casey Burleyson          PNNL, Co-chair

Paul Ulrich                    UC Davis, Co-chair

Jill Zhang                     LLNL, Co-chair

1. Melissa Allen: Energy-Water Nexus Knowledge Discovery Framework: An Integrated Platform for Integration, Analysis, and Synthesis of Spatiotemporal Data
2. Peter Gleckler: Using the PCMDI Metrics Package to Provide Objective Performance Summaries of all CMIP Class Models
3. Khachik Sargsyan: Overview of Uncertainty Quantification Methods for Complex Models
4. Daniel Walton: Do Dynamical and Statistical Downscaling Fundamentally Disagree on Climate Change?

3:30 - 3:50                    Break                                                                                      Franklin Building Lobby

Breakout Session Report Outs (7-8 minutes)

3:50 - 4:40                                                                                                                    Ben Franklin

Extremes Coastal Systems

Tools, Frameworks, and Transitions to Exascale Land and Land System Dynamics

High Latitudes

Data, Metrics, and Diagnostics

Panel Session in Plenary: Interagency/Inter-organizational Perspectives

(Panelist remarks, panelist exchange, and audience interaction)

DAYS 3 - 5

Agendas Follow for: 

E3SM Community Model Development Activities

Regional and Global Model Analysis (RGMA) Activities

Multisector Dynamics Activities

E3SM Community Model Development Sessions

November 7-8 

DAY 3 - E3SM - Wednesday Nov 7, 2018

E3SM Community Model Development Activities

7:00                             Breakfast                                                                                Franklin Building Lobby

Programmatic and Project Updates                                                                            Ben Franklin

8:30 - 8:45                    Programmatic Updates

Dorothy Koch

8:45 - 9:00                    E3SM Project Updates

Dave Bader

E3SM Experimental Campaigns                                                                                 Ben Franklin

Community Engagement                                                                                            Ben Franklin

11:00 - 11:30                E3SM Release – How to Work with E3SM

Renata McCoy, Rob Jacob

Coupled System Science Plans                                                                                  Ben Franklin

11:30 - 12:00                Overview of E3SM Phase 2 Science and Development Plans

Ruby Leung

12:00 - 1:00                  Lunch                                                                                      Osgood Dining Room

Parallel Sessions - E3SM Future Developments and Partner Projects

1:00 - 2:30                    v2-v3 Atmospheric Physics                                                    Ben Franklin

Chair: Shaocheng Xie

• Overview of E3SM NGD-Atmospheric Physics for v2/v3 - Xie
• EAMv1P: Remarkable Improvements on Simulations of Present-Day Atmosphere - Ma
• A Unified Convection and Turbulence Parameterization: The EDMF Approach - Teixeira
• Organized Convection Parameterization - Moncrieff
• Implementation and Evaluation of the P3 Cloud Microphysics in the E3SM Atmosphere Model - Zhang
• Solar Radiation Benchmark - Prather

1:00 - 2:30                    v2-v4 Land/Energy                                                                              F3

Chair: Ben Bond-Lamberty

• Responses of the Carbon, Energy and Water Fluxes to Different Land Use and Land Cover Products in E3SM - Jain

• Economic Carbon Cycle Feedbacks May Offset Additional Warming from Natural Feedbacks - Randerson
• Connecting Climate Models to Energy Impacts - Evans (for Deeksha Rastogi)
• Soil Erosion Causes Substantial Loss of Terrestrial Carbon and Nutrients in Coastal Zones - Tan
• Precipitation Downscaling Method for Topography-Based Subgrid Structure in E3SM - Tesfa

2:30 - 3:30                    v3-v4 Atmosphere – Cloud-Resolving-Scales                        Ben Franklin

Chair: Peter Caldwell

• Global Cloud-Resolving E3SM Overview - Caldwell
• Superparameterized E3SM - Hillman
• E3SM-FIVE Overview - Yamaguchi
• The Non-Hydrostatic Dycore Effort - Steyer

2:30 - 3:30                    v2-v4 Ocean/Cryosphere Developments                                            F3

Chair: Mark Peterson

• Overview of Ocean/cryosphere Development - Petersen and Price
• Ocean Vertical Mixing - Van Roekel
• Coastal Modeling - Wolfram
• Icebergs in E3SM - Comeau

3:30 - 4:00                    Break                                                                                      Franklin Building Lobby

4:00 - 5:30                    Coupled System Science – Results and                                 Ben Franklin

Future Directions

Chair: Susannah Burrows

• Overview - Burrows
• Some General Considerations about the Surface-Atmosphere Radiative Coupling in the Earth System Mode - Huang
• Land Cryosphere Biases and Their Impact on Atmosphere-Surface Exchange in E3SMv1 - Brunke
• High-Resolution Fully-Coupled E3SMv0.1 Approximate Present Day Transient Climate Simulations – McClean
• Global Phosphorus Redistribution and Climate Impacts from Wildfires in E3SM - Xu

Awards and Deep-Dives Performance                                                                        Ben Franklin 6:00

Award Presentations

Dr. Sharlene Weatherwax

6:30                             Deep Dives Performance

DAY 4 - E3SM -Thursday, November 8, 2018

E3SM Community Model Development Activities

7:00                             Breakfast                                                                                Franklin Building Lobby

Computation and Software                                                                                                     F9

8:30 - 9:00                    E3SM Computational Overview

Mark Taylor

9:00 - 10:00                  E3SM Performance

Chair: Phil Jones

• Performance Improvement from Semi-Lagrangian Transport - Bosler/Guba
• Improving Performance via Physics/Dynamics Coupling - Donahue
• Performance Analytics Tool (PACE) - Sreepathi
• Visualizing Performance Profile - Keen

10:00 - 10:30                Break                                                                                      Franklin Building Lobby

10:30 - 11:30                E3SM Infrastructure                                                                            F9

Chair: Rob Jacob

• Diagnostics Package for Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM_diags) - Zhang
• New Infrastructure and Examples of Code Verification in E3SM - Wilke
• Using LIVVkit to Evaluate Ice Sheet Surface Mass Balance in E3SM - Kennedy
• Modernization of the E3SM Single-Column Model - Bogenschutz

11:30 - 12:30                E3SM Next-Generation Software/Algorithms                                      F9

Chair: Andy Salinger

• Improving Solution Accuracy and Convergence for Physics Parameterizations - Wan
• The Discrete Element Model for Sea Ice - Turner
• Improving ESM Predictions Using New Surrogate Modeling Approaches and Observation Networks - Ricciuto
• Beyond Bit-for-Bit, Reproducibility Testing CMDV-SM - Kennedy/Mahajan

12:30 - 1:30                  Lunch                                                                                      Osgood Dining Room

1:00                    Informal Discussion on Next-Generation Approaches to High-Resolution Model Initialization                         F9 

Poster Sessions

1:30 - 5:30                    E3SM Community Poster Session

1:30 - 3:30                    E3SM Community Poster Session 1                                                   F1

• E3SM – v1 Results – BGC
• E3SM – v1 Results – Ocean-Cryosphere
• E3SM – v1 Results – Water Cycle
• E3SM – Ocean/Cryosphere (v2-v4)

3:30 - 5:30                    E3SM Community Poster Session 2                                                   F1

• E3SM – Land/Energy
• E3SM – v4 Atmosphere
• E3SM – v2/v3 Atmospheric Physics
• E3SM – Next Generation Coupled System Science
• E3SM – Performance (v2)
• E3SM – Infrastructure (v2)
• E3SM – NGD-computation (v3-v4)

Evening Session

7:00 - 8:00                    E3SM Simulation Coordination Meeting                                              F3

DAY 5 - E3SM - Friday, November 9, 2018

E3SM Community Model Development Activities

7:00                             Breakfast                                                                                Franklin Building Lobby

Parallel Sessions - E3SM Project Group Meetings

10:00 - 10:30                Break                                                                                      Franklin Building Lobby

Parallel Sessions - E3SM Project Group Meetings

Parallel Sessions - E3SM Project Group Meetings

DAY 1 - RGMA - Monday, November 5, 2018

Regional and Global Model Analysis (RGMA) Activities

6:30 - 8:00 p.m.            Group Meeting – Interannual to Multidecadal Variability:                        F3 Variability, Predictability, and Change

Contact Ben Kirtman, Wilbert Weijer, or Forrest Hoffman (forrest@climatemodeling.org)

if you’d like to participate

DAY 2 - RGMA - Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Regional and Global Model Analysis (RGMA) Activities

6:30 - 8:00 p.m.            Group Meeting – Synoptic to Interannual Variability:                              F3 Variability, Predictability, and Change

Contact Travis O’ Brien (TAOBrien@lbl.gov)

if you’d like to participate

DAY 3 - RGMA - Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Regional and Global Model Analysis (RGMA) Activities