2018-11 DOE Modeling PI Meeting + E3SM

As mentioned above, the first two days, Nov 5^th and 6^th, will focus on integrative and cross-cutting topics involving Model Development, Model Analysis, and Multisector Dynamics, while the 3^rd and 4^th days (Nov 6^th and Nov 7^th) 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:

1. Extreme-scale computational modeling
2. Extremes, variability, and change
3. Integrated water cycle

Parallel breakout sessions include:

1. Extremes - understanding and modeling single and compound extremes: storms, floods, droughts, heat waves, fire, and other climatologic, hydrologic, land, and socioeconomic disturbances
2. 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
3. High latitudes - science of coupled high-latitude systems, including feedbacks, interactions and teleconnections with lower latitudes
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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)

The plans for Nov 7-8 (days 3-4) are taking shape. One of those days will focus on E3SM Development and the other day will focus on Model Analysis activities. On the E3SM Development day (see draft agenda below), the priority will be to facilitate discussion among E3SM developers and related E3SM development projects (e.g. SciDAC and other University-led E3SM development projects). We should be able to accommodate many of the related projects with presentations on the E3SM development day, and we will be providing a way to submit abstracts (oral and poster) for those sessions in the coming weeks. If your work fits well within the integrated modeling program agenda (days 1-2, agenda attached) I would encourage you to submit an abstract there, since we probably will not be able to include (oral) presentations by all related E3SM PI’s on the E3SM day. The technical E3SM groups (computing, infrastructure) will meet on the Model Analysis day, since there is little overlap between these communities. It would also be acceptable to submit an abstract to the integrated program (days 1-2 – using the link above) and the E3SM day (instructions to follow) – i.e. up to 2 distinct presentations per person.

November 9 - Day 5 (Friday) will be a half-day of E3SM working-group meetings. Those in the E3SM development community are invited to attend these meetings.

E3SM Development Day Draft Agenda