Research Highlights | Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling

Title		Contact	Institution
Faster Storm Surge Modeling with Local Time-Stepping	ESMD	Darren Engwirda	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Exploring Multiscale Earth System and Human–Earth System Dynamics in the Puget Sound Region	ESMD RGMA MSD	Ning Sun	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Gridded Water Properties for Chesapeake Bay for Model Validation, Development, and Discovery	ESMD RGMA MSD	Jemma Stachelek	Los Alamos National Laboratory
DOE Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) Version 2	ESMD RGMA	Chris Golaz	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Evaluation of Simulated Cloud Phase in EAMv2 at High Latitudes	ESMD RGMA	Shaocheng Xie	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Humboldt Glacier, Northern Greenland, is Likely to Contribute Twice as Much to 21st Century Sea Level Rise as Previously Thought	ESMD	Trevor Hillebrand	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Investigating Coastal Backwater Effects and Flooding in the Coastal Zone Using a Global River Transport Model on an Unstructured Mesh	ESMD	Dongyu Feng	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Bedrock Uplift to Reduce Thwaites Glacier Retreat by 20% or More	ESMD	Matthew Hoffman	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Understanding the Impacts of Dust and Sea Salt Mixing States on Nitrate Aerosol	ESMD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Improving Tidal Modeling with Self-Attraction and Loading	ESMD	Darren Engwirda	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Quantifying the Importance of Cryosuction in Permafrost-Rich Soils	ESMD RGMA MSD	Ethan Coon	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
What Drives Rapid Vertical Exchange in Northern Gulf of Mexico Water?	ESMD RGMA MSD	Robert Hetland	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Existence of Channelized Subglacial Discharge Beneath Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica	ESMD	Matthew Hoffman	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Understanding How Plants Respond to Coexisting Soil and Air Dryness in Global Simulations	ESMD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Assessing How the Atmosphere Responds to Land Surface Diversity	ESMD	Po-Lun Ma	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Understanding How Algorithms for Simulating Water Transport in Plants Affect Vegetation Modeling	ESMD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Islet: Interpolation Semi-Lagrangian Element-Based Transport	ESMD	Andrew M. Bradley	Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)
Calibrating a Runoff Generation Scheme at Global Scale	ESMD	Ian Kraucunas	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Impacts of Lake Surface Temperature on the Summer Climate Over the Great Lakes Region	ESMD RGMA MSD	Rob Hetland	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
How Increasing Carbon Dioxide Levels Affect Daytime Rainfall in Tropical Forests	ESMD RGMA	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
A Diagnostics Package to Evaluate Aerosols in an Earth System Model with Field Campaign Measurements	ESMD	Po-Lun Ma	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
High-Order Multirate Explicit Time-Stepping Schemes for the Baroclinic-Barotropic Split Dynamics in Primitive Equations	ESMD	Lili Ju	University of South Carolina
Sea-Ice Dynamics on Unstructured Voronoi Meshes in MPAS-Seaice	ESMD	Adrian K. Turner	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Understanding and Reducing the Uncertainties of Land Surface Energy Flux Partitioning Within CMIP6 Land Models	ESMD RGMA	William J. Riley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Ocean Critters Brighten Clouds and Help Cool the Planet	ESMD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Online Diagnostics Make Analyzing Modeled Atmospheric Processes Easier and More Efficient	ESMD	Hui Wan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Attribution of 2020 Hurricane Season Extreme Rainfall to Human-Induced Climate Change	ESMD RGMA MSD	Michael Wehner	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Better Calibration Leads to a Significant Improvement in Model Fidelity	ESMD RGMA	Po-Lun Ma	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Global Field Observations of Tree Die-Off Reveal Hotter-Drought Fingerprint for Earth’s Forests	ESMD RGMA	Jason Smerdon	Columbia University
Modeling Advances Improve Understanding of Seasonal to Decadal Sea Ice Predictability	ESMD RGMA	Elizabeth Hunke	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

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