Research Highlights | Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling

Project: Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM)

Title		Contact	Institution
Preconditioning and Formation of Maud Rise Polynyas in a High-Resolution Earth System Model	ESMD RGMA	Milena Veneziani	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Weaker Land–Climate Feedbacks From Nutrient Uptake During Photosynthesis-Inactive Periods	ESMD	William J. Riley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Snow in the Changing Sea-ice Systems	ESMD	Elizabeth Hunke	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Quantifying Uncertainty in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model	ESMD	Yun Qian	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Unified Treatment of Hydrologic Processes in Unsaturated and Saturated Zones Within the E3SM Land Model	ESMD	Gautam Bisht	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Model Resolution Sensitivity of the Simulation of North Atlantic Oscillation Teleconnections to Precipitation Extremes	ESMD	Salil Mahajan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Quantifying Human-Mediated Carbon Cycle Feedbacks	ESMD	Andrew D. Jones	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Understanding Cloud and Precipitation Characteristics in Version 1 of the E3SM Atmosphere Model		Shaocheng Xie	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
As Ecosystems Heat Up, Tundra Changes Speed Up	ESMD	Ben Bond-Lamberty	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
A Fresh Look at the K-Profile Parameterization and Evaluating it Against Large Eddy Simulation Results	ESMD	Luke Van Roekel	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) - Theoretical Divison
MPAS-Albany Land Ice (MALI): A Variable-Resolution Ice Sheet Model for Earth System Modeling Using Voronoi Grids	ESMD	Matthew J. Hoffman	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Eroding Gaps in Understanding the Global Carbon Cycle	ESMD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Quality Control for Community Based Sea Ice Model Development	ESMD RGMA	Elizabeth Hunke	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
An Overview of Interactions and Feedbacks Between Ice Sheets and the Earth System	ESMD	Jeremy Fyke	Associated Engineering Group of Companies
Integrating Human System Dynamics Into Earth System Models	ESMD	Kate Calvin	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Finding the Leaks That Could Sink a Great Ship	ESMD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Contribution of Environmental Forcings to US Runoff Changes for the Period 1950–2010	ESMD RGMA	Jiafu Mao	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Strong Dependence of Simulated Carbon-Nitrogen Dynamics on Numerical Coupling Between Nitrogen Uptake and Mineralization Processes	ESMD RGMA	William J. Riley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
The Role of Convective Gustiness in Reducing Seasonal Precipitation Biases in the Tropical West Pacific	ESMD	Philip Rasch	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
The Impact of Parametric Uncertainties on Biogeochemistry in the E3SM Land Model	ESMD	Daniel Ricciuto	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Quantifying the Effects of Historical Land Cover Conversion Uncertainty on Global Carbon and Climate Estimates	ESMD MSD	William D. Collins	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Glacial Moulin Formation Triggered by Rapid Lake Drainage	ESMD	Matthew Hoffman	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Impacts of Microtopographic Snow Redistribution and Lateral Subsurface Processes on Hydrologic and Thermal States in an Arctic Polygonal Ground Ecosystem: A Case Study Using ELM-3D v1.0	ESMD	William J. Riley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
A Global Data Analysis for Representing Sediment and Particulate Organic Carbon Yield in Earth System Models	ESMD	Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Prognostic Plant Traits	ESMD	Ethan Butler	University of Minnesota
A Novel Way to Compute Ocean Mixing with Particles	ESMD	Phillip J. Wolfram	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Lateral Processes Dominate Control of Water Available to Tropical Forests	ESMD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Understanding Current and Eddy Contributions to Ocean Mixing	ESMD	Phillip J. Wolfram	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Simulating the Global Water Cycle with A High Spatial-Resolution Climate Model	ESMD	Christopher Terai	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Explicit Consideration of Irrigation Source and Method Matters for Modeling Irrigation Effects	ESMD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

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