Research Highlights | Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling

Project: Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM)

Title		Contact	Institution
Biospheric Feedback Effects in a Synchronously Coupled Model of Human and Earth Systems	ESMD	Peter Thornton	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Accounting for Groundwater Use and Return Flow Improves Modeling of Water Management	ESMD MSD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Isopycnal Eddy Mixing across the Kuroshio Extension: Stable versus unstable states in an eddying model	ESMD RGMA	Julie L. McClean	Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)
Climate Mitigation from Vegetation Biophysical Feedbacks during the Past Three Decades	ESMD RGMA	Xiaoying Shi	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Gone with the Wind: The Trans-Pacific Journey of Atmospheric Particles	ESMD RGMA	Evgueni Kassianov	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Hope for Constraining Atmospheric Particles’ Effects on Clouds	ESMD RGMA	Steven J Ghan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Evaluating Climate Simulations against Aircraft Measurements	ESMD	Phil Rasch	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Fire Affects Global Land Temperatures and Energy Flows by Restructuring Ecosystems	ESMD	Ben Bond Lamberty	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Representing Floodplain Inundation in an Earth System Model	ESMD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Dust and Organic Sea Spray Contribute to Cloud Freezing	ESMD	Susannah Burrows	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
New Topography-Based Subgrid Units Improve Land-Surface Modeling	ESMD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Detecting Modeling Problems Early and Quickly	ESMD	Hui Wan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Measuring the Impact of Mesoscale Eddies in the Ocean’s Climate	ESMD	Todd D Ringler	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Compiler Technologies for Understanding Legacy Scientific Code	ESMD	Dali Wang	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
A High Order Characteristic Discontinuous Galerkin Scheme for Advection on Unstructured Meshes	ESMD	David Lee	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Bit Grooming Improves Precision/Compression Ratio	ESMD	Charles S. Zender	University of California Irvine (UC Irvine)
Explicit Aqueous Phase Redox and pH Dynamics Added to the Converging Trophic Cascade (CTC) Decomposition Model	ESMD	Peter E. Thornton	Climate Change Science Institute
Global Model Improved by Incorporating New Hypothesis for Vegetation Nutrient Limitation, Supported by Field Experiment	ESMD	Peter E. Thornton	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Phosphorus Feedbacks Constraining Tropical Ecosystem Responses to Changes in Atmospheric CO2 and Climate	ESMD RGMA	Xiaojuan Yang	Climate Change Science Institute
Human-Induced Greening of the Northern Extratropical Land Surface	ESMD RGMA	Jiafu Mao	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Representing Leaf and Root Physiological Traits in CLM Improves Global Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling Predictions	ESMD	William J. Riley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
A Generic Law-of-the-Minimum Flux Limiter for Simulating Substrate Limitation in Biogeochemical Models	ESMD	William J. Riley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Multiple Soil Nutrient Competition between Plants, Microbes, and Mineral Surfaces	ESMD	William J. Riley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Implementing and Evaluating Variable Soil Thickness in the Community Land Model, Version 4.5 (CLM4.5)	ESMD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Classification of Hydrological Parameter Sensitivity and Evaluation of Parameter Transferability across 431 US MOPEX Basins	ESMD	Maoyi Huang	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Uncertainty Quantification in Climate Modeling and Projection	ESMD	Yun Qian	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Tracking Aerosol Lifetimes using Radioactive Tracers	ESMD	Hailong Wang	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Aerosol Effects on Different Types of Clouds	ESMD RGMA	Steven J. Ghan	Nanjing University - Institute for Climate and Global Change
An Improved Minimal Representation of Aerosols for Climate Models	ESMD	Steven J. Ghan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
A new conceptual model of short-term photosynthate storage and transport based on experimental observations	ESMD	Jiafu Mao	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

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