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Project: Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM)

Title		Contact	Institution
Improving the Representation of Methane Dynamics in Global Lake Models	ESMD	Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mesoscale Convective Systems Represented in High Resolution E3SMv2 and Impact of New Cloud and Convection Parameterizations	ESMD RGMA	Shaocheng Xie	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
New Momentum, Stress, and Transport Schemes for the CICE Sea Ice Model on a C-Grid	ESMD	Elizabeth C. Hunke	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Refactoring the Elastic-Viscous-Plastic (EVP) Sea Ice Dynamics Solver	ESMD	Elizabeth C. Hunke	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Improving Aerosol Radiative Forcing and Climate in DOE’s E3SM	ESMD	Jiwen Fan	Argonne National Laboratory
Stabilized Bases for High-Order, Interpolation Semi-Lagrangian, Element-Based Tracer Transport	ESMD	Andrew M. Bradley	Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)
xCDAT: A Python Package for Simple and Robust Analysis of Climate Data	ESMD RGMA	Tom Vo	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Meltwater Triggers for an Antarctic Ice-Shelf Melt Tipping Point	ESMD	Matthew Hoffman	Los Alamos National Laboratory
The Effect of Physically Based Ice Radiative Processes on Greenland Ice Sheet Albedo and Surface Mass Balance in E3SM	ESMD	Chloe Clarke (cwhicker@uci.edu)	University of Michigan - Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
A Standard Set of Test Cases for Ocean Model Development	ESMD	Mark R. Petersen	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Autocalibration of the E3SM Atmosphere Model Improves Model Fidelity	ESMD	Benjamin M Wagman	Sandia National Laboratories
Quantifying the long-term changes of terrestrial water storage and their driving factors	ESMD RGMA	Jiafu Mao	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Plant Responses to Elevated CO2 Under Competing Hypotheses of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Limitations	ESMD RGMA	Qing Zhu	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Careful Coupling Improves High-Resolution Climate Simulation	ESMD	Hui Wan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Recurving Eastern Pacific hurricanes reduce Southwest U.S. Wildfires	ESMD RGMA	Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Significance of Improved Initialization in Climate Models for Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Precipitation Prediction	ESMD	Qi Tang	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Understanding Changes in Cloud Simulations from E3SM Version 1 to Version 2	ESMD	Shaocheng Xie	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Snow Droughts are Not Solely Driven by Abnormal Snowfall and Temperature	ESMD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
How Increasing Resolution Changes the CONUS Water Cycle	ESMD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Region and Cloud Regime Dependence of Parametric Sensitivity in E3SM Atmosphere Model	ESMD	Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Improving Climate Variability Simulation in E3SM by Incorporating the Dynamical Effect of Large-Scale Vertical Motion on Convection	ESMD RGMA	Xiaoliang Song	Scripps Institution of Oceanography
First Use of Shallow Ice Cores to Constrain Precipitation Over Ice Sheets	ESMD	Charlie Zender	University of California Irvine (UC Irvine)
Opposite Trends of Wind-Associated Melt in Greenland and Antarctica	ESMD	Charlie Zender	University of California Irvine (UC Irvine)
Evaluation of Arctic and Antarctic Mixed-Phase Cloud Properties in E3SMv2 Using ARM Observations	ESMD RGMA	Shaocheng Xie	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Assessing Tropical Pacific-induced Predictability of Southern California Precipitation Using Machine Learning	ESMD	Salil Mahajan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Global Evaluation of Terrestrial Biogeochemistry in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM)	ESMD	Xiaojuan Yang	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Do Models Produce Consistently Different Outcomes Between Scenarios with Different Land Use Change Patterns?	ESMD RGMA	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Simulation of Diverse ENSO Teleconnections to Extremes in High Resolution Earth System Models	ESMD	Salil Mahajan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Emulation of Sub-Ice Shelf Melt Forcing Using High-Fidelity E3SM Simulations	ESMD	Stephen F. Price	Los Alamos National Laboratory
The June 2012 North American Derecho: A Testbed for Regional and Cloud-System Resolving Models	ESMD RGMA	Paul A. Ullrich	University of California - Davis

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