28–31 Jan 2020
Museum am Rothenbaum
Europe/Berlin timezone

Variable-Resolution Ocean Modeling with E3SM and MPAS-Ocean

28 Jan 2020, 11:30
30m
Großer Hörsaal (Museum am Rothenbaum)

Großer Hörsaal

Museum am Rothenbaum

Rothenbaumchaussee 64 20148 Hamburg
Talk COMMODORE conference

Speaker

Mark Petersen (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Description

The Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), developed by the US Department of Energy, was first released in 2018, and has completed a suite of DECK/CMIP6 simulations and subsequent publications. The components of E3SM are all variable resolution and include the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) ocean and sea ice, which are based on unstructured horizontal meshes using Voronoi tessellations. E3SM-version 1 performs well overall with biases typical of other CMIP‐class models, although the simulated Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is weaker than many CMIP‐class models, and its equilibrium climate sensitivity is high at 5.3K. Here we provide an overview of E3SM progress, results from new regionally-refined simulations, and details of our algorithms and continued development of MPAS-Ocean.

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Authors

Mark Petersen (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Xylar Asay-Davis (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Darren Engwirda (Columbia University) Luke Van Roekel (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Phillip Wolfram (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

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