CESM Tutorial 2025

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Monday, July 7th

Mesa Lab Main Seminar Room

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Welcome, Intro & Logistics

Hui Li & Elizabeth Faircloth

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CESM overview and intro to the coupled system 

Dave Lawrence

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Break (coffee)

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Atmosphere Modeling I: Dynamics 

Peter Lauritzen

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Break

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NCAR HPC environment 

Rory Kelly

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Intro to Lab: Basics of CESM 

Katherine Thayer-Calder

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Lab exercises 

Library

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Lunch on your own + activities (Cafeteria)
ML Public Tour (Meet at noon front door)

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Atmosphere Modeling II: Parameterizations 

Christina McCluskey & Meg Fowler

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Break

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Behind the scenes of model development 

Cécile Hannay

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Lab exercise check in 

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Lab exercises (Library)

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Daily debrief

Shuttle Departs ML

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Tuesday, July 8th

Mesa Lab Main Seminar Room

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Daily Logistics

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Land Modeling I: Biogeophysics 

Will Wieder

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Break

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Land Modeling II: Biogeochemistry/ecosystems 

Adrianna Foster

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Break

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Intro to Lab: XML changes 

Hui Li

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Lab Exercises
Library 

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Lunch on your own + activities 

ML private tour (12:00-1:00) 

Meet a scientist (Breakout rooms: 12:15-1:00)

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Sea-Ice Modeling 

Alice DuVivier

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Break 

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Lab exercises check-in 

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Lab exercises (Library)

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Daily debrief

Shuttle Departs ML 

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Wednesday, July 9th

Mesa Lab Main Seminar Room

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Daily logistics  

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Ocean Modeling I: basics and overview of models 

Gustavo Marques

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Break 

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Ocean Modeling II: parameterizations/physics 

Peter Gent

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Break

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 Intro to Lab: Namelist and code changes 

Cécile Hannay

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Lab exercises 

Library

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Lunch on your own + activities
Meet a scientist (Breakout rooms: 12:15-1:00)
ML Public Tour (Meet at noon front door) 

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Ocean Modeling III: biogeochemistry 

Keith Lindsay

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Break

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Lab exercises check in 

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Lab exercises 

Library

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Daily debrief

Shuttle Departs ML

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Thursday, July 10th

Mesa Lab Main Seminar Room

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Daily logistics  

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CAM-chem 

Rebecca Buchholz

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Break (Group photo) 

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WACCM 

Mijeong Park

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Break 

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Climate Variability 

Clara Deser

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Intro to Lab: diagnostics 

Jesse

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Lab exercises 

Library

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Lunch on your own + activities
ML private tour
Meet a scientist (Breakout rooms: 12:15-1:00)

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Land Ice Modeling 

Gunter Leguy

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Break

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Paleoclimate 

Sophia Macarewich

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Lab exercises check-in 

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Lab exercises 

Library

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Daily debrief 

Shuttle Departs ML

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Friday, July 11th

Mesa Lab Main Seminar Room

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Daily logistics 

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Simpler Models 

Brian Medeiros

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Variable resolution 

Adam Herrington

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Break

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Earth System Prediction 

Steve Yeager

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Intro to Lab: breakouts 

Multiple speakers

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Lab exercises 

Library

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Lunch on your own + activities
ML Public Tour (Meet at noon front door)

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Model porting 

Jim Edwards

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Break

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How CESM can be used for actionable science 

Monica Morrison

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Lab exercises

Library

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Wrap up, Daily check-in, Survey 

Shuttle Departs ML