CESM Workshop 2025

 Registration 

Welcome

Everette Joseph, NCAR Director 

David Lawrence

CESM Distinguished Achievement Award 

Ping Chang

 

CESM Graduate Student Award

Giovanni Seijo-Ellis 

 

Jonah Shaw

Break

Plenary Speakers, focal topics: Applications of Earth System Predictability, Science → Impact, Incorporating Social Dynamics models  

• Dr. Hansi Singh 

  From Earth System Science to Societal Impact: One Scientist's Journey

• Dr. Paula R. Buchanan  

  Bridging the Gap: Communicating Earth System Science to Stakeholders, Communities, and Decision Makers
• Dr. Michael Barton - Mind the Gap: Human Systems are a Missing, Critical Component for Earth Systems Modeling 

Lunch

Break

Atmosphere Working Group Agenda

Watch on YouTube

 

1:30pm- Peter Lauritzen

1:36pm- Vincent Larson

1:48pm- Ben Stephens

2:00pm- Adam Herrington

2:12pm- Brandon Duran (Remote)

2:24pm- Ada Gjermundsen (Remote)

2:36pm- 

2:48pm- Wei-Liang Lee

3:00pm- Break

3:30pm- Aaron Johnson

3:42pm- Christiane Jablonowski

3:54pm- Lan Luan

4:06pm- Dave Randall

4:18pm- Timothy Andrews

4:30pm- Owen Hughes

4:42pm- Hing Ong

4:54pm- Discussion

5:00pm- Adjourn

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 Land Model Working Group Agenda

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1:30pm- Will Wieder

 

1:35pm- Yuan Sun (Remote)

 

1:50pm- Junjie Yu (Remote)

 

2:05pm- Peter Lawrence

 

2:20pm- Charlie Koven

 

2:35pm- Will Wieder

 

2:50pm- Discussion

3:00pm- Break

3:30pm- Will Wieder

 

3:35pm- Linnia Hawkins

 

3:50pm- Ignacio Aguirre Belmar

 

4:05pm-  Aya Lahlou

 

4:20pm- Flavio Lehner

 

4:35pm-  Hyunyoung Oh (Remote)

 

4:50pm- Discussion

5:00pm- Adjourn

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Land Ice Working Group Agenda 

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1:30pm- Gunter Leguy

1:48pm- Kate Thayer-Calder

2:00pm- Robin Smith (Remote)

2:15pm- Kaixuan Kang

2:30pm- Shaina Sadai (Remote)

2:45pm- David Behar (Remote)

3:00pm- BREAK

3:30pm- Michele Petrini

3:45pm- Fairuz Ishraque

4:00pm- Miren Vizcaino

4:15pm- Ziqi Yin (Remote)

4:30pm- Rachel Middleton

4:45pm- Samar Minallah

5:00pm- Adjourn

Poster Session and Information Exchange 

Climate Variability and Change Working Group Agenda

8:30am- Isla Simpson, Aixue, Hu, Sarah Larson

8:40am-Kezhou (Melody) Lu

8:50am- Prasad Shelke

9:00am- Jayron-Perez Carrasquilla

9:10am- Jonah Shaw

9:20am- Yan-Ning Kuo

9:30am- Paul Curtis

9:40am- Jacob Stuivenvolt-Allen

9:50am-  Asiya Badarunnisa Saunudeen

10:00am- BREAK

10:30am- Wei Liu

10:40am- Yue Dong

10:50am- Glenn Liu

11:00am- Kai Huang

11:10am- Charlotte DeMott

11:20am- Mitch Moncrieff

11:30am- Kwesi Quagraine

11:40am- Haruki Hirasawa

11:50am- Erin Emme

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Chemistry Climate Working Group Agenda

8:30am  - CMIP7 development updates for chemistry - Simone Tilmes/ Rebecca Buchholz

8:45am - Model-measurement comparisons during Australian extreme bushfires: MUSICA and AQFx - Samantha Lee (remote)

9:00am - Simulated wildfire aerosols reduce global mean surface temperatures by up to 1 degree Celsius - Sean Leister

9:15am - Analysis of ASIA-AQ observations with MUSICAv0 - Louisa Emmons

9:30am - Modeling Investigation of Volatile Methyl Siloxane Oxidation, Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation, and Aging Using CESM-MUSICA - Saeideh Mohammadi

9:45am - Discussion

10:00am - Break

10:30am - Arctic halogens reduce ozone in the northern mid-latitudes - Rafael Pedro Fernandez

10:45am - Investigating the role of chemistry on the methane budget in emission-driven CH4 simulations - Benjamin Gaubert

11:00am - Distinct Efficacy of Regional Emissions in Affecting Global Methane Concentrations:  A Modeling Study with Interactive Methane Chemistry and Emission Tags - Chuan Feng

11:15am - Diagnosing the OH response to ENSO and its underlying drivers - Qindan Zhu

11:30am - The CESM Chemical Forecast System: A Summary of Capabilities and What’s Next - Shawn Honomichl (remote)

11:45am - Discussion
 

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Biogeochemistry Working Group Agenda

8:30am- Update on land carbon change in Flat10MIP experiments- Abby Swann
8:45am-  Land Carbon Cycle Dynamics in Flat10MIP simulations - Charlie Koven
9:00am-  The role of AMOC in TCRE and ZEC in emissions driven simulations - Anastasia (Natassa) Romanou (Remote)
9:15am-  Understanding the atmospheric chemistry imprint of tropical deforestation - Jim Randerson
9:30am-  Comparative ability of soil biogeochemistry submodels for reproducing terrestrial carbon cycling in a grassland multiple global change experiment - Katherine Rocci
9:45am-  Modeling the Terrestrial Mercury-Carbon Cycle in the Arctic  - Christine Olson
10:00am-  BREAK

BGCWG + Polar

10:30am- The imprint of Southern Ocean storms on modeled surface chlorophyll, their drivers and satellite biases - Cara Nissen (Remote)
10:45am- Simulating the Oceanic Nitrous Oxide (N2O) - Based on CESM2 - Shanlin Wang
11:00am- Sea icescape and Antarctic marine ecosystem productivity in the CESM2 - Laura Landrum
11:15am- Quantifying changes in phytoplankton productivity under sea ice in the Arctic and Southern Ocean - Courtney Payne
11:30am- Alaskan Salmon Responses to Changing River Conditions - Kristina Black
11:45am- Increasing boreal fires reduce future global warming and sea ice loss - Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth 

Break

Lunch

"Optional" Faculty Network for Teaching with CESM 

Software Engineering Working Group Agenda

1:00pm- Ligia Bernardet, Michael Levy

1:10pm- Ann Tsay

1:25pm- Ligia Bernardet

1:40pm- Jesse Nusbaumer

1:55pm- Erik Kluzek

2:10pm- Christopher Harrop

2:25pm- Phillip Chielowiec

2:40 pm- Discussion

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Ocean Model Working Group Agenda

1:00pm- Introduction - Grooms & Marques
1:05pm- Evolving Southern Ocean overturning in warming climates - Tingting Zhu
1:20pm- Evaluating Southern Ocean Heat Uptake in High- and Low-Resolution Climate Models - Antony Thomas
1:35pm- To eddy resolve or not to eddy resolve: Do we need high resolution ocean models to adequately simulate marine heatwaves in the Northwest Atlantic? - Rudradutt Thaker
1:50pm- CESM has more subpolar North Atlantic water mass transformation than other ocean models - Taydra Low
2:05pm- Process Oriented Diagnostics for North Atlantic Ocean model biases - Elizabeth Maroon
2:20pm- TheoryWaves in CESM3 - Paul Hall
2:35pm- Phytoplankton response under SAI differs due to upgrading MARBL configuration from 3p1z to 4p2z - Joshua Coupe
2:50pm- Discussion - Marques & Grooms

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Polar Climate Working Group Agenda

1:00pm- Introduction/Welcome - Co-chairs
1:00pm- Observation-oriented CAM6 experiments on Southern Ocean Cloud Condensation Nuclei and Clouds - Qing Niu
1:15pm- Exploring the Local Atmospheric Response to Antarctic Sea Ice Loss - Chloe Boehm
1:30pm- C-ICESat-2: a (short) constrained estimate of global sea ice thickness from daily laser altimeter freeboard observations - Molly Wieringa
1:45pm- Constraining CMIP6 and CESM sea ice simulations with ICESat-2 - Alek Petty (Remote)
2:00pm- Where does snow become rain with atmospheric warming? - Jennifer Kay
2:15pm- Isolating the Contribution of Observed Winds to Recent Arctic Warming and Sea Ice Loss - Ash Gilbert
2:30pm- Simulating microplastics in the Arctic using CESM2 - Lingwei Li
2:45pm- Polar Biases in the CESM3 Development Simulations - David Bailey
3:00pm- Adjourn

Break

CESM 30th Anniversary (history talks, round-table with former Chief Scientists) 

CESM 30th Workshop Anniversary Celebration 

Cross Working Groups:

8:30am- Introduction and Logistics - Organizers
8:35am- Nonlocal Deep Learning Parameterization for Process Representation in Climate Models - Aman Gupta
8:50am- Data-driven Models for Predicting Precipitation - Ramalingham Saravanan
9:05am- Distilling machine learning-based climate emulators for physical understanding - Senne Van Loon
9:20am- Machine learning enhanced CESM3 - Dave Lawrence
9:35am- Discussion
10:00am- BREAK
10:30am- Implementing a Neural Network scheme for deep convection in CAM6 and testing it in a hierarchy of idealized configurations - Xavier Levine (Remote)
10:45am- CAM-NET: An AI Foundation Model for Whole Atmosphere with Thermosphere and Ionosphere Extension - Jiahui Hu 
11:00am- Generating large ensembles of precipitation extremes from CESM simulations via denoising diffusion models - Mengze Wang & Iris de Vries
11:15am- Community Research Earth Digital Intelligence Twin (CREDIT): Overview and Integration with CESM - David John Gagne
11:30am- CAMulator - Emulation of the Community Atmosphere Model - Will Chapman
11:45am- Discussion
 

8:30am- Projected Increase of Tropical Cyclone Induced Extreme Rainfall Over Coastal Areas Under Climate Change - Dan Fu
8:42am- Does model resolution impact its ECS and TCR? - Fred Castruccio
8:54am- Insights into Regional Sea Level Rise from a High-Resolution CESM Ensemble - John Fasullo
9:06am- The role of variability changes for future extreme precipitation – can high resolution models reduce the uncertainty? - Iris de Vries
9:18am - DYAMOND simulations with CESM3 - Adam Herrington
9:30am- A Parallel Effort: E3SM's Plans for High Resolution - Peter Caldwell
9:42am- Convection transition and convection organization over land: Case studies using regionally refined-SCREAM and ARM observations - His-Yen Ma
9:54am- Kilometer-scale downscaling of CESM2 Large Ensemble simulations over CONUS - Alexander Thompson
10:06am- BREAK
10:36am- Altered NAO - North Atlantic SST Feedback in Mesoscale Resolving Simulations - Joas Muller (Remote)
10:48am- Representation and projections of midlatitude extreme wind speeds in the variable-resolution Community Earth System Model - Lucas Prates
11:00am- Increased Model Resolution Amplifies Arctic Precipitation and Atmospheric Circulation Response to Sea-Ice Loss - Lantao Sun
11:12am- Leveraging Variable-Resolution CESM to Understand the Drivers of a Historic Rain-on-Snow Flooding Event in Glacier National Park - Kyle Nardi
11:24am- Various Types of Latent Heating Structures and the role of Western Boundary Current over the Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension Region - Dong Wan Kim
11:36am- Developing Actionable Regional Climate Models and Data for Communities and Decision-makers Across Alaska and the Yukon River - Andrew Newman
11:48am- NSF StormSPEED: Enabling Global Convection-Permitting Simulations with CESM3 - Nicholas Forcone

Break

Lunch

Earth System Predictability Working Group Agenda

1:00pm-  Leveraging CESM2 data for machine learning based S2S forecasting - Anisha Pal
1:15pm- The fidelity of land-atmosphere interactions in CESM - Paul Dirmeyer
1:30pm- Benefits of an online bias-correction for S2S forecasts - Judith Berner
1:45pm- Quantifying sources of subseasonal prediction skill in CESM2 within a perfect modeling framework - Abby Jaye
2:00pm- The impacts of vertical resolution on seasonal predictability in a new CESM suite of seasonal hindcasts - Isla Simpson
2:15pm- The Influence of Tropical-Extratropical Interactions on Northeast Pacific Marine Heatwave Predictability in CESM - Evan Meeker
2:30pm- BREAK

3:00pm- AMOC and subpolar North Atlantic Ocean predictability in CMIP6 decadal prediction simulations - Dylan Oldenburg 
3:15pm- 2019-2020 Australian bushfire smoke, multi-year La Niña, and implications for the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) - Jerry Meehl
3:30pm- Efficient Drift Correction of Initialized Predictions - Steve Yeager
3:45pm- Co-Chairs Update & Discussion 
4:00pm- ADJOURN

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Whole Atmosphere Working Group Agenda

1:00pm- WAWG Development Updates - Martina Bramberger & Nick Pedatella
1:15pm- Dynamical and chemical variabilities in CESM3-WACCM7- Mijeong Park 
1:30pm- Record-high Ozone in Southern Mid-latitude Tropopause Region Driven by Dynamical and Chemical Effects of the 2019 Sudden Stratospheric Warming - Selena Zhang (Remote)
1:45pm- Contribution of gravity waves to the lower thermospheric winter-to-summer meridional circulation in high-resolution WACCM-X - Dai Koshin
2:00pm- WACCM-X studies of the thermospheric hydrogen response to solar activity and to impacts of greenhouse gases across atmospheric regions- Susan Nossal
2:15pm- Seasonal Changes in the Thermosphere from WACCM-X Future 21st Century Projections - Joe McInerney
2:30pm- Break
3:00pm- Recent updates on representing large volcanic eruptions in CESM - Daniele Visioni
3:15pm- G2-SAI: pre-industrial and 21st-century responses to climate intervention with stratospheric aerosols in CESM2-WACCM6 - Walker Lee
3:30pm- A Climate Intervention Dynamical Emulator (CIDER) for Scenario Space Exploration- Jared Farley
3:45pm- Nuclear War In a World Brimming With Plastic: Impacts of Cl, Br, and Organics on the Ozone Layer- Simchan Yook
4:00pm- ADJOURN

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Paleoclimate Working Group Agenda

1:00pm- WELCOME & Seawater isotopic signatures of Pliocene tropical ocean - Ran Feng
1:15pm- Vegetation-climate feedbacks in the Pleistocene using iCESM1.3 and BIOME4 - Elke Zeller
1:30pm- Impact of aerosol changes on Earth’s pre-anthropogenic radiative budget (Remote) - Irina Thaler
1:45pm- Investigating the Physical State of the Modeled Eocene Ocean After Full Equilibration (Remote) - Adam Aleksinski
2:00pm- The Influence of Tethys and Central American Seaway on Climate during the Miocene Climatic Optimum (REMOTE) - Hamida Ngoma Nadoya
2:15pm- Constraining Antarctic ice sheet stability during the Last Interglacial (Remote) - Joseph Schnaubelt
2:30pm- BREAK
3:00pm- Persistently active El Niño–Southern Oscillation since the Mesozoic - Xiang Li
3:15pm- Angiosperm tree heights during the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution: Evidence from the Upper Campanian Jose Creek Formation, south-central New Mexico - Garland Upchurch
3:30pm- Reconciling model and proxy records in late Cretaceous ocean simulations - Maya Tessler
3:45pm- Advancing Deep-Time Climate Reconstruction with a New Online Paleoclimate Data Assimilation Approach in CESM - Feng Zhu

Break

Plenary: Wrap-up; general discussion 

End of Workshop