2020 CESM Workshop

Workshop Details

• Dates: 15 - 17 June 2020
• Location: Virtual Workshop Via Zoom
• Participants: View PDF

Workshop Videos

The workshop videos can be found on the NCAR CGD Youtube Page

Agendas

• Main Agenda: Webpage or PDF
• Atmosphere Model Working Group Agenda: PDF
• Climate Variability and Change Working Group Agenda: PDF
• Earth System Prediction Working Group Agenda: PDF
• Land Model Working Group, Community Terrestrial Systems Model & Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator Agenda: PDF
• Polar Climate, Paleoclimate & Land Ice Working Groups Agenda: PDF
• Software Engineering Working Group Agenda: PDF
• Whole Atmosphere & Chemistry Climate Working Group Agenda: PDF

Presentations

• Main Workshop (Plenary)
• Brief updates from the working groups
• Atmosphere Model Working Group
• Earth System Prediction Working Group
• Polar Climate, Paleoclimate & Land Ice (Joint) Working Groups
• Land Model Working Group, Community Terrestrial Systems Model & Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator
• Climate Variability and Change Working Group
• Software Engineering Working Group

Main workshop (Plenary) Presentations

Presentation Title	Presenter
State of the CESM	Gokhan Danabasoglu
CESM Distinguished Achievement Award	David Lawrence
CESM Graduate Student Award - Daniel Kennedy	Daniel Kennedy
Representation of Modes of Variability in 6 U.S. Climate Models	Clara Orbe
Causes of Higher Climate Sensitivity in CMIP6 Models	Mark Zelinka

Brief updates from the working groups

Presentation Title	Presenter
Atmosphere Model Working Group	Julio Bacmeister
Whole Atmosphere Model Working Group	Rolando Garcia
Chemistry Climate Working Group	Louisa Emmons
Ocean Model Working Group	Frank Bryan
Biogeochemistry Working Group	Keith Lindsay
Land Model Working Group	Will Wieder
Polar Climate Working Group	Hansi Alice Singh
Land Ice Working Group	William Lipscomb
Paleoclimate Working Group	Esther Brady
Software Engineering Working Group	Bill Sacks
Climate Variability and Change Working Group	Isla Simpson
Earth System Prediction Working Group	Steve Yeager

Atmosphere Model Working Group

Presentation Title	Presenter
Parameterizing Unified Microphysics Across Scales (PUMAS): an evolution	Andrew Gettelman
Ice Microphysical Properties Below -40C based on Seven NSF Flight Campaigns and NCAR CAM6 Model Simulations	Minghui Diao
CAM6 Boundary Layer Evolution Over An Idealized Diurnal Cycle	Richard Neale
A new unified boundary layer and convection parameterization CPT project: The multi-plume Eddy-Diffusivity/Mass-Flux (EDMF) approach	Joao Teixeira
Merging the CLUBB and EDMF frameworks in CAM6: Approach: SCM Results and Next Steps	Mikael Witte
Turbulent dissipation is not pressure damping: Moving beyond Mellor's single master length scale	Zhun Guo
Reference Climate of CESM Coupled Aqua and Ridge Planets	Xiaoning Wu
Simulation of Convectively Coupled Kelvin Waves Using the Single Column Atmosphere Model Coupled to the Damped Gravity Wave Method	I-Kuan Hu
The Shifting Scales of Western US Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers Under Climate Change	Alan Rhoades
Tropical Cyclones in Variable-Resolution CAM: Impacts of High-Resolution Grid Extent and Climate Change Forcing	Alyssa Stansfield
Impact of horizontal resolution on the meteorology and climate of Greenland	Adam Herrington
Investigations into the vertical resolution for the next "workhorse" version of CESM	Isla Simpson
Atmosphere Model Working Group Discussion	-

Earth System Prediction Working Group

Presentation Title	Presenter
A New CAM6+DART 80-Member Ensemble Reanalysis for 2011-2019: Initial Conditions for CAM, CLM and CICE Forecasts and Forcing for POP, CLM and CICE	Kevin Reader
S2S with CESM1	Yaga Richter
Advantages of 25Km resolution ocean model in GEOS Seasonal Prediction System	Andrea Molod
Two-year Predictions of ENSO Event Duration during 1954-2015	Xian Wu
On the prospect of developing seasonal to decadal soil moisture forecasting system	Sanjiv Kumar
Decadal Prediction with CESM: recent progress & outstanding challenges	Steve Yeager
The climpred diagnostic package	Riley Brady
Near-term Simulation Plans	Co-chairs

Polar Climate, Paleoclimate & Land Ice (Joint) Working Groups

Presentation Title	Presenter
Increases in Northern Hemisphere vegetation cover as a potential solution to the Holocene Temperature Conundrum	Alexander Thompson
Moist climate across the North Africa and subtropical Eurasia in mid-Pliocene models and proxies	Ran Feng
Can we directly estimate ECS using LGM climate reconstructions?	Jiang Zhu
Progress on variable resolution for polar science	Adam Herrington
Evolution of the Indian monsoon since the last glacial maximum: forcing vs feedbacks	Chetankumar Jalihal
Speleothems of South American and Asian Monsoons Influenced by a Green Sahara	Clay Tabor
* Recorded Talk Dynamic Effect of Last Glacial Maximum Ice Sheet Topography on the East Asian Summer Monsoon	Yu Gao
* Recorded Talk MJO-like Variability in the Eastern Pacific during the Pliocene	Nagaraju Chilukot
Glacial AMOC: Strength versus Depth	Andreas Schmittner
Collapse of the Deep-Sea Circulation during the PETM with implications for the extinction of benthic foraminifera	Arne Winguth
Land Ice, Polar Climate, Paleo Climate Working Groups Discussion	-
Arctic Freshwater Storage and Export in CMIP6 Models	Hannah Zanowski
Opposite responses of the dry and moist eddy heat transport into the Arctic in the PAMIP experiments	Alexandre Audette
Arctic Amplification as a Rapid Adjustment to Increased CO2	Tyler Janoski
Polynyas and Antarctic Slope Current in iHESP-CESM simulation	Xiliang Diao
Integrating proxy and model estimates of Antarctic climate variability over the last millennium	Olivia Truax
* Recorded Talk Forced Changes in the Arctic Freshwater Budget Emerge in the Early 21st Century	Alexandra Jahn
Detecting Arctic sea ice melt onset with a satellite simulator	Abigail Smith
The influence of sea ice thickness on transient climate change: a case for tuning from CESM2	Jennifer Kay
Large Arctic Warming from Ozone-Depleting Substances in the Latter Half of the 20th Century	Mark England
* Recorded Talk Multi-scale Arctic sea ice modeling with a grid hierarchy in CESM	Shiming Xu
Atmospheric teleconnection processes linking winter air stagnation and haze extremes in China with regional Arctic sea ice decline	Yufei Zou

Land Model Working Group, Community Terrestrial Systems Model & Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator

Presentation Title	Presenter
Land Model Working Group Updates	Will Wieder
CTSM-WRF Updates	Dave Lawrence
Fates overview & Land use change in FATES	Charlie Koven
Reduced complexity modes as a gateway drug to FATES	Rosie Fisher
Datasets across CTSM-FATES	Jacquelyn Shuman
Discussion Guide	-
Discussion	-

Climate Variability and Change Working Group

Presentation Title	Presenter
EL Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the NCAR Community Earth System Model version 2	Antonietta Capotondi
Evaluation of Leading Modes of Climate Variability in the CMIP Archives	John Fasullo
The Impact of the Observed Arctic Sea-ice Variability on the Cold Season Atmospheric Circulation in Large-ensemble AGCM Experiments	Yu-Chiao Liang
Impacts of Arctic climate change on synoptic cyclones	Minghong Zhang
Role of AMOC in transient climate response to greenhouse gas forcing in two coupled models	Aixue Hu
Indian Ocean warming as a driver of the North Atlantic warming hole: atmospheric versus oceanic mechanisms	Shineng Hu
Competing anthropogenic effects cause distinct regional impacts on extreme wildfire risk	Danielle Touma
Regional drivers of the response of Sahel precipitation to anthropogenic aerosols	Haruki Hirasawa
The North Atlantic Climate Response to Stratospheric Sulfate Geoengineering	James Hurrell
Pushing the Limits of Pattern Scaling to Separate Tropical and Polar Climate Change Signals	Paul Kushner
Was the Great Salinity Anomaly of the 1970s induced by an extreme Fram Strait Sea-Ice Export?	Who Kim
Amplified Madden-Julian oscillation impacts in California due to eastward-extended teleconnection pattern	Wenyu Zhou

Software Engineering Working Group

Presentation Title	Presenter
Update on Community Mediator for Earth Predictive Systems (CMEPS)	Mariana Vertenstein
Coupling MOM6 in CESM: Software challenges and advances	Alper Altuntas
CESM2 workflow capabilities	Jim Edwards
Fast Access of Irregular Grids and Meshes by Latitude and Longitude	Carl Drews
Determining Best Practices for Archiving and Reproducibility for Computational Model Output	Gary Strand
Managing Model Output for CESM3 Discussion	-

Featured Speakers

Each year we welcome two featured speakers from outside of the organization to give our plenary talks. This year we are welcoming Dr. Clara Orbe of NASA and Dr. Mark Zelinka of LLNL. Below you can learn more about them and their work.