Faculty Network for Teaching with CESM

Note:  This description of resources is incomplete as of 4/18/2025 and will be undergoing further development in the next few weeks.

This webpage collects information and resources intended to help university faculty get setup to best utilize CESM, its component models, or simpler models in undergraduate and graduate coursework. Through the creation of a Faculty Network for Teaching with CESM, we also hope to facilitate sharing of information and resources between faculty members and to learn how to improve ease-of-use for CESM for educational purposes.   
 

Options for computational resources 

  • Derecho
    • Classroom allocations
      • CISL offers opportunities to undergraduate and graduate faculty and instructors at U.S. 2- and 4-year institutions to use NSF NCAR HPC and analysis resources in their courses in Earth system science and related areas.  Individual accounts are provided to all students and the instructor(s), so be sure to allow at least a week for setting up accounts. Very large classes may require more setup time. NSF NCAR can provide consulting assistance to the instructors.
      • Classroom Allocation Requests can be submitted at any time and decisions are generally made within a few days.
      • Allocation requests are typically on the order of ~500K core-hours  
    • Example allocation request
       
  • Porting CESM to University Clusters
  • Containers (information available soon)

Tutorial material 

The links below provides up-to-date tutorial materials (links last updated 4/10/2025).  Older tutorial materials can be found on the CESM tutorial website.  
These tutorials are intended for users who plan to use CESM in their research or teaching. They are not tutorials designed for using CESM to teach Earth System Science in the classroom.  For resources focused on CESM in the classroom, see below the DiscussCESM forum for faculty and the contact information for networking with other faculty who may have taught such courses.

CESM Tutorial at NCAR (1-week Summer school)

CESM Tutorial at AGU, AMS (½ day tutorial)

Configuration options and computational performance

Details coming soon.

DiscussCESM forum for faculty

  • Use this link to access the DiscussCESM forum page to access the Faculty Network for Teaching with CESM area under the Non-component-specific topic

Contact information for faculty in networking

  • Use this link to join the CESM Faculty communication list.
  • If you have questions about how to get started or recommendations or requests for additional information, please contact Elizabeth Faircloth (fair@ucar.edu) and she can help point you in the right direction.