CESM Workshop 2024

Agenda Track

Monday, June 10th, 2024

Center Green Auditorium

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Registration

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Welcome

Everette Joseph, NSF NCAR Director

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State of the CESM - Dave Lawrence

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CESM Distinguished Achievement Award- Jim Edwards

 

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CESM Graduate Student Award - Samuel Mogen

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Break

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Plenary Speakers

Jane Mulcahy, UK Met Office,

UKESM2 development pathway, progress and plans towards CMIP7

 

Maria Rugenstein, Colorado State University, 

How the Good and the Bad conspire to the Ugly: trends of surface temperatures and TOA radiation in climate models and observations

 

Veronika Eyring, DLR,

Understanding and Modelling the Earth System with Machine Learning

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Lunch (In Center Green Lobby)

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CESM Atmosphere Agenda

1:25pm- Peter Lauritzen

Intro

 

CLUBB

1:30pm- Kyle Nardi

How Does CLUBB’s New Prognostic Momentum Flux Formulation Impact the Mean Climate in CAM?

 

1:45pm-  Ben Stephens

Parameterizing non-hydrostatic pressure transport terms in second- and third-order turbulence equations

 

2:00pm- Joao Teixeira

The quest for unified turbulence and convection parameterizations: Recent results from the EDMF CPT Project

 

Microphysics

2:15pm- Qing Niu

Assessing the CAM6 Cloud Condensation Nuclei bias in the “pre-industry-like” pristine Southern Ocean Marine Boundary Layer
 

2:30pm- Christina McCluskey

CAM6 Ice Formation in Southern Ocean Mixed Phase Clouds

 

2:45pm- Geethma Werapitiya

Constraining CAM6 cloud feedback by cloud sources and sinks in extratropical cyclones

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CESM Land Agenda

1:30pm- Will Wieder

Introduction


1:32pm- Hugo Lambert

Measuring the differences between climate model land surface simulations and FLUXNET observations



1:44pm- Adrianna Foster

FATES Capabilities and Calibration at NEON Sites



1:56pm- Linnia Hawkins

Tuning Leaf Area Index in CLM: Insights and Challenges



2:08pm- Xueli Huo

Assimilating SIF and SWE observations into CLM using DART to improve GPP over the high mountains in the Western US



2:20pm- Dalei Hao

Representing sub-grid heterogeneity in E3SM land model (remote)


2:32pm- Jyoti Singh

Simulating Winter Wheat in CLM5 with a New Surface Dataset: Assessing Yield Gaps and Importance to Spatial Variability in Crop Specific Parameters
 

2:44pm- Sam Rabin

Crop model improvements for CTSM6


2:56pm- Discussion

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CESM Ocean Agenda

1:25pm- Gustavo Marques

Welcome and Code of Conduct

 

1:30pm- Maheswar Pradhan

Modeling Ocean Diurnal Cycle and its Scale Interaction to Longer Scale Climate Variabilities



1:45pm- Kay McMonigal

The role of ocean complexity on sea surface temperature variability in CESM


2:00pm- Xinru Li

Exploring historial Marine Heatwave characteristics at sea surface and subsurface and influences of model drift by the coupled GFDL and NCAR models


2:15pm- Xianglin Ren

Distinct anthropogenic greenhouse gas and aerosol driven marine heatwaves



2:30pm- Gustavo Marques

Status of MOM6 towards CESM3 Release & Discussion

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Break

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CESM Atmosphere Agenda (cont.)

Automated tuning

3:30pm- Vince Larson

Parameter tuning can yield hints about model structural errors

 

3:45pm- Itay Griniasty

The geometry of parameter space in standard and super-low resolution CESM PPEs

 

4:00pm- Margaret Duffy

Mechanisms of the pattern effect in CAM6

 

4:15pm- Rich Neale

The vertical extent of convection in CAM7: A simple and super-low resolution

 

4:30pm- Teo Price-Broncucia

Ensemble Consistency Testing: New Models and Realistic Bug Scenarios

 

Numerics

4:45pm- Sean Santos 

Analyzing the stability of flux coupling methods with a simple atmospheric boundary layer model

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CESM Land Agenda (cont.)

3:30pm- Yuan Sun

Improving Urban Climate Adaptation Modelling in the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Through Transient Urban Surface Albedo Representation


3:42pm- Xinchang "Cathy" Li

Modeling building dehumidification energy use in the Community Earth System Model


3:54pm- Yifan Cheng

Advancing urban-resolving CESM via a new global high resolution urban dataset



4:06pm- Fang Li

A New Parameterization Scheme for Ozone Damage to Vegetation



4:18pm- Montasir Maruf

Effects of climate forcing uncertainty and persistence on soil moisture memory process



4:30pm- Will Wieder

LMWG overview presentation


4:45pm- Discussion

5:00- Adjourn

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CESM Ocean Agenda (cont.)

3:30pm- Paul Hall

Implementing TheoryWaves as a CESM Component



3:45pm- Elizabeth Maroon

Links between coastal sea level and offshore ocean heat content change



4:00pm- James Larson

The Signature of the Western Boundary Currents in Tropospheric Climate Variability



4:15pm- Discussion/Questions



4:30pm- Dougal Squire

Ocean biogeochemistry in ACCESS-OM3



4:45pm- Andrew Kiss

Australia’s ACCESS-OM3 ocean model suite

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Poster Session and Information Exchange

Tuesday, June 11th, 2024

Center Green Auditorium

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Cross-WG Sessions

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Session I: Tipping Points

8:30am-Gokhan Danabasoglu & Bette Otto-Bliesner

Introduction to the Session



8:35am - Sina Loriani (PIK) remote

Tipping Point Model Intercomparison Project (TipMIP)



8:55am- Bette Otto-Bliesner (NSF NCAR)

What If Model Intercomparison Project (WhatIfMIP)



9:15am-Laura Jackson (UKMO) remote

North Atlantic Hosing Model Intercomparison Project (NAHoseMIP)



9:35am-Didier Swingedouw (CNRS) remote

Project Overviews: OptimESM & TipESM



9:55am-Peter Lawrence (NSF NCAR)

Climate Interventions with CESM



10:15am- Discussion

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Session II: Harnessing Machine Learning for CESM:  Innovation and Integration

8:30am-Stephan Hoyer

AI-based climate modeling with NeuralGCM



8:45am-Miren Vizcaino

First application of Artificial Neural Networks to estimate 21st century Greenland melt



9:00am-Qingyuan Yang

Gaining insight into model behavior from perturbed parameter ensembles using an additive emulator



9:15am- Kirsten Mayer

Exploring the Relative Importance of the MJO and ENSO to North Pacific Subseasonal Predictability



9:30am- Jhayron Pérez

An Earth system and process-oriented view of the S2S predictability of Weather Regimes using Machine Learning



9:45am-Dan Amrhein

Improving forecasts by learning optimal transforms between dynamical systems and imperfect models



10:00am- Will Chapman

Online Corrections to CAM with Learned Data Assimilation Increments



10:15am- Discussion on ML at NCAR and its future in CESM

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Break

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CESM Whole Atmosphere Agenda

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CESM Earth Systems Prediction Agenda

11:00am- 

Welcome


11:05am- Xingying Huang 
Linking the large scale processes and the landfalling features of atmospheric rivers in the multi scale non hydrostatic CESM simulations ever the western US

 

11:20am- Ankur Srivastava

Interaction of rivers with the upper-ocean: A climate modeling perspective towards better S2S forecasts



11:35am- Dillon Amaya

Building seasonal climate forecasts from large ensembles



11:50am- 

Co-Chairs Update

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CESM Software Engineering Agenda

11:00am- Mike Levy and Ligia Bernardet

Welcome and CESM Updates



11:15am-Erik Kluzek

Implementing CI/CD Philosophy for CTSM; The tale of b4b-dev



11:30am- Jim Edwards

Git Fleximod (replacing manage_externals)



11:45am- Josh Coupe

Adding phytoplankton UV inhibition to CESM



12:00pm- Alper Altuntas

visualCaseGen: Streamlining CESM Simpler Modeling Efforts and Beyond


 

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Lunch (In Center Green Lobby)

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CESM Whole Atmosphere Agenda (cont.)

1:30pm- Doug Kinnison

Evaluation of the chemistry and climate impact of the new solar forcing dataset for CMIP7 using the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model



1:50pm- Jun Zhang

Chemistry contribution to stratospheric ozone depletion after the unprecedented water-rich Hunga Tonga eruption



2:10pm- Ewa Bednarz

Stratospheric Aerosol Inverventions could prevent AMOC collapse but the injection location is key


2:30pm- Daniele Visioni

Developing a set of simple metrics to evaluate high-top models for different purposes



2:50pm- Discussion

3:00pm- Session End

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CESM Earth Systems Prediction Agenda (cont.)

1:30pm- Nicole Lovenduski

Bio Bloom Forecast: Harnessing satellite observations to predict phytoplankton extreme events



1:45pm- Travis Aerenson

Can we do better at predicting regional hydroclimate?



2:00pm- Jerry Meehl

"Australian bushfire smoke, multi-year La Nina, and implications for the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO)"



2:15pm- Oliver Millin

The Role of Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling in Subseasonal Forecasts of the North American 2017-2018 Cold Air Outbreak



2:30pm- Steve Yeager

Resolution sensitivity of coupled model response to persistent NAO forcing



2:45pm- Discussion

3:00pm- Adjourn

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CESM Software Engineering Agenda (cont.)

1:30pm- Jun Wang (remote)

Asynchronous IO development in the UFS weather model



1:45pm- Jason Boutte (remote)

Modernizing CIME: Enhancing Efficiency and Flexibility in Earth System Modeling


2:00pm- Helen Kershaw (remote)

CESM-DART: Updates on Assimilation for Earth System Models



2:15pm- Alex Pinard

Training Statistical Models to Identify Optimal Lossy Compression Parameters



2:30pm- Teagan King and Mike Levy

CUPiD



2:45pm- Jesse Nusbaumer

Recent ADF developments and collaboration with CUPiD

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Break 

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Cross-WG Sessions

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Session III: CESM Sea Level Agenda 

3:30pm- Welcome and Code of Conduct

3:33pm- Shaina Sadai

Advancing coupled modeling to understand sea level change and inform climate action through the courts



3:59pm-  Riccardo Riva

Challenges in coastal sea level predictions at decadal to secular scales (and the need for coupled modelling of ice-ocean-solid earth interactions)


4:12pm-Yingli Zhu

Interannual Sea Level Variability Along the U.S. East Coast



4:25pm- Weiqing Han 

Sea level extremes and compounding marine heatwaves in coastal Indonesia



4:38pm- Jacob Steinberg

Links between coastal sea level and offshore ocean heat content change

 

4:51pm-Christopher Little

Insights into the representation of coastal sea level variability in global high-resolution models

 

5:04pm-John Fasullo

CESM Suggests an Underestimation in Current Regional Sea Level Rise Projections

 

5:17pm-Ashley Bellas-Manley

Using the CESM2 Large Ensemble to Evaluate CSEOF Separation of Internal and Forced Components of Sea Level Change

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Session IV: CESM High-Ultra High Agenda 

3:30pm- Andreas Prein

Climate Simulation at Weather Forecasting Resolution: The Benefit, Challenges, and Prospects of Kilometer-Scale Climate Modeling 

3:45pm- Aaron Donahue 

SCREAM – Designing a next generation global atmosphere model for exascale



4:00pm- Christine Shields

The upper ocean’s response to Northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change



4:15pm-Adam Herrington

Resolving Weather with CAM-SE (hydrostatic)



4:30pm-Mary Barth / Brian Dobbins

Advancing Ultra-High Resolution & Complex Chemistry Capabilities in CAM



4:45pm- David Randall 

EarthWorks Progress

 

5:00pm-Gokhan Danabasoglu and Christiane Jablonowski 

NSF MESACLIP
NSF StormSPEED: The 'Storm-resolving SPEctral Element Dycore' for CESM7

 

5:15pm- Lingcheng Li (online)

Global 1 km land surface parameters for kilometer-scale Earth system modeling

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Local Brewery Event (Self-paid)

Wednesday, June 12th, 2024

Center Green Auditorium

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CESM Climate Variability & Change  Agenda

Session I 

8:30am- Isla Simpson

CVCWG updates



8:45am- Gerald Meehl

Processes that contribute to future South Asian monsoon differences in E3SMv2 and CESM2



8:55am- Samantha Stevenson
Tropical Pacific Trends: Last Millennium to the 21st Century  


9:05am- Xian Wu

Pinpointing sources of equatorial Pacific SST biases in a coupled GCM via surface flux adjustments



9:15am- Mahdi Hasan 

Hemisphere-dependent Response of Hadley Circulation to ENSO and Eddy Forcing



9:25am- Kai Huang

Modulations of Atmospheric River Climatology by the Stratospheric Quasi-Biennial Oscillation

 

9:35am- Lucas Ellison

Quantifying the roles for structural uncertainty and intrinsic variability in determining the ocean-atmosphere conditions that drive western and central North American drought

 

9:45am- Kyle Heyblom

A renewed mass balance framework for regional precipitation change: leveraging the atmospheric water cycling rate

 

9:55am- Rich Neale

Teleconnections and the Variability of Tropical Pacific Diabatic Forcing in CESM and E3SM Large Ensembles

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CESM Biogeochemistry Agenda

8:30am- Abby Swann

Welcome, logistics, BGCWG Planned Activities



8:45am- Benjamin Sanderson 

Emissions driven simulations for CMIP7 and beyond



9:00am-  Ben Booth 

Exposing wider ESM uncertainties to mitigation and adaptation decisions



9:15am- Sandupal Dutta

Using Machine Learning to uncover Ecological Mechanisms controlling abundance of Phytoplankton Size Classes from Large-scale observations



9:30am- The eye of the needle: multi-objective calibration of CLM-FATES
Rosie Fisher (remote)



9:45am- Discussion

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CESM Land Ice Agenda

8:30am- Co-Chairs

         Welcome

8:32am- Gunter Leguy

Land Ice Update

 

8:42am- Kate Thayer-Calder

Updates to Ice Sheet and Ocean Coupling in CESM3

 

8:55am-Sandeep Narayanasetti

Influence of Greenland glacial ice-melt on AMOC and its possible climate impact

 

9:08am- Ziqi Yin

Identifying energy balance drivers and feedbacks of Greenland ice sheet surface melt using causal inference

 

9:21am- Dan Martin

Damaged goods: impacts of damage-rheology coupling on ice sheet evolution

 

9:34am- Joanna Millstein

An extreme value theory perspective on large iceberg calving events

 

9:47am-Bill Lipscomb

Impact of non-Newtonian rheology on Earth's response to Antarctica ice mass flux

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Break

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CESM Climate Variability & Change  Agenda (cont.)

Session II

10:30am- Xueying Zhao

The dominant patterns of historical anthropogenic aerosol emissions and their climate impacts via direct radiative forcing and ocean-mediated pathways

 

10:40am- Xianglin Ren

Distinct anthropogenic greenhouse gas and aerosol driven marine heatwaves

 

10:50am- Clara Deser

Effects of macro vs. micro initialization and ocean initial-condition memory on the evolution of ensemble spread in the CESM2 Large Ensemble

 

11:00am- Ivan Mitevski

Quantifying the Response of the North Atlantic Oscillation to a Wide Range of CO2 Forcing

 

11:10am- Jessica Wan

Targeted marine cloud brightening can modify El Niño-Southern Oscillation

 

11:20am- Jack Chen

Rethinking the susceptibility-based strategy for marine cloud brightening climate intervention: experiment with CESM2 and its implications

 

11:30am- Illaria Quaglia

Modeling 2020 changes in shipping emissions helps explain 2023 anomalous warming

 

11:40am-

CVCWG Open Discussion

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CESM Biogeochemistry Agenda (cont.)

10:30am- Andrew Wilson 

Fast Spin Up Through Anderson Acceleration

 

10:45am- Greta Shum 

Characterizing Carbon Sink Responses to Decarbonization across Model Structures



11:00am-  Peter Lawrence

Using CESM 2.1.5 with emissions and interactive fire and biogenic aerosols for investigating baseline, mitigation, and climate intervention scenarios.



11:15am-Jiameng Lai 

Mesophyll largely contributes to the historical increase in isotope discrimination of C3 plants and implications for water use efficiency



11:30am- Jun Yu 

Simulating ecosystem dynamics and marine biogeochemical cycles with multiple plankton functional types

 

11:45am- Mia El-Khazen

Modeling Elemental Neodymium in the Ocean Using a Bottom-up Approach

 

12:00pm- Discussion

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CESM Land Ice Agenda (cont.)

10:30am-Tim van den Akker

Using an ice softness parameter to decrease modeled ice surface velocity errors

10:42am- Shijie Zhong

CitcomSVE-3.0: An efficient and open-source finite element package for modeling glacial isostatic adjustment process



10:55am-  Kaixuan Kang

Impact of non-Newtonian rheology on Earth's response to Antarctica ice mass flux



11:08am-Miren Vizcaino

Simulation of Last Glacial Maximum northern hemisphere ice sheets climate and surface mass balance with CESM2-CAM5



11:21am- Taylor Deneau

Modeling the Antarctic ice sheet and its contribution to Pliocene sea level

 

11:34am- Samar Minallah

Simulating mountain glacier mass balance and dynamics with the Community Ice Sheet Model

 

11:47am- Matthias Troch

Forecasting the future of the Southern Patagonian Icefield using the Community Ice Sheet Model

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CESM Chemistry Climate Agenda

1:00pm- Simone Tilmes

Welcome and Overview / Status of CAMchem



1:15pm- Louisa Emmons

Simulating Air Quality with Regionally Refined Grids over Three Continents



1:30pm-  Wenfu Tang

Understanding the impacts on air quality of wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires versus wildland fires using MUSICAv0



1:45pm-Noribeth Mariscal

Ozone Atmospheric Chemistry in Southeast Michigan during the Michigan-Onterio Ozone Source Experiment



2:00pm-Deni Murray(remote)

Validating modeled atmospheric deposition timeseries with observed long -term records across the U.S.



2:15pm- Benjamin Gaubert

Towards methane emission-driven Earth system model simulation with CAM-chem
 

2:30pm-Ryan Delaney (Cancelled)

 

2:45pm- Christopher Brunet

Exploring the impact of chlorine oxidation and temperature-dependent reaction rates on the atmospheric lifetimes and concentrations of Volatile Methl Siloxanes in CESM

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CESM Paleoclimate Agenda

1:00pm- Jiang Zhu, Samantha Stevenson, Ran Feng

Welcome and Paleoclimate Working Group Updates

 

1:05pm-Sophia Macarewich

Atmospheric river activity over the past ~56 million years in an unprecedented set of high-resolution CESM simulations

 

1:15pm-Karishma Dahiya

Indian Summer Monsoon interannual variability during the mid-Pliocene using CMIP6 models (Virtual)

 

1:30pm-Gary Upchurch

Dicot wood tissue structure as a tool for paleoclimate

 

1:45pm- Joshua Coupe

Sunburned phytoplankton: Chicxulub asteroid impact as a case study for ultraviolet radiation inhibition in MARBL

 

2:00pm- Feng Zhu

Revisiting Miocene Climatic Optimum with a unique equilibrated iCESM simulation

 

2:15pm-Sloan Coats

Understanding the climate signals recorded by proxy records through a combined analysis of an isotope enabled climate model and proxy system models

 

2:30pm- Victoria Todd

North Pacific response to hemispheric warming forces Holocene drought

 

2:45 pm- Andrew Flaim

North Atlantic Oscillation Controls on Water Isotopes Proxies in the Iso2k Database and iCESM

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CESM Polar Climate Agenda

1:00pm-  Alice DuVivier and Hansi Singh

Welcome

 

1:05pm- Ash Gilbert

Isolating the Influence of Temperature-dependent Cloud Optics on Infrared Radiation within a Model Hierarchy

 

1:17pm- Yu-chi Lee

Exploring the Effects of AMOC Weakening on Arctic Amplification

 

1:29pm- Ian Baxter

Water sources and land capacitor effects driving observed summer Arctic moistening and warming

 

1:41pm- Jen Kay

Sea ice feedbacks cause more greenhouse cooling than greenhouse warming at high northern latitudes on multi-century timescales

 

1:53pm- Jed Lenetsky

Large future changes in the North Water Polynya are most likely if global warming exceeds 2C

 

2:05pm- Rene Wijingaard

Impacts of regional grid refinement on climate extremes over the Arctic in storyline-based VR-CESM simulations

 

2:17pm- Maddie Smith

Assessing the summer mass balance and meltwater storage of Arctic sea ice

 

2:29pm- Kate Hedstrom

Arctic ice-ocean circulation modeling: recent improvements and applications

 

2:41pm- Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth

Model biases in simulating extreme sea ice loss

 

2:53pm- Alice DuVivier & Hansi Singh

General Discussion

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Break

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CESM Chemistry Climate Agenda (cont.).

3:30pm-Ren Smith 

Preliminary Evaluation of CESM-CARMA with ACCLIP Airborne Observations

 

3:45pm- Saeideh Mohammadi

Modeling secondary organic aerosol formation from decamethylcyclopentasiloxane (D5)


 

4:00pm-Rafael Pedro Fernandez (remote)

Short-Lived Halogen Chemistry in the Community Earth System Model (CESM2-SLH): current developments and atmospheric implications

 

4:15pm-Behrooz Roozitalab

Short-lived halogen sources and distribution

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CESM Paleoclimate Agenda (cont). 

3:30pm- Yuntao Bao

Simulating ice core δ18O evolution and its implication on Holocene Temperature Conundrum

 

3:45pm-Christo Buizert

The Greenland spatial fingerprint of Dansgaard-Oeschger events in observations and models (Virtual)

 

4:00pm- Andreas Schmittner

Carbon and Carbon-13 in the Preindustrial and Glacial Ocean: A Precise and Complete Decomposition (Virtual)

 

4:15pm-Ran Feng

Inter-model spread in mid-Pliocene radiative forcing from boundary condition and CO2 changes (Virtual) & Working Group wrap-up

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CESM Polar Climate Agenda (cont.)

3:30pm-Maya Willard-Stepan

Energy Landscapes: exploring renewable energy clustering for a low-carbon future

 

3:42pm-Courtney Payne

Quantifying the potential predictability of Arctic primary production

 

3:54pm- Marika Holland

Regional multi-year predictability of Antarctic sea ice

 

4:06pm- Laura Landrum & Rachel McCrary

Defining human-relevant extremes, lessons from the field and need for integrative metrics for climate models across scales

 

4:18pm-

General Discussion

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Plenary : Wrap-up Discussion

End of Workshop