For the most current Agenda go to Agenda - 2019 Fall All-Hands Meeting (internal E3SM project website)

Agenda in pdf form (11/15/19) 

Chair: Renata McCoy

8:30 – 8:45: Introductory remarks, Plenary

• DOE CESD Director - Gary Geernaert

• DOE ARM and Interim E3SM Program Manager - Sally McFarlane  and  DOE Detailee in BER - Corinne Hartin (Unlicensed)

8:45 - 9:45: Overview of E3SM current activities and future plans (3 x 20 min), Plenary

• E3SM PI - David C. Bader ()

• E3SM Chief Scientist - Ruby Leung ()

• E3SM Chief Computational Scientist - Mark Taylor   ()

9:45 – 10:45: Overview of water cycle, cryosphere, and BGC (3 x 20 min), Plenary

• Water Cycle Overview - Chris Golaz ()

• Cryosphere Overview - Stephen Price ()

• BGC Overview - Katherine Calvin ()

10:45 – 11:00: Pictures

11:00 – 11:15: Break

Chair: David C. Bader

11:15 – 11:55: Overview of infrastructure and performance (2 x 20 min), Plenary

• Infrastructure Overview - Robert Jacob  ()

• Performance Overview - Philip Jones ( )

11:55 – 12:25: Invited talks (2 x 15 min), Plenary

• Jon Petch (Deactivated) - Met Office ()

• Anand Gnanadesikan - Johns Hopkins U.   ()

12:25 – 1:45: Lunch

1:45 – 3:30: Parallel session A (Water Cycle, Infrastructure, Performance) (1 hr 45 min)

• Water Cycle Breakout 11/19, Plenary Room

  • 1:45 - 2:30 Science Talks (3x15 min; 12+3 for questions)

    • 1:45 - 2:00: Resolution Sensitivity of the simulation of teleconnections to extremes - Salil Mahajan ()

    • 2:00 - 2:15: Scale-awareness of ZM Convection Scheme - Guang Zhang (

    • 2:15 - 2:30: Snow-on-SeaIce - Nicole Jeffery()

  • 2:30 - 3:05 v2 Developments (7x5 min)

    • v2 RRM ocean, sea-ice - Mathew Maltrud ()

    • v2 RRM atmosphere - Qi Tang ()

    • Redi mixing - Mark Petersen see (MPAS pull request)

    • Dust - Yan Feng ()

    • Atmosphere tuning - Xue Zheng ()

    • Subgrid topographic units - Teklu Tesfa  ()

    • Plant hydraulics - Yilin Fang ()

  • 3:05 - 3:30 Discussion

• Performance Breakout 11/19, Room #1

  • GPU performance of Atmosphere dycore Mark Taylor

• Infrastructure Breakout 11/19, Room #2

  • CIME case control system:  status and future plans (James Foucar, Robert Jacob)  (20min)

  • Testing and machine coverage:  status and future plans (Integrators, Wade Burgess, James Foucar) (20min)

  • Workflow tools (processflow, e3sm_to_cmip, ztash):  status and future plans  (Sterling Baldwin (Unlicensed), Lukasz Lacinski (Unlicensed), Ryan Forsyth) (20min)

  • Break (15 mins)

  • IG Sofware/tools development:  status and future plans (30mins)

    • -e3sm_diags, NCO, a-prime  (Jill Chengzhu Zhang, Ryan Forsyth, Charlie Zender)

3:30 – 4:15: Parallel session B (BGC, Cryosphere, NGD SCREAM) (45 min) 

• BGC Breakout 11/19 (agenda), Plenary Room

  • 3:30-3:35   - Katherine Calvin ()

  • 3:35-3:55  v2 Land Model Updates (LBNL stoichiometry, photosynthesis, allocation) - Qing Zhu ()

  • 3:55-4:15  Ocean model: v1 biases and v2 planning - Nicole Jeffery()

• Cryosphere Breakout 11/19, Room #1

  • V1 atmospheric simulations over southern high latitudes - Wuyin Lin, Kai Zhang

  • V2 ocean/sea ice meshes - Mark Petersen also see Design of Southern Ocean Enhanced Mesh: Part 1, May 2019 and https://github.com/MPAS-Dev/geometric_features/pull/114

• NGD SCREAM Breakout 11/19 (SCREAM agenda), Room #2

  • Intro by Peter Caldwell  (5 min)

  • NH Dynamics efforts - Oksana Guba , Andrew Steyer (Unlicensed), Luca Bertagna, and Mark Taylor (20 min)

  • Atmosphere Driver - Aaron Donahue and Luca Bertagna (20 min)

4:15 – 4:30: Break

4:30 – 5:30: Poster session A

• Authors of posters with assigned number A will present at this session

Evening sessions, Parallel Sessions

7:00 - 9:00 pm:  NGD Software & Algorithms, and NGD Atmosphere, Coordination with atmospheric chemistry (New solver, Aerosols, BGC,  Advection, Convection), Plenary

7:00 - 9:00 pm:  Deep Dive Music Rehearsal - Philip Jones, Room #1

7:00 - 8:00 pm: Ocean BGC modeling in E3SM - Katherine Calvin, Susannah Burrows, Room #2 Agenda

Chair: Ruby Leung

8:30 – 10:30: Overview of NGD projects (5 x 24 min), Plenary

• NGD SCREAM - Peter Caldwell - ()

• NGD Software and Algorithms - Andy Salinger – ()

• NGD Atmospheric Physics - Shaocheng Xie ()

• NGD Land - Ben Bond-Lamberty ()

• NGD Coastal Waves - Phillip Wolfram (Unlicensed) ()

10:30 – 11:00 Break

Chair: Mark Taylor

11:00 – 12:30: Water cycle, BGC, and cryosphere talks (2 talks per group - 6 x 15 min), Plenary

• Water Cycle

  • Peter Caldwell, LLNL - Overview of the E3SMv1 High-Resolution 1950 Control Run: (, JAMES preprint)

  • LeAnn Conlon, LANL - The influence of the Gent McWilliams bolus velocity on North Atlantic circulation, stratification, and sea ice. ()

• Biogeochemistry

  • Peter Thornton, ORNL - Evaluating the historical trajectory of land and ocean carbon-climate feedbacks in E3SMv1.1-BGC ()

  • Nicole Jeffery, LANL - Controls on sea ice primary production in E3SMv1.1-BGC  ()

• Cryosphere

  • Andrew Roberts, LANL - The polar climate of E3SM ()

  • Matt Hoffman, LANL - Could increased melting from East Antarctic ice shelves trigger runaway melting beneath Filcher-Ronne Ice Shelf?   ()

12:30 – 1:45: Lunch

1:45 – 3:15: Parallel session A (NGD Atm Physics, NGD Land, NGD Software and Algorithms) (1 hr 30 min)

• NGD Atmospheric Physics Breakout 11/20, Shaocheng Xie, Plenary Room

  • Project Overview (10 min) - Shaocheng Xie ()

  • Project Updates (60 min)

    • Atmospheric Chemistry (5 min) - Philip Cameron-Smith

    • Aerosol Developments (15 min) - Hailong Wang et al.

    • Cloud Microphysics (5 min) - Jiwen Fan (Unlicensed)

    • Convection (5 min each, total 25 min)

      • SILHS - Vince Larson

      • EDMF - Joao.Teixeira@jpl.nasa.gov (Unlicensed)

      • SHOC+ZM - Chris Terai

      • ZM enhancement - Guang Zhang

      • Momentum transport by CONV and GW - Jadwiga Richter

    • Model Evaluation (5 min) - Yun Qian, Yuying Zhang

    • Chemistry breakout report Philip Cameron-Smith ()

  • Plan for the year 2020 (20 min) - Shaocheng Xie

• NGD Land Breakout 11/20, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Room #1

  • Katherine Calvin - (10 minutes) 

  • Beth Drewniak -  (10 minutes) 

  • Jennifer Holm - FATES update (10 minutes)  ()

  • Gautam Bisht - Development of a tree-level hydrodynamics model for ELM to study competition for water (15 min) ()

  • Hongyi Li - MOSART updates (10 minutes) ()

  • Zeli Tan - Soil erosion update (10 minutes) ()

  • Peter Thornton - high res land (15 minutes) ()

  • Yilin Fang - Fates-hydro ()

• NGD Software and Algorithms Breakout 11/20 (Agenda), Andy Salinger, Room #2

  • Andy Salinger - "Welcome; Intro" (5 min including discussions)

  • Hyun-Gyu Kang - "A semi-implicit barotropic mode solver for the ocean" (20 min including discussions) 

  • Salil Mahajan - "Climate Reproducibility Testing" (10 min including discussions) 

  • Irina Tezaur (Unlicensed) - "Verification and Testing Infrastructure and Demonstrations" (20 min including discussions) 

  • Andrew Steyer (Unlicensed) - "IMEX and ETD Methods for NonHydrostatic Atmosphere" (10 min including discussions) 

  • J. Austin Ellis (Unlicensed) - "Task Placement for Reduced Communication Cost" (10 min including discussions) 

  • Joshua Fu (Unlicensed) / Rong-You Chien (Unlicensed) - "Atmosphere chemistry solver" (10 min including discussions) 

  • Andy Salinger  – Open Discussion on new Software and Algorithms tasks that we should consider funding (5-20 min)

3:15 – 4:15: Parallel session B (BGC, Cryosphere, NGD SCREAM) (1 hr)

• BGC Breakout 11/20, Plenary Room

  • 3:15-3:35  - Katherine Calvin

  • 3:35-3:55  Discussion: what worked and didn’t work for v1 - Susannah Burrows

  • 3:55-4:15  Discussion: looking forward to v3 

• Cryosphere Breakout 11/20, Room #1

  • V2 new feature testing validation - Andrew Roberts and Adrian Turner

  • Ice sheet surface climate - Charlie Zender and Cheng Dang (Unlicensed) ( )

• NGD SCREAM Breakout 11/20 (SCREAM agenda), Room #2

  • Running on new grids - Ben Hillman and others (5 min; )

  • What does our C++/Kokkos code looks like? - James Foucar et al. (5 min of talking, 5 min of discussion; )

  • Boutique configurations - Peter Bogenschutz, Hassan Beydoun, Wuyin Lin, and Qi Tang (15 min): IOP-SCREAM, RCE-SCREAM, forecasts, RRM ()

  • Evaluation - methods for manipulating/plotting very high-res data, but also first results - Chris Terai, Kyle Pressel, et al. (10 min) ()

  • v0 performance - Noel Keen (5-10 min) ()

  • Discussion (10 min)

4:15 – 4:30: Break

4:30 – 5:00: Award presentation, and Live music, Plenary

5:00 – 6:00: Poster session B

• Authors of posters with assigned number B will present at this session

Evening sessions, Parallel Sessions

5:45 - 6:15 pm: NGD Land/Energy Meeting, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Room #1

7:00 - 7:30 pm: Data Archive and Publication, Jill Chengzhu Zhang, Renata McCoy, Room #2

7:30 - 9:00 pm: Project timeline, coordination, and some adjustments in the NGD-AtmPhys for E3SM V3s - Shaocheng Xie, Plenary

7:30 - 8:30 pm:  - Luke Van Roekel (Unlicensed), Mathew Maltrud, Bryce Harrop , Room #1

()

7:30 - 8:00 pm, Working with E3SM's new cmake-based build system - James Foucar, Room #2

Chair: Robert Jacob

8:30 – 10:30: NGD talks (8 x 15 min), Plenary

• Nonhydrostatic Atmosphere Model

  • Ben Hillman, SNL - Status of SCREAMv0 ( )

  • James Foucar, SNL - Getting the Right Answer - Overview of Testing in SCREAM ()

• Software and Algorithm

  • Hyun-Gyu Kang, ORNL - A semi-implicit barotropic mode solver for the ocean ()

  • Andy Salinger, SNL and Hui Wan, PNNL - Code verification culture and infrastructure: progress and plans  ()

• Atmospheric Physics

  • Jadwiga Richter, NCAR - Impact of mesoscale convection parameterization and convective gravity wave drag in E3SMv1 []

  • Jiwen Fan (Unlicensed), PNNL - Impact of a new cloud microphysics parameterization on simulations of precipitation in E3SMv1 at both coarse and high resolutions ()

• Land/Energy Model

  • Qing Zhu and William Riley (Unlicensed), LBNL ()

  • Hongyi Li, U. Houston - MOSART-sediment: Representing suspended sediment in E3SM ()

10:30 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 12:40: Parallel sessions (5 min breaks between sessions)

•  11:00 - 11:30:  

  • BGC with Performance, Plenary Room

  • Water Cycle with Infrastructure, Room #1

    • Infrastructure:  Diagnostics  

  • NGD SCREAM with NGD Atmospheric Physics, Room #2

•  11:35 - 12:05

  • BGC with Infrastructure, Plenary Room

    • Diagnostics, zstash, processflow, ESGF 

  • Water Cycle with Performance, Room #1

  • NGD SCREAM with ECP, Room #2

•  12:10 - 12:40:

  • NGD SCREAM with Infrastructure, Plenary Room

    • Infrastructure: PIO2, high-res diagnostics, running SCREAM as an E3SM component. 

  • NGD Atmospheric Physics with Water Cycle, Room #1

  • Cryosphere with Performance, Room #2

12:40 – 2:00: Lunch

Chair: Katherine Calvin

2:00 – 3:45: Invited talks from university and ecosystem projects (7 x 15 min), Plenary

• Haiyan Teng, NCAR - Decadal climate prediction with E3SM ()

• Xianglei Huang (Unlicensed), U. Michigan - A more realistic LW surface-atmosphere coupling reduces E3SM Arctic warm bias  )

• Stephen Price, LANL - Efforts towards coupled ice sheet and climate modeling in E3SM ()

• Atul Jain (Unlicensed), UIUC - Modeling the Influence of Land Use and Land Cover Change (LULCC) ()

• Wieslaw Maslowski, NPS - Arctic regionally refined E3SM configurations ()

• Daniel Ricciuto, ORNL - Machine learning approaches for surrogate modeling ()

• Christopher Jones (Unlicensed), PNNL -SP-E3SM in the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) []

3:45 – 4:00: Break

4:00 – 5:00: Tutorial

• 4:00 - 5:00 pm: Open ACC - Philip Jones & Sarat Sreepathi, Plenary

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  • For further resources after the hands-on session: [  |  https://github.com/mrnorman/miniWeather ]

  • A Practical Introduction to GPU Refactoring in Fortran with Directives for Climate

  • E3SM-MMF Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR) for Summit Final Report

  • C++ Performance Portability For OpenACC and OpenMP Folks

  • Readable C++

• 4:00 - 4:30pm: Processflow workflow tutorial - Sterling Baldwin (Unlicensed), Room #1

• open , Room #2

Meeting adjourn