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Agenda - 2019 Fall All-Hands Meeting

Agenda - 2019 Fall All-Hands Meeting

Dec 11, 2019

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

Agenda in pdf form (11/15/19) 

Legend

Text in blue indicates all-hands meeting in Plenary room;  red text signifies Parallel session

Rooms:

  • Plenary = Washington Ballroom (seating 180)

  • Room #1 = Wilson/Harrison (seating 60) 

  • Room #2 = Jackson Room (seating 50) 

  • Poster Room = Commonwealth Room (fits 80 posters)

Day 1, Tuesday, Nov 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

  • 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

 

Day 2, Wednesday, Nov 20:

 

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 (Unlicensed)

      • 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 (Unlicensed) ()

    • 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

 

Day 3, Thursday, Nov 21:

 

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