1. Presented as Discussion Material for the Radiative Coupling Project
E3SMv1 Model Status
Presented as Discussion Material for the Radiative Coupling Project
March 8, 2019

2. Simulations – DECK/CMIP6 – reproducible with maint-1.0 tag
AMIP Simulations ( 3 members with different ICs)
DECKv1b_A1.ne30_oEC.edison
DECKv1b_A2.ne30_oEC.edison
DECKv1b_A3.ne30_oEC.edison
piControl, coupled (1 member, 500 years)
DECKv1b_piControl.ne30_oEC.Edison
Historical, coupled (5 members, )
DECKv1b_H1.ne30_oEC.edison
DECKv1b_H2.ne30_oEC.ediso
DECKv1b_H3.ne30_oEC.edison
DECKv1b_H4.ne30_oEC.edison
DECKv1b_H5.ne30_oEC.edison
Full data soon to be made directly accesible on NERSC HPSS
Coupled hires simulation – to be submitted to HiResMIP
1950 condition, 50 years
with noCNT (Classical Nucleation Theory)
theta branch_noCNT.A_WCYCL1950S_CMIP6_HR.ne120_oRRS18v3_ICG

3. Model Versions
The code base for DECKv1 simulations is tagged as maint-1.0
E3SMv2
‘V1p’ improvements by Po-Lun Ma (PNNL) for atmos,
Additional atmos tuning
Updates for ocean/ice/lnd components
Code to freeze later 2019 (June or later)
E3SMv3
Incorporate next generation developments (NGD) in E3SM Phase 2.
Potentially other collaborative developments (like from our project)
E3SMv4
Non-hydrostatic dycore, 3 km resolution atmos
P3 microphysics, SHOC (simplified higher-order closure for turbulence)

4. Diagnostics Ensemble mean of AMIP Simulations (1985-2014)
AMWG Diagnostics:
Ensemble mean of coupled historical simulations ( )
AMWG Diagnostics:
1950 coupled hires simulation with no CNT (years 26-55)
AMWG Diagnostics:

5. Diagnostics – Surface Air Temperature, N. Polar
ANN
DJF

6. Diagnostics – DJF Surface Radiation
LWCRF
NetRad

7. OLR, ANN Tropical Focus
I400 All-sky OLR Scatter-noScatter (-0.33 Wm-2)
I350 All-sky OLR Scatter-noScatter (-0.31 Wm-2)

8. Diagnostics – TOA LWCF ANN

9. Diagnostics – Upper Air Temperature
DJF
JJA

10. Diagnostics – Surface Air Temperature, S. Polar
ANN
JJA

11. Diagnostics – JJA Surface Radiation
LWCRF
NetRad

12. From Yuying Zhang et al., JAMES, in review
Diagnostics – Cloud Properties, ANN

13. From Yuying Zhang et al., JAMES, in review
Diagnostics – Cloud Properties, ANN

14. From Yuying Zhang et al., JAMES, in review
Diagnostics – Cloud Properties, ANN

15. From Yuying Zhang et al., JAMES, in review
Diagnostics – Cloud Properties, ANN
Zonal mean CALIPSO determined liquid cloud fraction as a function of temperature

16. From Yuying Zhang et al., JAMES, in review
Diagnostics – Cloud Properties, ANN
Zonal mean CALIPSO determined ice cloud fraction as a function of temperature

17. From Yuying Zhang et al., JAMES, in review
Diagnostics – Cloud Properties, ANN
Mixed Phased Cloud partitioning