Energy Exascale Earth System Model

PI Peter Caldwell, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Co-PI Mark Taylor, Sandia National Laboratories
Chris Terai, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Oksana Guba, Sandia National Laboratories
Ben Hillman, Sandia National Laboratories
Sarat Sreepathi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Award INCITE
Hours Aurora: 1,000,000 node-hours
Total Hours 2,000,000 node-hours
Year
Domain Earth Science
Caldwell-INCITE-2025

Snapshots of upwelling shortwave radiative flux at model top from a January SCREAM simulation, taken two days into the simulation (2020-01-22 at 02:00:00 UTC). The orthographic projection in the middle panel shows model clouds represented by shortwave flux superimposed on a NASA Blue Marble image [ 31]. The insets show comparisons against Himawari-8 visible satellite imagery for two scenes: a cold air outbreak event near Siberia (left), and a cyclone south of Australia (right). Image: DOI: 10.1145/3581784.3627044

Project Description

SCREAM is a global atmosphere model with 3 km resolution. Using 30x finer resolution than most of its competitors yields more accurate predictions of the earth system and provides geographically specific information necessary for weather-impacts planning. Fine resolution is computationally expensive, however, so this model can only be run on leadership-class computing resources. The goal of this project is to provide, for the first time, decadal-scale real-world predictions using SCREAM.

 

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