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Broadening Earth System Research Across Scales with High-Resolution Modeling Workshop Agenda

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Workshop registration

Introduction and objectives

Session 1: How does resolving small scale processes impact large scale dynamics?

Invited talk - Resolving the Climate System: From Ice Sheets to Convection

Adam Herrington, NSF NCAR

Mesoscale Processes Reverse the Feedback of North Atlantic SSTs onto the NAO

Joas Müller, IAC, ETH Zürich

Western European Heatwaves in CMIP6-HighResMIP: Thermodynamic and Dynamical Process Representation Across Resolutions

Lorenzo Sangelantoni*, CMCC

Mesoscale Ocean Impacts on the Midlatitude Storm Tracks on S2D Timescales

E. E. Hayden, NSF NCAR

Discussion

Break

Session 2: Understanding extreme events and their response to climate change in high-resolution models

Invited talk: Long-Term Regional Hydroclimate Modeling for Communities and Decision-Makers across Alaska and Northwestern Canada

Andy Newman, NSF NCAR

Resolution-dependent characterization of dry and humid heat extremes and their implications for cooling demand by 2100

Jake Casselman, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Evaluation of the Seasonality of Extreme Rainfall in Argentina Using the High-Resolution Community Earth System Model

Melina Duboski, Observatorio Hidrometeorológico de Córdoba

Non-Uniform Reduction of the North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones in Response to the AMOC Weakening under External Freshwater Forcing

Rajat Joshi, Princeton University

Discussion

Lunch

Poster session 1

Break

Breakout session 1

End of the day for virtual participants

Networking event

End of day 1

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Day 2 introduction and recap of day 1

Session 3: How does higher resolution improve (or degrade) the simulation of climate mean state and variability?

Invited talk: High-resolution coupled model simulation of 21st century weakening and potential recovery of Antarctic Bottom Water formation

Thomas Delworth, NOAA GFDL

Spatial resolution sensitivity and validation of CESM atmospheric forcing for storm surge projection in the Southwestern Atlantic Continental Shelf

Matías Dinápoli, CIMA

Topographic controls on North American monsoon rainfall biases and future projection uncertainty

Dervla Meegan-Kumar, University of California Irvine

Surface-forced North Atlantic water mass transformation in high- and low-resolution forced ocean–sea-ice models

Taydra Low, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Discussion

Break

Poster session 2

Lunch and group photo

Session 4: How does higher resolution alter emergent climate trends and projected change?

Invited talk: EU Project EERIE: Scientific Advances and Lessons Learned from Multi-Decadal, Kilometre-Scale, Eddy-Rich Climate Simulations

Thomas Jung, AWI

Impact of horizontal model resolution on simulated historical Southern Ocean sea-surface temperature trends

Dave Bonan, University of Washington

Assessing Earth's Energy Imbalance Trend in the Early 21st Century in Two High‐Resolution Coupled Models

Yan-Ting Chen, Princeton University

A km scale model look at humidity trends

Tiffany Shaw, The University of Chicago

Discussion

Lightning virtual poster session

Break

Breakout session 2

End day 2

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Day 3 introduction and recap of day 2

Session 5: How does high resolution modeling change modeling of past climate?

Invited talk - Enhanced Storm Activity and North American Monsoon Precipitation in High-Resolution Simulations of the Mid-Pliocene

Mary Grace Albright, Boston University

More equable past and future warm climates in unprecedented high-resolution simulations

Jiang Zhu, NSF NCAR

Evaluating atmospheric mechanisms of the “Green Sahara” in high-resolution CESM (iCESM1.3)

Victoria Todd, NSF NCAR

Southern Ocean oscillation drives Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation in the past millennium

Chengfei He, Northeastern University

Discussion

Break

Session 6: Unifying High-Resolution ESMs: Community Standards for Evaluation, Sharing, and Emulating 

Invited talk - Overcoming Critical Challenges to High Resolution ML Earth System Emulators

David John (DJ) Gagne, UCAR

High-Resolution Climate Modeling Reveals Enhanced Early-Warning Signals of Ecological Tipping Risk Across Amazon, India, and the Sahel

Priyanka Singh, TERI School of Advanced Studies, Delhi

Optimizing Brute-Force Downscaling for AI-Enabled Production of High-Resolution Climate Information

Alex Hall, UCLA

Tying in High Resolution E3SM with ARM Data (THREAD) – Project Overview and Recent Progress

Yunyan Zhang, LLNL

Discussion

Lunch

Breakout session 3

Break

Breakout report out

Conclusions and what's next

End day 3

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Practicum introduction - gather in the Center Green lobby

Break

Practicum

End of workshop