An Earth modeling system developed over the last four years and unveiled Monday is expected to have one of the finest resolutions ever achieved by supercomputers simulating aspects of the planet’s climate, said Sandia National Laboratories researcher Mark Taylor, the project’s chief computational scientist.
The Energy Exascale Earth System Model, E3SM, is the work of eight Department of Energy labs and several universities working under the aegis of the DOE’s Office of Science. More than 100 researchers worked to enable program users to anticipate long-term changes that will critically impact the U.S. energy sector in coming years, and eventually uncover other aspects of the climate.
