This project aims to address uncertainties associated with numerical modeling of Earth’s climate system and with modeled present and future climate change by conducting high-resolution simulations with the Community Earth System Model (CESM). This presentation will update the Blue Waters community on some of the activities during 2015 and lay the path forward for 2016. Building on 2014 results, further progress was made concerning tropical cyclone behavior within the CESM framework as well as changes in behavior in future scenarios. Pushing model resolution, our group is conducting the first-of-its-kind simulations including the fully-coupled ¼° atm/lnd coupled to the 1° ocn/ice configuration and the fully-coupled ¼° atm/lnd coupled to a 1/10° ocn/ice RCP8.5 scenario. The former set is used to assess climate sensitivity, 20th Century climate changes, and future climate changes while the latter simulation allows exploration of very high resolution impacts on regional features and climate change processes.
