Town Hall
Tuesday, December 12, 2017 12:30–13:30
New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center – 211–213
Three unique Earth system model evaluation capabilities have been developed in coordination with national laboratory support from DOE’s Regional and Global Climate Modeling Program. These include the PMP (The Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison Metrics Package), the International Land Model Benchmarking Package (ILAMB) and the Toolkit for Extreme Climate Analysis (TECA). Collectively, these efforts are part of the Coordinated Model Evaluation Capabilities (CMEC) used to evaluate simulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). These capabilities are strongly linked scientifically, and capture an extensive suite of model evaluation characteristics. The PMP provides objective simulation summaries with a diverse suite of relatively robust high-level summary statistics comparing simulations and observations across space and time scales. The ILAMB package provides model–data comparison to facilitate improvements in the fidelity of terrestrial models and, in parallel, inform the design of new measurement campaigns to reduce uncertainties associated with biogeochemical and hydrological feedbacks. TECA contains analysis algorithms targeted at extreme event detection and analysis. This town hall will highlight the CMEC capabilities, and solicit feedback and discussion on the scientific opportunities to interrogate Earth system model simulations like they have never been tested before.