Authors: Gokhan Danabasoglu, Ping Chang, Fred Castruccio, Dan Fu, Teagan King, Xue Liu, Nan Rosenbloom, Justin Small, Gaopeng Xu, and Qiuying Zhang.
As impacts of climate change are being felt by the society through sea level rise, increased intensity and occurrences of heat waves, droughts, extreme rainfall events, and tropical cyclones (TCs), decision makers and stakeholders need reliable weather and climate information at increasingly finer spatial and temporal scales. There are also numerous science questions regarding representation of and changes in importance of various processes with increased model resolution. It is generally anticipated that with less reliance on uncertain parameterizations and their parameter choices, high-resolution (HR) models will represent various processes and coupled interactions of the Earth system with increased fidelity. To address these needs and challenges, we have made significant advances in HR global Earth system modeling and predictions. Specifically, we have performed an unprecedented set of simulations at a TC-permitting (0.25°) and ocean-eddy-rich (0.1°) horizontal resolution using the Community Earth System Model (CESM-HR). The presentation will introduce these simulations and provide a few highlights from our extensive analysis. While not a panacea to address all model biases, the HR simulations certainly offer promising improvements with reduced biases in comparison with their low-resolution counterparts and advance our understanding of processes.