DOE awards $3.3 million to UNM professor, research on climate prediction
October 25, 2022
By Savannah Peat
An unpredictable picture of a future fueled by climate change is getting clearer with the help of The University of New Mexico and Department of Energy (DOE).
Department of Mathematics & Statistics Professor Emerita Deborah Sulsky has just been awarded a $3.3 million grant as part of the DOE’s efforts to improve its Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM).
The collaborative project, titled Improved Coupled Climate Simulations in E3SM Through Enhanced Sea‐Ice Mechanics, is just one of seven projects to get a share of the DOE’s $70 million funding.
Sulsky is embarking on a five-year project with UNM team members, researchers from Sandia Labs, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Nebraska, to design a more accurate climate change predictive model.
“What we are proposing is if we have a better model for sea ice, we can hopefully get better predictions not just for sea ice, but for climate simulations in general, ” Sulsky said.
Earth system models like E3SM have many components – the atmosphere, ocean, land, land ice, sea ice, biology, and chemistry.
“All of these components must work together to make a prediction on what’s going to happen in the future to climate,” Sulsky said.
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