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Creating a Sea-Level-Enabled E3SM

Regional sea-level rise can be significantly larger or smaller (by 50% or more) than the global average, and the U.S. coastline is disproportionately impacted by these variations. This project fills a critical gap in applying the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) to coastal impacts by creating a regional sea-level modeling capability within E3SM and introducing a consistent representation of sea level across ocean and ice sheet components.
Keywords coastal, glaciers, ice sheets, sea level, solid Earth
TYPE Early Career
Principal Investigator (PI)
Matt Hoffman
Lead Institution
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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