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Why use CESM?

The Community Earth System Model (CESM), housed and developed primarily at NSF NCAR, is a leading global resource for Earth system modeling.  CESM is one of the world's most comprehensive and widely used models.  Researchers use the model to study Earth system predictability and interacting processes across many realms and timescales.  CESM represents the state-of-the-art in atmosphere, ocean, land, land ice, and sea ice modeling. It includes complex chemistry and biogeochemistry and represents the carbon cycle, so is well placed to be used across a broad range of timescales to advance understanding of our Earth System and to support decision making related to predictability.  

Get Started with CESM

Getting started with CESM is easy.  Tutorials materials are freely available online.  Getting more deeply  involved with the CESM community is also easy and rewarding.  The annual CESM Workshop, held every year in June, is a great way to get involved and to meet colleagues and form collaborations.  Additional meetings are held throughout the year that are open to anyone interested.  There is also an annual CESM Tutorial where students are presented with the underlying physics, biology, and chemistry of the model as well as the technical details about how to run and modify CESM or its component models.  You can learn more about the CESM activity, the working groups that support CESM, as well as tutorial materials at the CESM website (https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/).