Climate Modeling

Lawrence Livermore, in partnership with other national laboratories and academic collaborators, continues to advance the tools and methodologies needed to accurately predict future climate conditions.

With powerful computers and an ongoing refinement process, LLNL scientists build and improve sophisticated climate models such as the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) that can focus on elements of climate-vulnerable U.S. infrastructure. These models also enable enhanced techniques, such as climate fingerprinting, to clarify both natural and human-related influences affecting Earth’s atmosphere. By comparing and validating research and data over decades of study and using state-of-the-art tools of this era, the Laboratory is bringing into focus the evolution of climate change and its potential effects.