Improving Southern Ocean Climate and Ice-shelf Basal Melt Rates in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) v2 with Regional Mesh Refinement

Carolyn Branecky Begeman1, Xylar Asay-Davis2, Alice Barthel3, Darin Scott Comeau4, Matthew J Hoffman5, Wuyin Lin6, Mark R Petersen4, Stephen F Price4, Andrew Roberts3, Milena Veneziani4, Luke Van Roekel2 and Jonathan D Wolfe4, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics, Los Alamos, United States, (6)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States