Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) project aims to optimize the use of DOE resources to address the grand challenge of actionable predictions of Earth system variability and change. This requires sustained advancement to (1) integrate model development with leading‐edge computational advances toward ultra‐high‐resolution modeling; (2) represent the coupled human‐Earth system to address energy sector vulnerability to variability and change; and (3) address uncertainty in model simulations and projections. Scientific development of the E3SM modeling system is driven by the simulation requirements in three overarching science areas centering on understanding the Earth's water cycle, biogeochemistry, and cryosphere systems and their future changes. This paper serves as an introduction to the E3SM special collection, which includes 50 papers published in several AGU journals. It provides an overview of the E3SM project, including its goals and science drivers. It also provides a brief history of the development of E3SM version 1 and highlights some key findings from papers included in the special collection.

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E3SM Special Collection简介：目标，科学驱动因素，开发和分析

在美国能源部（DOE）的支持下，能源百亿亿次地球系统模型（E3SM）项目旨在优化DOE资源的使用，以应对对地球系统变异性和变化进行可行的预测所面临的巨大挑战。这需要持续的进步，以（1）将模型开发与超高分辨率建模的前沿计算进展相结合；（2）代表人地耦合系统，以解决能源部门易受变化和变化影响的脆弱性；（3）解决模型仿真和预测中的不确定性。E3SM建模系统的科学发展受到三个总体科学领域中对模拟的要求的驱动，这些领域的重点是了解地球的水循环，生物地球化学和冰冻圈系统及其未来变化。本文是对E3SM特别系列的介绍，该系列包括50篇在AGU期刊上发表的论文。它概述了E3SM项目，包括其目标和科学动因。它还提供了E3SM版本1的简要发展历史，并重点介绍了该特别收藏中的论文的一些重要发现。