Polaris
April 15, 2026 ยท View on GitHub
Polaris provides infrastructure, test cases and analysis tasks related to the ocean, land-ice and sea-ice components of the Exascale Energy Earth System Model (E3SM).
Polaris requires Python 3.11 or newer.
Supported models include:
- Omega (in early stages of development)
- MPAS-Albany Land Ice (MALI)
- MPAS-Ocean
- MPAS-Seaice
Documentation
The latest Polaris documentation can be found here:
https://docs.e3sm.org/polaris/
Documentation on its predecessor, Compass, can be found here: