Modeled Arctic Sea Ice Thickness from 1940 through 2060: View #1
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Part of the ongoing research into polar ice trends encompasses evaluation from sophisticated computer models. At the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University, run by NASA's sibling agency, NOAA, researchers modeled a 5,000 year period to see how polar ice might behave over time depending on several different variables. This visualization shows a 120-year slice of that complete model, essentially offering a research window on to experimental processes that require longer time frames than human lifetimes. According to the model shown here, projecting a period from 1940 to 2060, there is evidence to suggest human factors have had a measurable effect on Arctic ice decreases.
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Arctic Sea Ice Thickness from 1940 through 2060 from the GFDL Coupled Global Climate Model
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Blue represents ice concentration from 1979 and red represents ice concentration from 1998
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Arctic sea ice thickness in 1940 from the GFDL Coupled Global Climate Model.
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Arctic sea ice thickness in 2000 from the GFDL Coupled Global Climate Model
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Arctic sea ice thickness in 2060 from the GFDL Coupled Global Climate Model
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| Animation Number: | 1075 |
| Animator: | Tom Biddlecome (Lead) |
| Studio: | SVS |
| Completed: | 2000-05-30 |
| Scientist: | Keith Dixon (NOAA/GFDL) |
| Data set: | GFDL Coupled Global Climate Model |
| Data Collected: | 1940-2060 |
| Series: | Arctic Ice |
| Video: | SVS2000-0004 * |
Keywords:
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>> Cryology
SVS
>> Ice
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More Information on this topic available at:
stories/arctic/index.html
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Please give credit for this item to
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio |
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