Not exact matches
Murali Haran, a professor in the department of statistics at Penn State University; Won Chang, an assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences at the University of Cincinnati; Klaus Keller, a professor in the department of geosciences and director of sustainable climate risk management at Penn State University; Rob Nicholas, a research associate at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University; and David Pollard, a senior scientist at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University detail how parameters and initial values drive an
ice sheet
model,
whose output describes the behavior of the
ice sheet through time.
The city is not out of the woods, though, warns Aimée Slangen of Utrecht University in the Netherlands,
whose own
model suggests that Antarctica could lose a lot of
ice, which would produce an above - average rise throughout the northern hemisphere.
The
modeled snowflake shown in the video is less than half an inch (one centimeter) long and composed of many individual
ice crystals
whose arms became entangled when they collided in midair.
These and other observations can be integrated into a
model with feedbacks and having two unstable end ‐ points that is consistent both with classical studies of past climate states, and also with recent analysis of
ice dynamics in the Arctic basin by Zhakarov,
whose oscillatory
model identifies feedback mechanisms in atmosphere and ocean, both positive and negative, that interact in such a manner as to prevent long ‐ term trends in either
ice ‐ loss or
ice ‐ gain on the Arctic Ocean to proceed to an ultimate state.