«Basic chemistry tells us that within decades there may be serious trouble brewing in the polar oceans,» says James Orr, lead author and
ocean modeler from the French Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, who further adds, «unlike climate predictions, the uncertainties here are small.»
Not exact matches
So GISS climate
modeler Michael Way took a topographic map of Venus based on findings
from another mission, filled in the lowlands with an
ocean of water, and ran the global climate model to simulate the climate of ancient days on Venus.
(They also loudly attacked climate
modelers for not reproducing data on
ocean cooling (which turned out to be due to some faulty instruments on Argo floats), and then just as loudly promoted results
from models that predicted increased wind shear in the Atlantic.)
In the next 24 hours, I'll be posting fresh excerpts
from an extended and fascinating discussion of ice patterns since 2007 involving some of the world's top ice researchers — both
modelers and field scientists like those I accompanied in 2003 on their annual North Pole expedition undertaken to monitor the vital signs of the
ocean beneath the drifting sea ice.
Two obstacles kept
modelers from handling the
oceans in the same way as the atmosphere.
Strong winds blowing off the continent are pushing the giant floe away
from its parent, the giant Pine Island Glacier, and the warming Southern Hemisphere's has melted the thick winter sea ice that held the block in place since July, said Grant Bigg, an
ocean modeler at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.