Sentences with phrase «realistic ice sheet models»
«It's a major impediment to developing realistic ice sheet models when you don't even know how thick some of these outlet glaciers are,» says Eric Rignot, a remote - sensing glaciologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
http://discovermagazine.com/ Not exact matches
The problem with the paleoclimate ice sheet models is that they do not generally contain the physics of ice streams, effects of surface melt descending through crevasses and lubricating basal flow, or realistic interactions with the ocean.
Also ice sheets models, as they become more realistic and are tested against observed ice sheet changes, may aid our understanding.
To assure the model was realistic, the scientists drew on observations of changes in the altitude of the ice sheet surface made by NASA's IceSat satellite and airborne Operation IceBridge campaign.
From the linked table by # 3 Aslak Grindsted, it seems like the FAR gave the most realistic estimate of the sea level rise, even better than AR5, according to the «ice sheet experts» as well as taking into the account the bias in leaving the semi-empirical models out.