There are many huge challenges facing ice
sheet modellers in reducing this uncertainty, which requires an interdisciplinary effort between glaciologists, geophysicists, oceanographers, climatologists, mathematicians, computer scientists...
«This response is well known, but what is less known is that the input of fresh water also leads to changes far away in the northern hemisphere, because it disrupts part of the global ocean circulation,» said Nick Golledge from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, an ice -
sheet modeller and co-author.
Not exact matches
It's interesting to note that most of these elements include physics that
modellers are least confident about — hydrology, ice
sheets and vegetation dynamics.
Statements such as «They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models» reveals he has never had a conversation with a climate
modeller — our concerns about ice
sheets for instance come about precisely because we aren't yet capable of modelling them satisfactorily.
It's interesting to note that most of these elements include physics that
modellers are least confident about — hydrology, ice
sheets and vegetation dynamics.