I don't have access to the paper right now, but from the abstract it sounds like no external freshwater forcing was applied to
simulate the ice sheet contribution.
He is interested in developing next - generation sea ice models which capture anisotropic nature of ice dynamics / mechanics and explicitly
simulate both ice thickness distribution and floe size distribution jointly.
Clearly, to
simulate ice sheet retreat, simulated oceans must change their vertical and horizontal extents as the ocean invades the space occupied by the ice sheet and receives meltwater from the glacier.
The grids in current models are still too coarse to
simulate ice streams.
Models do
simulate ice melt and the heat that goes there, but it's very small compared with the oceans.
For example, Nintendo's more precise haptic feedback can
simulate ice cubes entering the controller in a minigame — you can actually feel the «cup» fill with water.
This is where a mathematical formula which represents the way that ice behaves is converted into computer code and the code then used to
simulate the ice sheet behaviour.
Wendy Leuenberger, a former graduate student at SUNY - ESF, measures ice accumulation following
a simulated ice storm at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH.
Bitz, C.M., M.M., Holland, A.J. Weaver, and M. Eby, 2001:
Simulating the ice - thickness distribution in a coupled climate model.
The above figure shows that
the simulated ice draft is in a reasonably good agreement with submarine observations of ice draft along the tracks of submarine cruises in 1987 - 1997.
The ice - ocean model is initialized with satellite estimates of ice concentration and model
simulated ice thickness and ocean fields and is forced by the atmospheric fields from 2003 to 2009.
We also note that agreement between observed and
simulated ice crystal number concentrations in our study required the concentration of entrained ice nuclei to be much greater than the number concentration of ice crystals, which conflicts with studies that indicate that entrained ice nucleus concentrations are equal to in - cloud ice crystal concentrations.
Not exact matches
Sodium Alginate is used to stabilise the foam in beer, for gelations in
icings, toppings, restructured foods and
simulated fruit pieces.
Wait for it to cool, and then use an
ice cream scoop to
simulate meatballs on the plate!
Brave Buddies is designed to
simulate a typical school day, allowing children many opportunities to practice real - life challenges including morning meetings; choice time; show and tell; field trips to places such as the library,
ice cream store, and Central Park Children's Zoo; guests to interact with such as police officers and firefighters; and the always - popular daily trip to the Brave Buddies prize store — a
simulated store where children can purchase prizes with the points they've earned for brave talking throughout the day.
And kids practice their skills not only in the
simulated classroom but also on trips to places like the local
ice cream store, restaurant, library, and park.
Zapping
simulated space
ice with imitation starlight makes the
ice bubble like champagne.
While climate models also
simulate the observed linear relationship between sea
ice area and CO2 emissions, they usually have a much lower sensitivity of the
ice cover than has been observed.
Professor Gavin Foster, from the University of Southampton, said: «The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have shown that climate models can successfully
simulate climates from the freezing world of the last
Ice Age, to the intense warmth of the «Eocene greenhouse», 50 million years ago.
The scientists also ran a computer model to
simulate the future of Greenland's surface temperature, grain size, exposed
ice area and albedo.
The researchers built their computer models using common molecular models for
ice / water and methane, arranged as either monocrystalline or polycrystalline grains, and
simulated the effect of applying forces to the collection of grains.
Jansen and colleagues
simulated likely paths that the crack could take as it spreads toward the
ice shelf's edge.
The equipment in NAU's
ice lab
simulates the extremely cold environment and the near vacuum of space.
The outdoor tests did not
simulate Martian temperature and pressure, but calculations indicate the dry
ice would act similarly in early Martian spring where the linear gullies form.
The global climate models do a good job of
simulating the process of sea
ice formation over large areas in the open ocean.
Climate models are not yet able to include full models of the Greenland and Antarctic
ice sheets and to dynamically
simulate how
ice sheet changes influence sea level.
«We have run the model over a
simulated period of three million years, and taken into account measurements from
ice cores and independent magnetic and seismic data,» says Petrunin.
And when we understand the physics, we can develop better models to
simulate and predict when and how
ice will build up on cold days.»
Most important, it relies on the first published results from the latest generation of so - called Earth System climate models, complex programs that run on supercomputers and seek to
simulate the planet's oceans, land,
ice, and atmosphere.
The experiment
simulated conditions believed to be the cause of the beveling — the most recent episode of which occurred during the period of deglaciation following the last
Ice Age, about 18,000 years ago.
Qin and Buehler built a computer model of water
ice, then
simulated a small crack.
The model
simulates melting at the base of the Amundsen Sea
ice shelves at current rates over several decades.
The researchers then used a computer model of Earth that
simulated growth in the Antarctic
ice sheet to see what geophysical impacts this would have aside from generally lowering the sea level.
The team used a worldwide climate model that incorporated normal month - to - month variations in sea surface temperatures and sea
ice coverage, among other climate factors, to
simulate 12,000 years» worth of weather.
To project that trend forward, the team then used models recently developed to analyze Antarctic
ice sheet collapse, plus large global data sets to tailor specific Atlantic tropical cyclone data and create «synthetic» storms to
simulate future weather patterns.
Dr Ian Joughin at the University of Washington, author of a recent study
simulating future Antarctic
ice sheet losses added: «This study does a nice job of revealing the strong thinning along the Amundsen Coast, which is consistent with theory and models indicating this region is in the early stages of collapse.»
The remote impacts of Arctic sea -
ice loss can only be properly represented using models that
simulate interactions among the ocean, sea
ice, land and atmosphere.
Scientists are working to understand their underlying processes, such as which particle surface properties encourage or discourage
ice formation, called nucleation, so they can accurately
simulate how, where, and when clouds are formed.
The low temperature -LRB--- 40º C) chamber at the newly constructed
Simulated Planetary
Ices and Environments Laboratory (SPICE Lab) at Weizmann allows her to
simulate such planetary - like processes.
Further studies using PNNL's
ice nucleation chamber will
simulate the life cycle of aerosol in a cloud.
Computational models that
simulate the climate such as CAM5, which is the atmosphere component of the Community Earth System Model used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th Assessment, are used to predict future climate changes, such as the Arctic sea
ice loss.
The researchers then ran their
ice sheet model to
simulate how the glaciers responded to global temperature rise under a
Freshwater flux has little effect on
simulated Northern Hemisphere sea
ice until the 7th decade of freshwater growth (Fig. 13d), but Southern Hemisphere sea
ice is more sensitive, with substantial response in the 5th decade and large response in the 6th decade.
The researchers then ran their
ice sheet model to
simulate how the glaciers responded to global temperature rise under a medium - high emissions scenario.
Arzel, O., T. Fichefet, and H. Goosse, 2006: Sea
ice evolution over the 20th and 21st centuries as
simulated by the current AOGCMs.
Goosse, H., F.M. Selten, R.J. Haarsma, and J.D. Opsteegh, 2003: Large sea -
ice volume anomalies
simulated in a coupled climate model.
Calov, R., et al., 2002: Large - scale instabilities of the Laurentide
ice sheet
simulated in a fully coupled climate - system model.
If they exist in the
simulated form, the researchers believe that the crystal organisms could be found in the rings of Uranus and Saturn, which are made up of small grains of
ice.
Observed decreases in arctic sea
ice extent have been shown to be inconsistent with
simulated internal variability, and consistent with the
simulated response to human influence, but SH sea
ice extent has not declined.
Climate models
simulate a decline in
ice extent, thickness and volume in Antarctica.