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Modeled Arctic Sea Ice Thickness from 1940 through 2060: View #1
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Part of the ongoing research into polar ice trends encompasses evaluation
from sophisticated computer models. At the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
at Princeton University, run by NASA's sibling agency, NOAA, researchers modeled
a 5,000 year period to see how polar ice might behave over time depending
on several different variables. This visualization shows a 120-year slice
of that complete model, essentially offering a research window on to experimental
processes that require longer time frames than human lifetimes. According
to the model shown here, projecting a period from 1940 to 2060, there is evidence
to suggest human factors have had a measurable effect on Arctic ice decreases.
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Arctic Sea Ice Thickness from 1940 through 2060 from the GFDL Coupled Global Climate Model
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Blue represents ice concentration from 1979 and red represents ice concentration from 1998
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Arctic sea ice thickness in 1940 from the GFDL Coupled Global Climate Model.
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Arctic sea ice thickness in 2000 from the GFDL Coupled Global Climate Model
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Arctic sea ice thickness in 2060 from the GFDL Coupled Global Climate Model
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Video ID: SVS2000-0004 *
Animator: Tom Biddlecome
Studio: SVS
Date Completed: May 30, 2000
Duration: 399 frames,
13.3 seconds
Scientist: Keith Dixon (NOAA/GFDL)
Datasets: GFDL Coupled Global Climate Model
Keywords: Ice
DLESESubject: Cryology
Data Collected: 1940-2060
Story: stories/arctic/index.html
Animation Series: Arctic Ice
Please give credit for this visualization to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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