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Friday 20 November 2009

Antarctic Warming, Antarctic Cooling

Until recently, the Antarctic ice sheet looked to be bucking the global warming trend. This assessment relied on temperature data collected from a sparse network of mostly coastal weather stations. To provide a more complete picture of Antarctica’s historic surface temperature regime, a team of U.S. scientists employed an innovative technique to construct 50-year estimates of the near-surface temperature anomalies for the entire continent.

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Small but Mighty: Virus-sized Pollutants Affect Mexico City Human Health and Climate

thumbnailAir pollution causes significant human health and environmental problems; in megacities, with populations in excess of 10 million, these impacts are magnified.

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Modeling the atmosphere at video game speed

thumbnailResearchers in ESSL and CISL are looking at how new generations of super-fast Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) and multicore chips, such as the Cell Broadband Engine, can be used in atmospheric models.

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Community Ice Sheet Model Will Aid Understanding of Sea Level Rise

thumbnailIf melted, all of the ice on the Earth’s surface could raise global sea level by more than 200 feet. Because most of this ice resides in the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, interest in understanding ice sheet dynamics is growing, particularly among scientists responsible for designing the Community Climate System Model (CCSM), a general circulation model built by the climate modeling community and housed at NCAR.

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