Bringing ice sheets to life: Releasing a dynamic ice sheet modeling workflow for Australia's climate model
ACCESS-NRI has released key components of the Ice Sheet and Sea-level System Model (ISSM) workflow to Australian researchers, integrating a dynamic ice-sheet model into the ACCESS climate suite. This allows for the first time a two-way interaction modeling between ice, ocean, and atmosphere for all of Antarctica.
Why it matters
Accurately modeling dynamic ice sheets is crucial for understanding and predicting global climate change, sea-level rise, and their impacts on weather patterns and ecosystems worldwide. This advancement improves climate projections.
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Add as preferred source Visualization of Antarctica. Credit: Owen Kaluza, ACCESS-NRI Ice sheets are fundamental components of the Earth system. Antarctica and Greenland, the two ice sheets currently on Earth, don't just affect their own regions: What happens on these vast masses of land ice influences weather, climate, society and the environment around the planet.
Ice sheets are the largest drivers of global sea-level change on centennial and longer timescales, and they play a fundamental role in regulating incoming solar radiation and oceanic and atmospheric circulation.
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