NVCL - HiLAT-RASM: High Latitude Application and Testing of Earth System Models - Regional Arctic System Model

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HiLAT-RASM: High Latitude Application and Testing of Earth System Models - Regional Arctic System Model

The Arctic region is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. This project uses high-performance, multi-scale computer models to analyze the processes responsible for this accelerated warming, and its impacts on the entire planet

Keywords	Arctic amplification, climate feedbacks, climate feedback Processes that can either amplify or reduce the effects of climate drivers (e.g., solar radiation; greenhouse gas emissions; and aerosols, dust, smoke, and soot). A feedback that increases an initial warming is called a "positive feedback." A feedback that reduces an initial warming and then returns the system to it's original state is a "negative feedback." Source: NASA Global Climate Change Source high-latitude climate
TYPE	Scientific Focus Area

Keywords

Arctic amplification, climate feedbacks, high-latitude climate

TYPE

Scientific Focus Area

Principal Investigator (PI)

Wilbert Weijer

Lead Institution

Other Collaborators

Indiana University Naval Postgraduate School Penn State University University of Alaska Fairbanks University of Colorado Boulder University of Washington

Warm waters of Atlantic origin entering the Arctic Ocean through the Barents Sea Opening and the Fram Strait have a significant impact on sea ice cover and the overlying atmosphere in this simulation of E3SM-Arctic. (Image credit: Texas Advanced Computing Center)

For more information

Wilbert Weijer
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Hailong Wang
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

https://hilat.org