Watching the Arctic Melt, part 1
Watching the Arctic Melt, part 1
Symposium on the Arctic Ocean
Understanding Arctic Sea Ice
Understanding Arctic Sea Ice
Read more about Principal Research Scientist Patrick Heimbach's work in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT News, the MITgcm website, and the website for NASA's ECCO2.About the animation: The simulation was conducted with the MIT coupled ocean-sea ice general ...
Modeling the Arctic Ocean - MITgcm on Ice
Modeling the Arctic Ocean - MITgcm on Ice
The Arctic Ocean halocline, a layer of high vertical salinity gradient and near-freezing temperature, insulates the surface sea-ice from heat stored in Atlantic water with a significant impact on sea-ice growth and melt. An understanding of its role in the general ...
MIT Museum Talkback 360 - Visualizing Science: The Changing ...
MIT Museum Talkback 360 - Visualizing Science: The Changing Arctic Ice
April 17, 2012 Visualizing Science: The Changing Arctic IceExplore the Arctic ice cap with photographer Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist John Toole, and MIT oceanographer Patrick Heimbach. See stunning images from ...
The Energy Problem and the Interplay Between Basic and ...
The Energy Problem and the Interplay Between Basic and Applied Research
05/12/2009 4:00 PM 10"250Steven Chu, Secretary of EnergyDescription: The situation facing our planet could hardly be more dire: There's increasingly dangerous competition among nations for ever scarce energy resources, and climate change is racing ahead of ...
Climate Change in a Changing World: Meeting the Needs of ...
Climate Change in a Changing World: Meeting the Needs of Humanity and the ...
04/22/2009 7:00 PM Simmons HallSteven Hamburg, Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense FundDescription: The "dominant story of the next century" will be one of either gloom or redemption, says Steven Hamburg, depending on how humanity chooses to address climate change. ...