Ice sheets and rising sea level

A critical factor in understanding how ice shed from Greenland and Antarctica contributes to rising sea levels is figuring out how to accurately simulate the movement of ice in an ice sheet. More. . .

Forbes elected to Cray Users Group board

Liam Forbes, a high-performance computing analyst with the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center and a former top-place finisher as a UAF student in the international Mathematical Contest in Modeling, is now a member of the board for the association of users and organizations around the world that own Cray Inc. computer systems. More ...

Arctic-accurate weather modeling focus of two-day meeting

More than 40 scientists will meet in Fairbanks May 12-13 to discuss how to improve current weather forecast models and develop new, more accurate modeling methods in one of the nation's most extreme environments. More ...

ARSC's new "Pingo" supercomputer

Pingo is the name of the new Cray XT5 supercomputer arriving at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks this fall. More ...

Cross-country art demonstrates power of science

Employees at Rochester Institute of Technology will show New York high school students how to create stunning artwork in Alaska from 4,000 miles away. More ...

Computer model shows faster Arctic ice melt

The Arctic Ocean has been warming in recent decades and it appears to have accelerated in the last several years. Previous computer models haven't agreed with field observations. However, a model developed by Naval Postgraduate School Associate Research Professor Wieslaw Maslowski paints a more accurate picture of the speed at which summer Arctic sea ice melt is occurring. Maslowski is running code on the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center's Midnight, a 2,312-processor Sun Microsystems Opteron cluster, to improve models for a more realistic representation of Arctic and global climate change. Maslowski met with reporters covering the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco Dec. 12 More ...

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