An ice-free arctic? Opportunities for computational science

Computing in Science and Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 65-74

  Tremblay, L Bruno ^a   Holland, Marika M ^b   Gorodetskaya, Irina V ^c   Schmidt, Gavin A ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGOES; CLIMATE MODELS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCM); UNIVERSITIES;

CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPORATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; WATER WAVES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 34247527308     PISSN: 15219615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2007.45     Document Type: Article

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