Thursday 7 May 2009

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Modeling the atmosphere at video game speed

Researchers in ESSL and CISL are looking at how new generations of super-fast Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) and multicore chips, such as the Cell Broadband Engine, can be used in atmospheric models.

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Community Ice Sheet Model Will Aid Understanding of Sea Level Rise

If melted, all of the ice on the Earth’s surface could raise global sea level by more than 200 feet. Because most of this ice resides in the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, interest in understanding ice sheet dynamics is growing, particularly among scientists responsible for designing the Community Climate System Model (CCSM), a general circulation model built by the climate modeling community and housed at NCAR.

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Urbanization and Rainfall in Beijing

Fei Chen (RAL and TIIMES) is collaborating with colleagues at China’s Institute of Urban Meteorology to explore how growth in Beijing is changing the city’s summer rainfall patterns.

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Dr. Jenouvrier’s Penguins: Projecting Emperor Penguin Population in a Warming World

Polar bears, the poster children for Arctic climate change, are getting competition for the title of climate change casualty from the opposite side of the globe. Antarctica’s emperor penguins may face an equally dire fate.

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Press Release: World's Largest Tornado Experiment Heads for Great Plains [read more]

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Magnetic waves pervade the Sun?s corona
physicstoday.org (Registration Required) (May 2009)
Editorial Comment - Ebb Tide
Times of India (April 30, 2009)
Rivers shrinking: Flow of many rivers in decline
Weather Channel (April 28, 2009)
Study: Emissions Cuts Could Lessen Climate Change
New York Times (April 15, 2009)
Too many ?straws? sucking water out of the Colorado River
Christian Science Monitor (April 21, 2009)

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