Conference of Mathematics of Sea Ice
Abstract
PROJECT SUMMARY Conference on Mathematics of Sea Ice One of the most critical scientific challenges of our time is to understand Earth’s climate and how it is changing. Sea ice is not only a sensitive, leading indicator of climate change, but a key player in Earth’s climate system. Improving climate projections depends on a more rigorous, quantitative understanding of sea ice properties and processes, as well as advancing how sea ice is represented in climate models. Moreover, the precipitous losses of summer Arctic sea ice have resulted in the opening of transit routes and vast regions for resource exploration and development. Thus there is significant naval interest in improving our understanding and predictions of ice pack properties over a range of space and time scales, such as ice thickness and concentration distributions, and ice edge location. Mathematics offers a broad range of powerful ideas, frameworks, and methods which can help achieve these goals. The fields of partial differential equations, dynamical systems, numerical analysis, stochastic processes and probability theory all have great bearing on the development of sea ice and climate models. This conference will explore how math is being used to address fundamental questions about sea ice, its role in the climate system, and how we model it.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Aug 12, 2016
- Source ID
- N000141512455
Entities
People
- Kenneth M. Golden
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Utah