How statistical physics illuminates sea ice, a key part of Earth’s climate system – @theU

How statistical physics illuminates sea ice, a key part of Earth's climate system - @theU

Since beginning to study polar sea ice at NASA in 1975, mathematician Ken Golden has helped document alarming shifts in seasonal variation, the thin crust covering the Arctic oceans. and Antarctica. There is far less ice now, and since then, the University of Utah scientist has spent most of his career applying statistical mechanics—the physics … Leer más