Parallel Ice Sheet Model gains notoriety
July 12, 2012
When a small team of glaciologists and mathematicians at the UAF Geophysical Institute
developed the Parallel Ice Sheet Model in 2003, they had no idea that the software
program would rise to international prominence.
They created the model, commonly referred to as PISM, in an effort to better understand
the physics of ice sheets, whose flow is difficult to observe in the field. Researchers
incorporated ice physics, the effects of snow, air temperature, ocean temperature
and other environmental influences into the program and then offered it free to the
world.
To read full article: Geophysical Institute.