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Work Packages description

WP1 Sea Ice Code Development — Optimization

Our ambition is to develop of the neXtSIM sea ice model to run on massively parallel architectures, making its...

WP2 Sea Ice Rheology — Physical Parameterizations

We are concerned with enhancing the mechanical parametrizations of the rheological framework employed in the...

WP3 Ice–Ocean Interactions

Across a single sea ice floe just a few meters wide, upper ocean exchanges of heat, momentum, and freshwater...

WP4 Data Assimilation — Machine Learning

We complement the model development efforts of the other WPs by providing data-constrained sea ice analyses....

WP5 Climate Implications

Sea ice is at the heart of numerous climate feedbacks that occur in polar regions and that can play an...

  • This project is supported by Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt that bets early on exceptional people making the world better, particularly through innovative breakthroughs in science and technology. It is a project of Schmidt Futures' Virtual Earth System Research Institute (VESRI).