Summary: Change is in the air, and water, of the Arctic Ocean. Scientists are keeping an eye out on shrinking sea ice, five million square miles of floating ice surrounding the North Pole. It bounces sunlight back to space, which keeps polar regions cool and helps moderate global climate. An award-winning simulation shows the complex changes in circulation happening at one of Earth’s most remote and inaccessible places, the Arctic Ocean. The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) shared an award with UT Austin’s Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) for the Best Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Showcase, "Circulation in the Arctic Ocean and its Marginal Seas: From Low Latitudes to the Pole and Back." The supercomputing conference SC18 gave the award in November of 2018 to the team of lead author Greg Foss and Briana Bradshaw of TACC; and An Nguyen, Arash Bigdeli, Victor Ocaña and Patrick Heimbach of ICES. Podcast host Jorge Salazar interviews Greg Foss of TACC about the Arctic Ocean simulation and creating visualizations for science. Story: www.tacc.utexas.edu/-/award-winning…to-arctic-ocean Music Credit: Raro Bueno, Chuzausen freemusicarchive.org/music/Chuzausen/
