Arctic Ocean-Sea Ice Interactions

This animation visualizes simulation results from research at The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Computational and Engineering Sciences. Shown is the daily average temperature field of warm sub-surface water of subtropical origin carried with the Norwegian Atlantic boundary current into the Arctic Ocean, northwestward along the West Spitsbergen current and northeastward through the Barents Sea opening. High performance computing is required to capture mesoscale eddies of length-scale less than 15 km shedding off and transporting heat and freshwater toward the ocean interior.