Atmospheric Rivers: Changes in Arctic Sea Ice.

Climate modeling is a critical resource that helps scientists understand the processes and ramifications of global climate change. At the Los Alamos National Laboratory, The High-Latitude Application and Testing of Earth System Models (HiLAT) Science Focus Area, in collaboration with the Regional Arctic Systems Model (RASM) use a specialized configuration of the DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) to study the changing Arctic environment. Here we describe the collaborative effort to visualize the interactions between the ocean, sea ice, Arctic cyclones and atmospheric rivers.