British Antarctic Survey builds AI to predict ice loss
Daily MailA new artificial intelligence system is about to be used to predict ice loss in the Arctic, a study reveals. Predictions from the AI could underpin new early-warning systems that protect communities and Arctic wildlife, such as polar bears, from the impacts of sea ice loss, experts say. The tool 'learns' how sea ice changes from thousands of years of climate simulation data, along with decades of observational data to predict the extent of Arctic sea ice months into the future. Sea ice in the north pole and south pole is very hard to predict because it has 'very complex interactions' with the atmosphere above and the ocean below Artic polar bears are being forced to migrate to nearby solid land in the Arctic circle like Greenland and northern Canada due to less sea ice The sensitivity of sea ice to increasing temperatures has caused the summer Arctic sea ice area to halve over the past four decades – equivalent to the loss of an area around 25 times the size of Britain. 'This step-change in sea ice forecasting ability brings us closer to conservation tools that mitigate risks associated with rapid sea ice loss,' the study authors say in their paper, published in Nature Communications.
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