Monday 17 June 2013

NET GLEANINGS 018

Unusual changes in the jet-stream caused record melting on Greenland:
'Research from the University of Sheffield has shown that unusual changes in atmospheric jet stream circulation caused the exceptional surface-melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) in summer 2012.'

Tianhe-2, the new Chinese supercomputer is twice as fast as its nearest rival: