New research presented at the American Geophysical Union’s 2021 meeting describes how climate conditions in the Arctic can, over time, influence climate outcomes thousands of miles away in the western U.S. Simulations run on NERSC’s Cori supercomputer helped confirm this link. https://cs.lbl.gov/news-media/news/2021/fire-and-ice-how-arctic-sea-ice-influences-western-u-s-wildfires/