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项目编号 | 1543530 |
Collaborative Research: Stability and Dynamics of Antarctic Marine Outlet Glaciers | |
Cornelis van der Veen | |
主持机构 | University of Kansas Center for Research Inc |
项目开始年 | 2016 |
2016-06-01 | |
项目结束日期 | 2019-05-31 |
资助机构 | US-NSF |
项目类别 | Continuing grant |
项目经费 | 440000(USD) |
国家 | 美国 |
语种 | 英语 |
英文摘要 | Van der Veen/1543530 The objective of this research is to gain better understanding of the West Antarctic ice flow in the transition region from grounded ice to floating ice shelves and investigate the conditions that can initiate and sustain major retreat of these glaciers. Several major Antarctic outlet glaciers and ice streams will be investigated using a suite of observational techniques and modeling tools. Glaciers include Thwaites Glacier, which has become a focal point in the discussion of West Antarctic retreat, Whillans Ice Stream as an example of the archetype ice stream, and Byrd Glacier, a major outlet glacier draining East Antarctica through the Transantarctic Mountains into the Ross Ice Shelf. This study will investigate whether the ongoing changes in these glaciers will lead to long-term mass loss (the onset of ice sheet collapse), or whether these glaciers will quickly stabilize with a new geometry. To adequately incorporate the dynamic behavior of outlet glaciers and ice streams requires inclusion of the relevant physical processes, and the development of regional models that employ a numerical grid with a horizontal grid spacing sufficiently refined to capture smaller-scale bed topographic features that may control the flow of these glaciers. This award revisits the issue of stability of marine-terminating glaciers whose grounding line is located on a retrograded bed slope. In particular, an attempt will be made to resolve the question whether observed rapid changes are the result of perturbations at the terminus or grounding line, or whether these changes reflect ice-dynamical forcing over the grounded reaches. High-resolution satellite imagery will be used to investigate ice-flow perturbations on smaller spatial scales than has been done before, to evaluate the importance of localized sites of high basal resistance on grounding-line stability. This collaborative project involves a range of modeling strategies including force-budget analysis, flow-band modeling, Full Stokes modeling for local studies, and using the Ice Sheet System Model developed at JPL for regional modeling. Broader Impacts include training two graduate students in computer simulations and ice sheet modeling algorithms. The work will also expand on a web-based interactive flowline model, so that it includes more realistic grounding line dynamics. |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/69625 |
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推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Cornelis van der Veen.Collaborative Research: Stability and Dynamics of Antarctic Marine Outlet Glaciers.2016. |
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