The Stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet

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项目编号	1741833
	The Stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet
	Jason Briner
主持机构	SUNY at Buffalo
项目开始年	2017
	2017-05-01
项目结束日期	2018-10-31
资助机构	US-NSF
项目类别	Standard Grant
项目经费	49777(USD)
国家	美国
语种	英语
英文摘要	The stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet has important implications for possible future sea level rise. Recent observational data suggest an acceleration of mass loss, and consequent global sea level rise, from Greenland. There is, though, no consensus on what future trends may be. Thus, there is urgency in defining priorities for addressing the Greenland Ice Sheet stability problem. Funds are provided for a workshop on the stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet. A community of experts will be assembled to assess the current state of knowledge of Greenland Ice Sheet history and sensitivity to climate forcing. The group also will suggest key research priorities that would promote traction on the problem of Greenland Ice Sheet stability. Improved understanding of Greenland Ice Sheet history, the associated processes, and its possible future will significantly impact our ability to predict and mitigate sea level rise. The workshop will guarantee gender and age diversity, thus ensuring the introduction of new members to the national and international community represented at the workshop. Understanding ice sheet stability is important for understanding and projecting sea level rise. However, we do not currently have data or models that allow for a definitive consensus view of ice sheet variability during the past, much less the future. Recent measurements of cosmogenic isotopes demand the absence of ice at the GISP2 summit drill site for significant portions of the Pleistocene. On the other hand, new and published data from other ice cores in central Greenland and from offshore sediment records have been interpreted to suggest persistence of the ice sheet through the Plio-Pleistocene. While numerical ice sheet simulations reveal a smaller, but relatively intact Greenland Ice Sheet during the Last Interglaciation, new discoveries from the glacial dynamics community reveal processes that could lead to the collapse of continental ice in Greenland. Thus, the workshop will focus on assessing and reconciling the state of knowledge and understanding of four important sub-disciplines - ice coring, stratigraphic records, ice sheet modeling, and ice sheet processes.
文献类型	项目
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/70997
专题	环境与发展全球科技态势
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jason Briner.The Stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet.2017.