| Dynamics of the Antarctic ice cap and climatic changes |
Identifier financieringsorganisatie: A3/03/002 (Other contract id)
Periode: September 1992 tot September 1996
Status: Afgelopen
Thesaurustermen Geomorfologie; Glaciers; Ijskappen; Klimaat; Modellering
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| Instituten (2) |
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Centrum voor Cartografie en GIS (CCG), meer
- Federaal Wetenschapsbeleid (BELSPO), meer, financier
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| Abstract |
A] Study on the behaviour of the Antarctic ice cap (specific drainage basins, ice divides) in terms of climatic changes, with the help of a refined local 3D model and a flow-line model.
B] Field observations of the dynamics of glaciers (ice thickness and flow velocities), for the calibration and validation of modelling experiments.
OBJECTIVES
- To determine the implication of the regional behaviour of the Antarctic ice cap in relation to:
a) the general climatic history during the Cenozoic and the atmosphere-cryosphere-sea level relationship;
b) the role of the local geomorphology (subglacial relief, gradient) in the reaction of the ice cap to climatic forcing;
c) the stability of the Antarctic ice cap and its future behaviour.
- To simulate the local behaviour of glaciers in relation to glaciation and deglaciation during a glacial cycle. |
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