NSFPLR-NERC: GHOST (Geophysical Habitat of Subglacial Thwaites)

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项目编号	NE/S006613/1
	NSFPLR-NERC: GHOST (Geophysical Habitat of Subglacial Thwaites)
	Robert Bingham
主持机构	University of Edinburgh
项目开始年	2018
	2018-10-01
项目结束日期	2023-09-30
资助机构	UK-NERC
项目类别	Research Grant
项目经费	223707(GBP)
国家	英国
语种	英语
英文摘要	Costs of rapid sea level rise globally to infrastructure (houses, roads, and farms, etc.) is likely to be large. A possible source of water for sea level rise is the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and Thwaites Glacier in particular. Ice sheets and glaciers contain vast quantities of water (in the form of ice) that is continually shed to the ocean, and continually replenished by snowfall (from water that evaporates from the oceans). If the amount of ice that Thwaites Glacier loses to the ocean over the next decades is much greater than the amount it receives as snowfall, then sea level in all the world's oceans would rise, possibly as much as a meter (approximately 3 feet). In order to estimate how likely such a catastrophic scenario would be, we need to better understand the surface over which Thwaites Glacier slides. If we can better characterize that layer ("is to smooth? Is it rough? Is it soft? Is it hard?"), then computer models of Thwaites would be much improved and we can make better projections of the amount of ice that Thwaites Glacier would shed to the ocean.
来源学科分类	Natural Environment Research
文献类型	项目
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/87293
专题	环境与发展全球科技态势
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Robert Bingham.NSFPLR-NERC: GHOST (Geophysical Habitat of Subglacial Thwaites).2018.