FUTURE OF ICE ON EARTH

Peak of Research Excellence

HOW WILL THE EARTH'S ICE BE IMPACTED BY CLIMATE CHANGE?

Future of Ice on Earth focuses on research into ice sheets and glaciers on a global scale, observing, modelling, and predicting future ice loss from all glaciated areas in a warming world. Our researchers are working to understand the causes of ongoing changes in Antarctica, Greenland and alpine areas, as well as assessing future changes and resulting impacts on human environments worldwide.

Addressing these global scale challenges involves advancing our understanding of external and internal processes connected to the dynamics of glacier flow and interactions with the ocean and atmosphere. We develop ice-flow and iceocean models, which underpin research activities at several UK Universities and worldwide and use these to simulate the future of the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets and their interactions with the climate system.

We aim to provide much improved assessments of the Future of Ice on Earth and assist policy makers in planning and developing mitigation measures.This research will ultimately help us plan for, adapt to and reduce the sea level impacts of climate change globally.

OUR ICE RESEARCH COMMUNITY

As arguably the world’s leading group in the studies of the interactions between ice sheets and oceans, we work with many other research groups and are involved in a wide range of international projects.

Our researchers work together to predict global sea level changes, and in particular the sea level contribution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet by developing and running numerical ice and ocean models. These researchers are developing their own ice sheet model and new ice-ocean model configurations which underpin research activities at several UK Universities and worldwide.

The total grant income generated by the Peak since 2018 is £10.2million. We hold grants of over £6.6million from NSFgeo, NERC, EU and other funding sources.