HOW WILL THE EARTH'S ICE BE IMPACTED BY CLIMATE CHANGE?
Northumbria academics in this Peak of Excellence are studying the future of ice sheets and glaciers worldwide in a warming world. This involves understanding the causes of ongoing changes in Antarctica, Greenland and alpine areas, as well as assessing future changes and resulting impacts on human environments globally.
This research will ultimately help us plan, 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.
We hold grants of over £6.6million from NSFgeo, NERC, EU and other funding sources.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
PROPHET (PROcesses, drivers, Prediction: modeling the History and Evolution of Thwaites). Northumbria University is leading UK operations of PROPHET, part of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC). This is a major interdisciplinary project seeking to answer important questions about one of the fastest changing areas of Antarctica.
TiPACCs (Tipping Points in the Antarctic ClimateSystem). This is a large European Research Project involving several European nations. The UK component of this research project is conducted at the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Northumbria University.
ICE-FLOW MODEL
Úa is a finite-element ice-flow model developed at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle, UK, by Hilmar Gudmundsson.
Access the model on GitHub
ACADEMIC LEAD
Professor Hilmar Gudmundsson
