| 项目编号: | NE/I016678/1
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| 项目名称: | Quantifying the role of marine ice in Larsen C ice shelf dynamics |
| 作者: | Adrian John Luckman
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| 承担单位: | Swansea University
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| 批准年: | 2010
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| 开始日期: | 2011-01-10
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| 结束日期: | 2012-30-04
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| 资助金额: | GBP49218
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| 资助来源: | UK-NERC
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| 项目类别: | Research Grant
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| 国家: | UK
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Climate & Climate Change 
; (10%)
; Geosciences 
; (60%)
; Marine environments 
; (30%)
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| 英文摘要: | The Antarctic continent is fringed by ice shelves, the floating extensions of glaciers and ice streams, which provide an important buffer between the ice sheets and the ocean. The collapse of ice shelves has been shown to allow inland ice to accelerate, thus leading to sea level rise. Previous collapses are not completely explained, partly because the structure of ice shelves is only now being understood. In this small project we will focus on an emerging aspect of ice shelf structure which may be fundamental to their stability. Where two ice-shelf-feeding glaciers merge, the ice between them is thin and water can freeze onto the base of this ice to form a band of 'marine ice' which is then entrained with the glacier (or 'meteoric') ice as it flows with the ice shelf towards the open ocean. Marine ice is warmer, softer, and more permeable than meteoric ice and can therefore provide bands of weakness which need to be better understood. We will investigate this aspect of the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula using unique ice-penetrating radar data that we have collected over the last two seasons, remote sensing techniques that we have been developing for many years, and specific expertise in ice shelf modelling. Within the eight months of the project we will be able to test the importance of marine ice bands in the stability of Antarctic ice shelves where they form. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/103371
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| Appears in Collections: | 科学计划与规划
气候变化与战略
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| Recommended Citation: | |
Adrian John Luckman. Quantifying the role of marine ice in Larsen C ice shelf dynamics. 2010-01-01.
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