Weddell Sea ice sheet and climate
Studying ice response during past climate changes improves understanding of Antarctic ice sheet dynamics. This knowledge helps predict how ice sheets may behave under future warming scenarios.
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Read more of: Weddell Sea ice sheet and climate
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Ocean-driven ice-shelf thinning in Antarctica
Read more of: Ocean-driven ice-shelf thinning in AntarcticaBy exploiting advances in ice sheet modelling, and new Antarctic-wide datasets, this project aims to predict how far and how fast the observed ocean-driven thinning of floating ice shelves will propagate into the interior of the Antarctic ice sheet, and assess the consequences for global sea level over decadal-to-centennial timescales.
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Ice Sheet Modelling
Read more of: Ice Sheet ModellingThe ice sheet modelling group integrates observational data with dynamical models to improve our representation of how the ice flows beneath the surface, and to reveal how the shape and flow of the Antarctic ice sheet has changed in the past.
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Antarctic Climate over the last millennia
Read more of: Antarctic Climate over the last millenniaThis project used ice cores drilled across the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctica to reconstruct past climate and understand whether the recent warming in these rapidly changing regions is unusual over longer timescales..
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Climate and Ice during the Last Interglacial
Read more of: Climate and Ice during the Last InterglacialThis project studies the last Interglacial (129-116 thousand years ago, ka) when CO2 and global temperature were both higher than they were before human industrialisation. By examining Last Interglacial climate, we can gain insights into climate processes and feedbacks close to those expected by the end of the 21st century.
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West Antarctica wind strength and atmospheric circulation
Read more of: West Antarctica wind strength and atmospheric circulationThis project used ice core chemical and biological tracers, including marine diatoms swept onto the ice sheet by wind, to reconstruct 300 years of wind strength and atmospheric circulation patterns in West Antarctica.
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Arctic marine geophysics
Read more of: Arctic marine geophysicsThis research focuses on investigating the glacial histories of Arctic ice sheets and ice caps using the marine geological record preserved on continental margins.
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Depositional patterns and records in sediment drifts off the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctica
Read more of: Depositional patterns and records in sediment drifts off the Antarctic Peninsula and West AntarcticaDuring this project essential survey data was collected to help plan future deep ocean drilling expeditions.
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Exploring Antarctica’s Ghost Mountains
Read more of: Exploring Antarctica’s Ghost MountainsAGAP was an international effort to explore the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains in the center of East Antarctica.
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Surveying West Antarctica’s unstable ice streams
Read more of: Surveying West Antarctica’s unstable ice streamsThis project investigated the ice streams of West Antarctica’s Weddell Sea sector through airborne surveys.
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BEAMISH: Basal Conditions on Rutford Ice Stream
Read more of: BEAMISH: Basal Conditions on Rutford Ice StreamBEAMISH drilled through over 2 km of ice on Rutford Ice Stream to discover when the West Antarctic Ice Sheet last collapsed and how water and soft sediments beneath it help the ice flow towards the sea.
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NEWS STORY: Polar ice cores reveal volcanic eruptions
Read more of: NEWS STORY: Polar ice cores reveal volcanic eruptionsPolar ice cores reveal volcanic eruptions that changed human history Researchers find new evidence that large eruptions were responsible for cold temperature extremes recorded since early Roman times A freshly […]
