Opendata, web and dolomites

PALGLAC SIGNED

Palaeoglaciological advances to understand Earth’s ice sheets by landform analysis

Total Cost €

0

EC-Contrib. €

0

Partnership

0

Views

0

 PALGLAC project word cloud

Explore the words cloud of the PALGLAC project. It provides you a very rough idea of what is the project "PALGLAC" about.

retreat    networks    forecasting    longer    encapsulated    landforms    actual    forecasts    warming    resolution    caveats    weather    skill    velocity    optimise    regulate    learning    base    habitation    last    climate    mapping    sheet    suitable    interact    implications    breakthroughs    palaeoglaciology    data    forecast    vastly    wp4    ice    sea    focussing    numerical    leap    geological    former    away    glaciologists    oceans    pioneering    environments    realism    formulations    deficiencies    earth    geomorphological    techniques    records    reducing    reflecting    glacial    highlight    trialling    glaciological    greenland    dynamics    inversions    human    antarctic    outcomes    inadequately    predict    timescales    thickness    temperatures    palaeo    wp2    hydrological    flow    modelled    combine    masses    subglacial    computational    machine    1000s    sunlight    geochronology    models    spin    coding    physical    made    landform    wp3    combining    revolutionise    extensive    campaign    sheets   

Project "PALGLAC" data sheet

The following table provides information about the project.

Coordinator
THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD 

Organization address
address: FIRTH COURT WESTERN BANK
city: SHEFFIELD
postcode: S10 2TN
website: www.shef.ac.uk

contact info
title: n.a.
name: n.a.
surname: n.a.
function: n.a.
email: n.a.
telephone: n.a.
fax: n.a.

 Coordinator Country United Kingdom [UK]
 Total cost 2˙425˙298 €
 EC max contribution 2˙425˙298 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
 Code Call ERC-2017-ADG
 Funding Scheme ERC-ADG
 Starting year 2018
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2018-10-01   to  2023-09-30

 Partnership

Take a look of project's partnership.

# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD UK (SHEFFIELD) coordinator 2˙425˙298.00

Map

 Project objective

Ice sheets regulate Earth’s climate by reflecting sunlight away, enabling suitable temperatures for human habitation. Warming is reducing these ice masses and raising sea level. Glaciologists predict ice loss using computational ice sheet models which interact with climate and oceans, but with caveats that highlight processes are inadequately encapsulated. Weather forecasting made a leap in skill by comparing modelled forecasts with actual outcomes to improve physical realism of their models. This project sets out an ambitious programme to adopt this data-modelling approach in ice sheet modelling. Given their longer timescales (100-1000s years) we will use geological and geomorphological records of former ice sheets to provide the evidence; the rapidly growing field of palaeoglaciology.

Focussing on the most numerous and spatially-extensive records of palaeo ice sheet activity - glacial landforms - the project aims to revolutionise understanding of past, present and future ice sheets. Our mapping campaign (Work-Package 1), including by machine learning techniques (WP2), should vastly increase the evidence-base. Resolution of how subglacial landforms are generated and how hydrological networks develop (WP3) would be major breakthroughs leading to possible inversions to information on ice thickness or velocity, and with key implications for ice flow models and hydrological effects on ice dynamics. By pioneering techniques and coding for combining ice sheet models with landform data (WP4) we will improve knowledge of the role of palaeo-ice sheets in Earth system change. Trialling of numerical models in these data-rich environments will highlight deficiencies in process-formulations, leading to better models. Applying our coding to combine landforms and geochronology to optimise modelling (WP4) of the retreat of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets since the last glacial will provide ‘spin up’ glaciological conditions for models that forecast sea level rise.

Are you the coordinator (or a participant) of this project? Plaese send me more information about the "PALGLAC" project.

For instance: the website url (it has not provided by EU-opendata yet), the logo, a more detailed description of the project (in plain text as a rtf file or a word file), some pictures (as picture files, not embedded into any word file), twitter account, linkedin page, etc.

Send me an  email (fabio@fabiodisconzi.com) and I put them in your project's page as son as possible.

Thanks. And then put a link of this page into your project's website.

The information about "PALGLAC" are provided by the European Opendata Portal: CORDIS opendata.

More projects from the same programme (H2020-EU.1.1.)

SoftHandler (2019)

Commercial feasibility of an integrated soft robotic system for industrial handling

Read More  

TRUST (2018)

Truth and Semantics

Read More  

Resonances (2019)

Resonances and Zeta Functions in Smooth Ergodic Theory and Geometry

Read More