EURICE

European Ice Sheet Modeling Initiative

Coordinatore	UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID    more  Organization address address: AVENIDA DE SENECA 2 city: MADRID postcode: 28040 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Maribel Cognome: Rodríguez Villa Email: send email Telefono: 3434910000000 Fax: 34913946382
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Spain [ES]
Totale costo	166˙336 €
EC contributo	166˙336 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-05-01   -   2015-04-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID  Organization address address: AVENIDA DE SENECA 2 city: MADRID postcode: 28040 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Maribel Cognome: Rodríguez Villa Email: send email Telefono: 3434910000000 Fax: 34913946382	ES (MADRID)	coordinator	166˙336.20

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Continental ice sheets play an important role in the Earth system, holding enough water to raise sea level by several tens of meters. Due to the size and complexity of these systems, numerical models are needed to gain insight into their behavior and so computation has become a central part of the science. With these ideas in mind, this project has three goals: (1) the development of a new coupled climate-ice sheet model (2) advanced research on the stability of the Greenland ice sheet (GIS) during the past; and (3) the estimation of the future contribution of the GIS to sea level rise.

In Earth system model development, model usability and reproducibility has rarely been emphasized, often to the detriment of long-term research goals. We will address this issue by building a modeling framework that is highly flexible, user-oriented and based on modern programming practices. We will incorporate and improve an intermediate complexity coupled climate-ice sheet model, a new approach that includes physically based parameterizations of critical feedbacks between the climate and the ice sheet. This will be an investment into the ability of our research group to perform novel simulations and it will provide the foundation for a new line of teaching in geosciences and numerical modeling.

We will use this model to investigate the sensitivity of the GIS to climatic changes. We will perform several novel experiments concerning past evolution of the GIS, such as the first glacial inception of Greenland and other warm periods when the GIS contributed significantly to sea levels higher than today. These experiments will not only allow us to answer several open questions concerning the paleo evolution of Greenland, we will be able to constrain model parameters to realistic ranges using paleo data. We will then use the constrained model versions to quantify, in a probabilistic way, the future contribution of the GIS to sea level rise under various global warming scenarios.'