Project information
WARNER, Dr Roland
Antarctic Climate & Ecosystem CRC
Australia (or home country)
Project aim
The balance between ice accumulation and loss for Antarctica will be investigated using computer simulations, to predict changes in sea level and input of fresh water to the Southern Ocean. The physics of ice flow and transitions between ice sheet, ice streams and ice shelf flow will be treated in detail. Coupled models will also examine interaction between floating ice shelves and the ocean circulating beneath, since this contact provides an important path for climatic warming to influence the loss of ice. Comparisons with present day field observations and projections for sea-level and climate change will be developed.
Related publications
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Testing the sensitivity of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to
Southern Ocean dynamics: past changes and future
implications Journal of Quaternary Science, 2014
(Ref: 15410)
Authors:Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Pine Island Glacier (Antarctica) velocities from Landsat7 images between 2001 and 2011: FFT-based image correlation for images with data gaps. Journal of Glaciology, 2013
(Ref: 15117)
Authors:Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Borehole temperatures reveal a changed energy budget at Mill Island, East Antarctica over recent decades. The Cryosphere, 2013
(Ref: 14952)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Ocean circulation and basal melting below the Fimbul Ice Shelf, Antarctica. 26th International Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes (FRISP), Uto, Sweden, 12-14 June 2012, 2012
(Ref: 14965)
Category 3: Verbal presentation
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Modelling the interaction between Antarctica and the Southern Ocean from 1992 to 2007. International Glaciological Society Symposium on Interactions of Ice Sheets and Glaciers with the Ocean, La Jolla, USA, 5-10 June 2011, 2011
(Ref: 14964)
Authors:Category 3: Verbal presentation