Colloquium Michiel van den Broeke

Datum:
13 January
Tijd:
10:30 - 13:00
Locatie:
Tu/e Campus, Ceres Building, Room 0.31
Organisator:
Eindhoven Multiscale Instituut

The ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica together contain enough water to raise global sea levels by more than 60 m, if completely melted. But assessing the cause of the recent mass fluctuations in these huge ice sheets is difficult: they are caused one hand by short-term fluctuations in meteorology, bringing snow to the ice sheets in irregular events, and slower variations in ice flow ('ice sheet weather'), removing mass from the continent. Bringing these mass fluxes together requires a mix of modeling and observations from satellites and in-situ instruments. In this presentation we discuss these techniques and the challenges ahead to combine time scales of variability in the atmosphere, sea ice, ocean and land ice in an Earth System Model.