Northumbria academics in this Peak of Excellence are studying the future of ice sheets and glaciers worldwide in a warming world. This involves understanding the causes of ongoing changes in Antarctica, Greenland and alpine areas, as well as assessing future changes and resulting impacts on human environments globally.
This research will ultimately help us plan, adapt to and reduce the sea level impacts of climate change globally.
As arguably the world’s leading group in the studies of the interactions between ice sheets and oceans, we work with many other research groups and are involved in a wide range of international projects.
Our researchers work together to predict global sea level changes, and in particular the sea level contribution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet by developing and running numerical ice and ocean models. These researchers are developing their own ice sheet model and new ice-ocean model configurations which underpin research activities at several UK Universities and worldwide.
We hold grants of over £6.6million from NSFgeo, NERC, EU and other funding sources.
Úa is a finite-element ice-flow model developed at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle, UK, by Hilmar Gudmundsson.
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