Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/A/S/2002/01000/2
Effect of the spatial variability of physical parameters on the rheology of temperate glaciers and their modelled response to climate change.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor BP Hubbard, Swansea University, Geography
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor HM Mader, University of Bristol, Earth Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor LJ West, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor T Murray, Swansea University, College of Science
- Grant held at:
- Swansea University, Geography
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Freshwater
- Earth
- Overall Classification:
- Freshwater
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Science Topics:
- Quaternary Science
- Properties Of Earth Materials
- Hydrological Processes
- Glacial & Cryospheric Systems
- Abstract:
- The composition and softness of temperate glacier ice vary spatially, but in an unknown manner. The effects of such variations are thereby excluded from ice flow models, reducing their ability to predict valley glacier response to future climate change. In this project we will integrate field radar data with laboratory measurements of ice crystallography, water content, vein water composition and time-domain reflectometry to reconstruct the 3-d physical structure of a temperate glacier. Systematic spatial variations in this structure will then be compared with the glacier's 3-d velocity field to tune a rheologically-distributed numerical model of ice flow. Finally, we will develop a scheme to allow all such models to evolve their own softness fields by expressing recorded spatial variations in ice properties in terms of their large-scale glaciological controls.
- Period of Award:
- 1 May 2005 - 31 Dec 2007
- Value:
- £24,890 Split Award
Authorised funds only
- NERC Reference:
- NER/A/S/2002/01000/2
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Standard Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Standard Grant
This grant award has a total value of £24,890
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Staff | Total - T&S | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|
| £11,043 | £8,766 | £5,080 |
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