Ice streams and ice sheet sensitivity
Ice streams can display oscillatory and even chaotic behaviour. How does the state of ice streams influence the predictability of the ice sheet response to anthropogenic forcing?
There are multiple approaches to this topic, and so there is some flexibility if you would like to go in this direction. It can be approached using conceptual models like Robel’s ice stream oscillator, or full fledged ice sheet models such as PISM.
this study will build on
- The transient sensitivity of sea level rise in CMIP6 models see this study
- A Zero dimensional model of ice stream behaviour
- Kolja Leon Kypke’s PhD thesis.
- Existing sea level data and models.
- My past sea level studies.