A team of world-leading polar experts have been trialling a new tool to better predict how ice sheets will evolve over time.
Northumbria University, Newcastle is already known as a centre of excellence for research into cold and palaeo environments. It has an outstanding group of glaciology experts with extensive expertise of undertaking research in both the Arctic and Antarctic regions.
The University is currently developing a new modelling tool that will help researchers working in Arctic and glacial regions to predict how ice sheets will adapt and behave in different environments. The tool is particularly useful for researchers as it is flexible and can recalculate the behaviours of ice sheets to understand how they will evolve over time.
Researchers showcased the new tool to attendees at an international workshop on ice flow modelling. The attendees took part in sessions to learn how to use the model and were also able to hear from global experts including representatives from British Antarctic Survey and the Institute of Climate Impact Studies.
Hilmar Gudmundsson, Professor of Glaciology at Northumbria University, said: “There are a number of good tools which can help to model how ice flow will adjust in response to different environmental circumstances. Many of these focus on the past to model the historical behaviour of ice sheetsâ€. Read more.