Growth and Decay of ice sheets during glacial cycles:the example of Europe

冰川周期期间冰盖的生长和衰退：以欧洲为例

• 批准号: DP0449983
• 负责人: Prof Kurt Lambeck
• 金额: $ 20.18万
• 依托单位: The Australian National University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2004-01-01 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0449983
• 关键词: Growth; Decay; ice; sheets; during

The proposal is to develop a comprehensive model for the growth and decay of the ice sheets of Europe during the last glacial cycle, using a combination of diverse field evidence with geophysical modelling. The outcomes provide boundary conditions for climate models (times of inception and decay, ice limits, ice thickness) including processes driving climate as well as constraints on the Earth's mantle viscosity. Thus the project contributes to the quantitative characterisation of both climate change and planetary structure. In an Australian context, these outcomes form important elements in the development of predictive models for sea-level change.

该提案将利用各种实地证据和地球物理模型相结合，为欧洲冰盖在最后一次冰期周期的增长和衰减建立一个综合模型。 这些结果为气候模型提供了边界条件（开始和衰减的时间，冰极限，冰厚度），包括驱动气候的过程以及对地球地幔粘度的限制。 因此，该项目有助于对气候变化和行星结构进行定量描述。 在澳大利亚，这些成果是制定海平面变化预测模型的重要因素。