Modelling the future of coastal soft cliffs underchanging climate

模拟气候变化下沿海软悬崖的未来

• 批准号: 2746468
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2746468
• 关键词: Modelling; future; coastal; soft; cliffs

Applications are invited for a PhD studentship within the NERC-ENVISIONDoctoralTrainingPartnership with a project entitled: "Modelling the future of coastal soft cliffs under changing climate". Coastal soft cliffs are extremely important components of coastal environments worldwide. Their retreat is a global problem that threatens coastal communities. Climate change affects soft cliffsretreat; however,research is needed to understand and quantify this effect. To do so, we also must understand and model physical thedrivers offailure of soft cliffs.This PhD project will develop numerical methods to describe the future behaviour of soft cliffs and analysetwo case studies representative of cliff/beach systems worldwide: the Happisburgh (U.K.) and Montauk Point, Long Island(USA) coasts. The project will start by analysing existing data, integrated with new field work,to clarify and model the physical processes driving cliff failure that are still poorly understood. Thereafter, the focus will be on devising an innovative technique to model the long-term behaviour of these systems. Finally, the effect of climate change on cliff retreat in the two casestudieswill be modelled, under high-end emission scenarios of the IPCC.

邀请申请在NERC博士培训伙伴关系内的博士研究生奖学金，项目名为：“气候变化下沿海软悬崖的未来建模”。海岸软崖是世界海岸环境的重要组成部分。它们的撤退是一个全球性问题，威胁着沿海社区。气候变化会影响软悬崖的退缩;然而，需要研究来理解和量化这种影响。要做到这一点，我们还必须了解和模拟物理驱动器的软悬崖。这个博士项目将开发数值方法来描述未来的行为软悬崖和分析两个案例研究代表悬崖/海滩系统世界各地：Montauk Point，Long Island（美国）海岸该项目将首先分析现有数据，并与新的实地工作相结合，以澄清和模拟驱动悬崖失效的物理过程，这些物理过程仍然知之甚少。此后，重点将放在设计一种创新技术来模拟这些系统的长期行为。最后，气候变化对两个案例研究中悬崖后退的影响将在IPCC的高端排放情景下进行建模。