The Woods Institute is now part of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Capturing Glacier History
The rate and amount of sea level rise is one of the most tangible and societally impacting effects of a changing climate, especially for the millions of people who live in coastal areas. Improving projections of future sea level requires observing, modeling and understanding subsurface processes across spatial and temporal scales.
Funding Year:
2019
Region(s):
Arctic Ocean
Research Areas:
Climate
Although observational data has been collected across much of Antarctica and Greenland, producing records of observations that span more than five decades, no cross-platform time-series of conditions have been produced. This project would digitize, calibrate and release film-based radar sounding data sets for the Greenland Ice Sheet held at the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen.
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Principal Investigators:
Dustin Schroeder (Geophysics)
Keith Winstein (Computer Science)
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