Next Generation of Sea Level Projections
How much and how fast will the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets contribute to future sea level?
Project description
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are the largest potential contributor to future sea-level, but knowing how the ice sheet will change and how much sea level we need to prepare and adapt for requires a coordinated effort between ice sheet models and climate model projections. The Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project for CMIP7 (ISMIP7) is an international effort lead at UB.
This ELN project will help the experimental design of ISMIP7 by collecting and analyzing potential climate models and future emission simulations datasets that can be used to drive ice sheet models. The work will also entail dataset preparation such as changing grid resolution.
Project outcome
The project outcomes will be a series of data products that will in turn be used by the international ice sheet modeling community for making sea level projections of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
Learning outcomes
The specific outcomes of this project will be identified by the faculty mentor at the beginning of your collaboration.
Project details
| Length of commitment | About a semester; 3-5 months |
| Start time | Anytime |
| In-person, remote, or hybrid? | Hybrid |
| Level of collaboration | Individual student project |
| Benefits | Potential academic credit |
| Who is eligible | Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors who have familiarity with Python. |
Core partners
- ISMIP7: Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project
Project mentor
Sophie Nowicki
Empire Innovation Professor
Earth Sciences
Phone: (716) 645-4335
Email: sophien@buffalo.edu
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Preparation activities
The specific preparation activities for this project will be customized through discussions between you and your project mentor. Please be sure to ask them for the instructions to complete the required preparation activities.
Keywords
python, earth sciences, sea level, greenland, antarctica, modeling, climate, computing