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Simulated changes in East Antarctic mass balance and grounded area in response to a shift to circumpolar deep water forced melting from the present-day oceanic regime

The dataset contains processed model output of future simulations of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet using the Ua ice dynamics model (https://github.com/GHilmarG/UaSource). Simulations were run for 200 years comparing the impact of both an intermediate (RCP4.5 emissions scenario) and extreme (RCP8.5 emissions scenario) as well as maintaining the current oceanic regime or switching to one dominated by circumpolar deep water intrusions. A reference run with constant present-day forcing is also included to assess the relative impacts of the various forcing scenarios.

This work was primarily funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, grant number NE/R000719/1. James Jordan, Hilmar Gudmundsson and Adrian Jenkins received funding from the European Union''s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement no. 869304, PROTECT. Bertie Miles was also supported by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (ECF-2021-484).

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Alternate title
Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01712
Date (Publication)
2023-02-20
Identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01712
Custodian
  British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Originator
  NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre - Jordan, J., Stokes, C., Miles, B., Jamieson, S., Gudmundsson, G., & Jenkins, A.
High Cross, Madingley , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Maintenance and update frequency
unknown Unknown
Keywords
  • NDGO0001
NERC OAI Harvesting
  • NERC_DDC
GCMD Parameter Valids
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Glacier Mass Balance/Ice Sheet Mass Balance
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Ice Sheets
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Circulation > Water Masses
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Water Temperature
BAS Free-text keywords
  • East Antarctica
  • circumpolar deep water
  • ice sheet
  • mass balance
  • numerical simulations
Use limitation
Data supplied under Open Government Licence v3.0 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.
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Other constraints
Data supplied under Open Government Licence v3.0 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
  • Oceans
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Begin date
2020-01-01
End date
2220-01-01
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
Distributor
  Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
Protocol
http
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Function
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dataset Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification
INSPIRE / Conformity_001

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Explanation
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No
Statement
To account for model bias a baseline run with constant forcing was performed. To account for errors in the ocean and atmospheric forcing applied two further runs were performed for each emission scenario, a "positive bias" mass balance (high precipitation, low ocean melting) and "negative bias" mass balance (low precipitation, high ocean melting) to capture the envelope of expected results.
File identifier
GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01712 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2023-02-20
Metadata standard name
NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
Dataset URI
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01712
 
 

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