RAPID - Round 1 - The role of the cryosphere on modulating the thermohaline circulation of the North Atlantic Project

Introduction

This project will investigate the role that land ice and, in particular the Greenland ice sheet, and sea ice play on modulating the present day and future thermohaline circulation in the Atlantic under a warming climate. This will be achieved by coupling a suite of sub-models that define the mass balance and behaviour of land and sea ice in the Arctic into a fast Earth model of Intermediate Complexity and a medium resolution fully coupled Atmosphere-Ocean GCM based on HadCM3. The coupled ice-ocean-atmosphere models will be used to investigate, in detail, the interaction of the cryosphere with the rest of the climate system, with particular emphasis on the thermohaline circulation.

Project Duration: 4 Aug 2003 - 3 Feb 2007

This project is funded by NERC - Grant Ref. NER/T/S/2002/00462 - through the RAPID Climate Change NERC directed mode programme.

Availability of data

This project consists of a series of model experiments, using HadCM3, FAMOUS and EMIC, which incorporate an ice model. It will result in several runs that are of interest to the RAPID community.

Access to data and information

Data and software supplied from this project to the BADC will be stored in the BADC RAPID archive.

Access to the archive is currently restricted to participants to this particular project. If you are a programme participant and would like to access this RAPID project data, then please apply for access^* to the RAPID data.

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This RAPID project is led by Prof Jonathan Bamber of the University of Bristol, with co-investigators at the University of Bristol, the University of Southampton and the Scottish Crop Research Institute.

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