Ice2Ice Greenland Surface Mass Balance Workshop
23rd -24th November 2017
Aims:
Workshop on Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance calculations and observations with a focus on ice sheet modelling and climate and ice core interpretation within ice2ice. We will compare SMB produced using different models and forced with C-Earth, NorESM, HIRHAM, WRF etc to examine the sensitivity of SMB to different methods of calculation and to evaluate what implications these have for ice sheet dynamics and the interaction between ice sheet and climate in models.
Session suggestions:
- SMB schemes: PDD, SEB, intermediate complexity SEB, problems with reconstructing SMB for long palaeoclimate runs
- Observations of Greenland SMB: Promice/Museum invited speaker, long-term records and reconstructions of SMB in Greenland
- Sensitivity analysis of SMB formulations: Topography, GCM/RCM, Albedo, SST + sea ice
- Implications of SMB for glacier dynamics and model inversion. Andreas (+ others) on ice sheet modelling
- CISSEMBEL introduction: Christian Rodehacke to present model, Ruth to present Devon Ice Cap work, Christian/Shuting on Greenland.
Preliminary Programme:
Thursday 23rd November
8:30 am coffee
9am -10.30am session 1 presentations
10:30 -10.45am break
10:45 – 12am Discussion session 1
12-1pm Lunch at DMI
1-3pm session 2
3 – 3.30 pm break
3.30-4.30pm Discussion session 2
Workshop Dinner 19:30
Friday 24th November
8:30 am coffee
9am -10.30am session 3 presentations
10:30 -10.45am break
10:45 – 12am Discussion session 3
12-1pm Lunch at DMI
1-2pm session 4
2 – 3.30 pm Discussion session 2 and wrap-up
Outcomes:
Paper on Modelling Ice Sheet Surface Mass Balance in Palaeoclimate Simulations
Review of different methods used, analysis of model sensitivity and impacts on modelled SMB and possible implications for ice sheet dynamics (not just a review paper!)
Open to other suggestions!
Please confirm your attendance to Ruth Mottram (rum@dmi.dk ) and/or Andreas Plach (andreas.plach@uib.no )
Please confirm attendance and submit any proposed talk title and ideally abstract by 20/11/2017.
Francesco Muschitiello
(Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University)
Title: “Deep-water circulation leads North Atlantic climate during the last deglaciation”.
Abstract: Constraining the response time of the climate system to changes in Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is fundamental to improve climate predictability. Here we present a precise synchronization of terrestrial, marine and ice-core records that reveals for the first time the ocean-atmosphere lead-lag nature during rapid North Atlantic climate transitions of the last deglaciation. Using a continuous record of deep water ventilation from the Nordic Seas, we identify a systematic ~250-year lead of deep-water export on abrupt climate changes recorded in Greenland ice cores –in and out of the Younger Dyas stadial (YD)– in response to gradual changes in freshwater forcing. Supported by transient climate model simulations, our results also point at a delayed response of atmospheric CO2 rise to AMOC slowdown at the onset of the YD. We conclude that variations in North Atlantic deep-water formation are precursors to large-scale climate and pCO2 changes, which highlights the need for improved long-term future AMOC projections.
DMI/NBI meeting at CIC
AGENDA:
-Information on ice2ice all staff (helle)-10 min
-update from SMB workshop (Ruth and Andreas)-20 min
-update on TAC work in Bremerhaven (Bo and Sindhu)-20 min
-Peter: “Inflated uncertainty in multi-model based regional climate projections” (paper accepteret I GRL)- 20 min
-Jens: “Confidence in regional climate projections?”- 20 min
-Publications – if you have new publications please prepare a slide (all)
-Misc
Contact Helle if you have more items for the agenda
PI meeting in Bergen
Ph.d.-kandidat Henning Martin Åkesson vil holde følgende prøveforelesning over oppgitt emne for ph.d.-graden:
Tittel: «Past, present and future sea-level changes in the context of regional and global ice dynamics»
Tid: 5. desember, kl. 14.15
Sted: Auditorium 2, underetasjen, Realfagbygget, Allégaten 41
Komité:
Professor Ulysses Ninnemann, GEO
Professor Haflidi Haflidasson, GEO
Forsker, Dr. Andreas Born, GEO
Adgang for interesserte tilhørere.
VELKOMMEN!
Talk by Henrik Sadatzki @CIC- RF 235
Northern sea ice variability during Dansgaard-Oeschger climate cycles
Changes in sea ice cover in the Nordic Seas likely played a crucial role in amplifying ocean circulation and climate changes of the Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) cycles during the last glacial. We investigate the role of sea ice for abrupt Greenland climate changes, using a high-resolution sea ice record from Norwegian Sea core MD99-2284 covering four D-O cycles at 32–40 ka. The sea ice reconstruction is based on abundances of the sea ice diatom biomarker IP25 and the open-water phytoplankton biomarker dinosterol, as well as on semi-quantitative phytoplankton-IP25 (PIP25) sea ice estimates. Our biomarker records indicate that the Norwegian Sea was characterized by a near-perennial sea ice cover during cold stadials and enhanced open-ocean conditions during warmer interstadials. Moreover, we find that initiation of sea ice retreat systematically preceded the onset of major deep-water formation in the Nordic Seas and probably the abrupt D-O warming in Greenland. We thus conclude that the glacial sea ice variability acted as precursor and feedback mechanism for abrupt ocean circulation and Greenland climate change during D-O cycles.
Ice2ice Bergen group meeting
Please sign up here (before lunch, Tuesday 12.12.)
Date and Time; 14.12, 09-11.
(Team Jansen meeting back-to-back, 11-12.)
Agenda
* Info from PI meeting @Bergen and info Ice2ice all-staff 2018
* Talk by Philipp Anhaus (student of Lars Henrik), presenting his Master “Circulation and Ocean Driven Glacial Melting in a Greenland Fjord”
*AOB
Venue: East wing, room 209.
KUNNGJØRING – MIDTVEISPRESENTASJON
Ph.d.-kandidat Lisa Griem vil avholde midtveispresentasjon av sitt ph.d.- prosjekt.
Tittel: “Ocean circulation changes off southern Greenland during the abrupt climate events of mid-to-late MIS 3”
Veiledningskomité:
Professor Eystein Jansen – GEO (hovedveileder)
Dr. Trond Martin Dokken – Uni Research Climate
Forsker Sarah Miche Patricia Berben – GEO
Midtveispresentasjon
Tid: Mandag 8. januar, klokken 09.15
Sted: Ph.d.-rommet, Realfagbygget
Komité for midtveisevaluering:
Professor Atle Nesje – GEO (leder)
Professor Ulysses Ninnemann – GEO
Førsteamanuensis Gunnar Sælen – GEO
ice2ice DMI/NBI meeting @DMI
Agenda:
-all staff
-Eliza new tephra papers
-Ida
-Martin O
If you have items for the agenda, please let Helle know.
Henning’s PhD defense @Bergen
Title of the Thesis
” Deglaciation of the Norwegian fjords”
Opponent:
Professor, Andreas Vieli, University of Zurich, Sveits,
Opponent:
Professor, Chris Stokes, Durham University, Storbritannia
Øvrig medlem i komiteen:
Professor, dr. scient. Atle Nesje, Institutt for geovitenskap, Universitetet i Bergen
Leder av disputasen:
Førsteamanuensis Cédric Hamelin, Universitetet i Bergen
The Ice2Ice PhD bootcamp 2018 is held in Rosendal, Norway, at the Folgefonn Centre from Monday January 22nd to Friday February 26th. We will stay at the Rosendal Tourist Hotel which is very close by to the centre. We defined four groups who will visit different target audiences on day one like school kids of different age (group 1 and 2), tour companies (group 3) and the local media (group 4). The bootcamp week gives each of the four groups the opportunity to find out what the different audiences would like to know about climate science and then test if we are able to communicate the outcome to the audiences. This test will take place at the Folgefonn Centre. Each audience and locals will be invited to listen to our talks and evaluate our communication skills we hopefully improved during the week with the help of Mathew Reeve and Ellen Viste who will be our mentors.
The group structure is as follows:
Group 1:
Sunniva and Karita
Group 2:
Ida, Anais and Eva
Group 3:
Silje and Jonathan
Group 4:
Lisa and Andreas
The program for the week can be found here (pdf). The program includes a tour through the Folgefonn Centre, the visit of the audiences, presentations by the mentors, group work, evening talks and discussions and a social activity on the Wednesday.
We will get to Rosendal on the Monday by ferry that departures from Bergen Torget at central station 08.50am. The boat ride takes approximately 1.5 hours. The trip back to Bergen on the Friday is also by boat and leaves Rosendal at 06.50am. Ferry tickets for the bootcamp participants have been bought by the organisers and will be handed out upon departure. Please show up at the ferry terminal in time as the next ferry to Rosendal leaves in the late afternoon. As the ferry leaves early Monday morning we ask the Copenhagen-based participants to arrive no later than the day before..
The hostel provides bed linen and towels, but please remember to bring warm clothes and hiking boots as the social activity is taking place outdoors.
We look forward to a productive bootcamp 2018!
Best wishes,
Silje, Ida and Lisa
All staff meeting
contact Hellek@fys.ku.dk
Download the full invitation here; Ice2ice statistics course for PhDs
Week 8, 19-23 February 2018@ Copenhagen, DK
venue TBD
Organisers:
Martin Miles, Uni Research, Bergen
Ida Margrethe Ringgaard, University of Copenhagen / Danish Meteorological Institute
Lecturers:
Martin Miles, Uni Research, Bergen
Francesco Muschitiello, Uni Research, Bergen
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“Statistics is a fascinating subject – unfortunately, its teaching is often excruciatingly dull.”– Foreword in a classic statistics textbook.
The ice2ice statistics workshop aims – in contrast – to be an interesting, illustrative and interactive environment, in which we present and explore the use of statistics and other quantitative methods in climate, paleoclimate, paleoceanography and other geosciences.
We will have a few formal lectures, complemented by lots of informal learning and interactive exchanges between lecturers and participants, and between participants. We will work hands-on in small groups and individually on some example data and our own data sets (paleo proxy, observations and/or model data), trying out different methods on the data sets. We will use “R”, a free and comprehensive software environment for statistical computing and graphics: https://www.r-project.org/
Lectures will cover introductory to advanced concepts and methods, adapted to the interests of the participants. Preliminary topics include:
- Inferential statistics I and II: Theory and methods of univariate and multivariate statistics, including significance and resampling statistics, e.g., bootstrapping and Monte Carlo simulation methods
- Time series analysis: time-, frequency- and time-frequency domain (e.g., wavelets)
- Spatial analysis: geostatistics and more, including spatial autocorrelation and its impacts
The workshop is intended primarily for ice2ice PhD students, and will span 3 or 4 days during week 8 (19-23 February), including a social evening of course. Participation by others from ice2ice is also welcome: Remember you can always learn more statistics!
Please send an email to express your interest: martin.miles@uni.no or iri@dmi.dk. Please include any relevant comments (personal goals for the workshop, special topics of interest, partial attendance, etc.).