Role of the ice sheet dynamics during the past climatic changes of the last glaciation.
This thesis investigates the dynamics of the ice sheets that appeared in the northern hemisphere during the last glacial periods. Starting with the Antarctic ice sheet model GRISLI, developed at the LGGE, improvements of the physics are made in oder to alppy the model to the northern hemisphere. A d...
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Format: | Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis |
Language: | French |
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HAL CCSD
2006
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Online Access: | https://theses.hal.science/tel-00310259 https://theses.hal.science/tel-00310259/document https://theses.hal.science/tel-00310259/file/these_peyaud_2006.pdf |
Summary: | This thesis investigates the dynamics of the ice sheets that appeared in the northern hemisphere during the last glacial periods. Starting with the Antarctic ice sheet model GRISLI, developed at the LGGE, improvements of the physics are made in oder to alppy the model to the northern hemisphere. A determination of a realistic ice shelf front is made and associated boundary condition were developed at the front of the ice shelves. A basal hydrology scheme is implemented and a treshold based on basal water pression allows a more realistic ice streams localisation. This new ice sheet model is applied to the northern hemisphere to reconstruct the ice sheets evelolution during the last glacial period and compare the relative influence of surface mass balance and ice dynamics. Eurasian ice sheet around the 90,000 years (BP) was investigated in more details to study the impact of ice dammed lakes and the role of the ice shelves during the inception and the deacy of a marine ice sheet in Barents and Kara Seas Cette thèse concerne la modélisation des calottes de glace qui ont couvert l'hémisphère nord durant les dernières périodes glaciaires. Des améliorations de la physique ont été effectéees sur le modèle de calotte de glace Antarctique du LGGE, nommé GRISLI, afin de rendre ce modèle portable sur l'hémisphère nord. Une nouvelle méthode pour déterminer la position du front des ice shelves (plates-formes de glace flottante) a été mise au point, des conditions aux limites spécifiques au front des ice shelves ont été ajoutées. Un nouveau schéma pour le drainage de l'eau sous-glaciaire et un critère basé sur la pression de l'eau sous-glaciaire ont permis de localiser les ice streams (ou fleuves de glace) de façon bien plus réaliste qu'auparavant. Ce nouveau modèle est appliqué aux calottes de l'hémisphère nord et simule leur évolution lors du dernier cycle glaciaire-interglaciaire en comparant l'impact relatif du bilan de masse en surface et de la dynamique. L'évolution de la calotte eurasienne aurout de l'évènement à 90 ... |
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