Global ice sheet modeling

The University of Maine conducted this study for Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) as part of a global climate modeling task for site characterization of the potential nuclear waste respository site at Yucca Mountain, NV. The purpose of the study was to develop a global ice sheet dynamics model tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hughes, T.J., Fastook, J.L.
Other Authors: United States. Department of Energy.
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: Pacific Northwest Laboratory 1994
Subjects:
Environmental Effects
Radioactive Waste Disposal
05 Nuclear Fuels
Yucca Mountain Project
99 Mathematics
Computers
Information Science
Management
Law
Miscellaneous
Climatic Change
Site Characterization
Structural Models
Yucca Mountain
54 Environmental Sciences
Glaciers
Dynamics
Climate Models
Pacific
Ice Sheet
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2172/145218
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc618789/
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Summary:The University of Maine conducted this study for Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) as part of a global climate modeling task for site characterization of the potential nuclear waste respository site at Yucca Mountain, NV. The purpose of the study was to develop a global ice sheet dynamics model that will forecast the three-dimensional configuration of global ice sheets for specific climate change scenarios. The objective of the third (final) year of the work was to produce ice sheet data for glaciation scenarios covering the next 100,000 years. This was accomplished using both the map-plane and flowband solutions of our time-dependent, finite-element gridpoint model. The theory and equations used to develop the ice sheet models are presented. Three future scenarios were simulated by the model and results are discussed.

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