Seminar by Louise Schmidt.
"Simulating the mass balance of Vatnajökull ice cap"
Seminar outline:
In this seminar, I will briefly talk about the results of my PhD work at University of Iceland. Like most ice caps and glaciers worldwide, Icelandic glaciers are retreating in a warming climate. The aim of my PhD was to improve simulations of the near-past and future evolution of Vatnajökull ice cap, the largest ice cap in Iceland, and investigate the sensitivity of ablation to albedo and spring snow cover. First, the snow-pack model from HIRHAM5 was improved to better simulate the mass balance of Icelandic glaciers and the results were evaluated against AWS and mass balance measurements. The snow-pack model was then forced by a range of different regional climate models (HARMONIE-AROME and CORDEX) to investigate runoff sensitivity and conduct future projections. Finally, the simulations were used force the flow model PISM in order to include glacier dynamics.
Louise Schmidt is a Nansen Legacy Postdoc at the GeoHyd section.
About the seminar:
This seminar is offered by the Section for Geography and Hydrology at the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo. The seminar is announced as a lunch seminar so bring your lunch if you want to.
Everyone is welcome, and especially students.
The lunch seminar team.