IMCOAST
Impact of climate induced glacier melt on marine coastal systems in the West Antarctic Peninsula region
- Project management in Bonn
Prof. Dr. Gunter Menz
- Project aim
Glacier mass balance measurements on KGI
In the context of the ESF
IMCOAST project we intend to start an extensive field programme on
Potter Glacier in addition to previous observations on Bellingshausen
Dome and the main ice cap of King George Island. The observations on
Potter glacier shall be run over three years and comprise the
installation of an automatic weather station (AWS) including direct
measurements of surface energy fluxes on the glacier. Additionally snow
courses and mass balance stakes will be placed on the glacier. The data
from this instrumentation will form the base for point and spatially
distributed melt and glacier surface mass balance modelling. The snow
courses and modelling activities shall also cover Potter Peninsula in
order to link them to the hydrological measurements within IMCOAST.
- Run time
April 2010 - April 2013
- Study area
King George Island, Potter Glacier
Western Antarctic Peninsula
- Staff
Ulrike Falk (Prinicpal researcher)
Hilke Gieseke (Student assistant)
Franziska Kotzur (Student assistant)
Matthias Braun (project coordinator)
Gunter Menz (project coordinator)- Cooperation partners
Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
- Funding agencies
European Science Foundation (ESF)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
AZ 03F0617B, ERANET Europolar
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