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SUMMARY:Climate and mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Michiel van den Broeke\, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric 
 Research (IMAU)\, Utrecht University\, Utrecht (NL) is professor of Polar 
 Meteorology at Utrecht University. My main research interest at present is
  to understand the past\, present and future climate and mass balance of t
 he large ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica. I perform my research at 
 the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU) in the Ic
 e and Climate research group. Our group combines experimental fieldwork (i
 n situ meteorological experiments\, automatic weather stations and surface
  mass balance observations) with regional climate models\, the latter in c
 lose collaboration with the research department of the Royal Netherlands M
 eteorological Institute (KNMI).\nAbstract:\nFor decades\, the great ice sh
 eets of Greenland and Antarctica\, together containing sufficient water to
  raise global sea level by more than 60 m\, were thought to react only slo
 wly to changes in climate. But this view has changed dramatically. This ta
 lk gives an update on our knowledge of the mass balance of these two ice s
 heets\, and what is expected for the near future. Special attention will b
 e paid to observational and modelling techniques to pin down the climate a
 nd melt rate of the large ice sheets\, using automatic weather stations\, 
 remote sensing techniques and regional climate models.
LOCATION:GR A3 32 http://plan.epfl.ch/?room=GR%20A3%2032
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