PRECISE - PREdiction of Ice Sheets on Earth
Novo Nordisk Foundation
University of Copenhagen
Sea level rise is one of the most dangerous risks of global warming, threatening coastal communities across the world and potentially flooding hundreds of millions of people annually by the year 2100. Projections of sea level rise are uncertain with a metre-scale uncertainty in the projections from the International Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), and not including additional uncertainties related to ice sheet-instability processes. This uncertainty presents a major challenge for planning adaptation strategies and assessing mitigation solutions. PRECISE will develop current ice flow models used for projections to enable them to react to extreme weather and more melting in a future warmer climate. New descriptions of crevasses and porous ice will be used, and climate feedbacks will be estimated using AI and new data. The goal is to provide robust projections of sea level rise for IPCC assessments with quantified uncertainties and to communicate the results to relevant stakeholders.
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