CryoDyn - Glaciers and ice sheets dynamics

Members — Tools and data — Projects and working groups — Scientific Publications

Team coordinated by Fabien Gillet-Chaulet.

The evolution of glaciers and polar ice sheets, in a changing climate, is associated with important societal issues in terms of sea level rise, water resources and natural risks. The contribution of glacial dynamics to current and future changes is a major source of uncertainty, partly because a number of processes are poorly constrained and therefore poorly represented in models, and partly because exchanges between the Cryosphere and the rest of the climate system are complex.

The overall objective of the CryoDyn team is to better understand and describe the processes that control ice dynamics in order to better characterize and predict the evolution of glaciers and polar ice sheets. The research focus of the CryoDyn team follows two main axes that are described below.