iGlass (Using Interglacials to assess future sea level rise scenarios): The NERC funded iGlass consortium aims to better understand the processes of ice-sheet and sea-level response to climatic forcing, using data from the recent geological past. Existing sea-level rise projections do not account for the longer-term changes in global land-based ice volume. Although this ice-sheet contribution to sea-level change develops over decades to centuries, its long-term impact is large and virtually irreversible. It therefore dominates the uncertainty in future sea-level projections. The aim of the project is to quantify sea-level variation during interglacial periods (warm periods in between ice ages) and quantify relationships between global ice volume and climatological control processes.
University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre Southampton
Professor Ivan Haigh 