GlobalMass was well represented at the EGU General Assembly 2018, held last week in Vienna, Austria. Jonathan Bamber, Stephen Chuter and Stefan Hofer all attended in person, and results from the project were presented in one talk and two posters.… Continue reading
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Zhe Sha has just returned from the Bayes Comp 2018 conference in Barcelona, Spain, where she presented a poster on our recent work using a Bayesian framework to update a forward model of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA): “Bayesian model-data … Continue reading
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We are delighted to welcome two new additions to the GlobalMass team, Dr Sam Royston and Dr Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma.
Sam joins us from the University of Tasmania in Australia where she was a Research Fellow in coastal altimetry, investigating … Continue reading
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Progress over the last few months has focussed on three main areas:
(1) Steric sea level change
In what is the first real test of the BHM framework on a global scale, we have been using the framework to … Continue reading
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Last Friday, Zhe Sha gave a talk on Bayesian Hierarchical modelling for large-scale geophysical inverse problems at one of the regular Statistics seminars organised by the University of Bristol’s Institute for Statistical Science.
In her talk, Zhe explained how … Continue reading
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Last week saw over 20,000 scientists from around the world gather in New Orleans for the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. GlobalMass was represented in person by Jonathan Bamber, and results from our work were presented in two … Continue reading
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It’s been a couple of months since the last project update. In that time, we have been making progress in four main areas:
(1) Developing the statistical framework
The main purpose of our early experiments was to test and improve … Continue reading
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A new PhD opportunity is available, allied to the GlobalMass project, with the aim of producing a consistent, rigorous sea level record for the 20th and first two decades of the 21st century from a combination of tide gauge data, … Continue reading
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Last week Stephen Chuter gave a talk at the 2017 West Antarctica Ice Sheet (WAIS) workshop in Seattle, USA. His presentation (‘Mass budget reassessment of the Abbot and Getz sectors of West Antarctica‘) described how mass balance estimates … Continue reading
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We have been working on some diverse aspects of the project over the summer.
(1) Understanding optimum mesh size
Our early experiments suggested that the mesh size used for the global grid can introduce artefacts or errors into the results, … Continue reading
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