Principal Investigator of Planned Research
Research Outline
There is growing concern of the rapid loss of Antarctic ice mass due to future global warming. A large-scale ice mass loss could not only cause sea level rise, but could also act as the initiator of cascading climate change involving various climate tipping elements. Thus, improving the accuracy of Antarctic change projections in future is an important subject. A better understanding of Antarctic and Southern Ocean variability during past warm periods, which are often considered as analogues for the near future climate, provides critical insights into possible future climate crises. Currently, marine ice sheet instability and marine ice cliff instability have been proposed as key processes that lead to large-scale ice mass loss. These key processes are then considered to be driven by the interaction between the ice sheet-atmospheric-oceanic interaction.
Keywords
Super interglacial, Holocene, marine sediment, Southern Ocean, Antarctic ice mass
