Rignot Research Group

2011-2014: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation - Patagonia and West Greenland

This project, generously funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, will deploy state-of-the-art airborne gravity, airborne ground penetrating radar and laser profiling technologies mounted on helicopters to provide, for the first time, high resolution, high precision mapping of glacier thickness and coastal sea floor depth in and near the Patagonian Ice Fields of Chile and in the glacial fjords of West Greenland. Partners in the three-year project will be Centro de Estudios Cientificos in Chile and Sander Geophysics in Canada. The news release on the award can be found here.

2011-2014: NASA Cryosphere Proposal to map ice thickness using IceBridge data combined with InSAR data

2011-2014: ECCO3 Ocean Modeling in collaboration with JPL

Under construction ...

Full Title: Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase III (ECCO3): Improved Representation of Ocean-Ice Interactions in Earth System Models

2011-2013: NSF EAger proposal on the Ice Sheet System Model

ISSM is the result of a collaboration between the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and University of California at Irvine. Its purpose is to tackle the challenge of modeling the evolution of the polar ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica. ISSM is funded by the NASA Cryosphere and MAP (Modeling Analysis and Prediction) programs, JPL R&TD (Research, Technology and Developmnt) and NSF.

For more details, go to http://issm.jpl.nasa.gov/

NEWS:

December 2011: ISSM open-source release.
ISSM is now officially released. See the ISSM site for more details.

2007-2014: NASA MEaSUREs Project: Ice velocity mapping of Antarctica

Working with spaceborne SAR data from various international space agencies we are producing a high-resolution digital map of ice velocity of the Antarctic ice sheet. The product is available to the scientific community via the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
This project is funded through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's MEaSUREs program.

NEWS:

December 2011: Our data products are now available via NSIDC.

August 2011: Results published in Science Direct (August 18, 2011, DOI 10.1126/science.1208336)

2008-2013 A three-dimensional, high-resolution flow model of the Greenland ice sheet: validation and prediction

2007-2009: Warm Ice Sounding Explorer (WISE)

JPL in collaboration with the University of Iowa and UCI owns and operates an airborne GPR, the Warm Ice Sounding Explorer (2 MHz).
Capable of being operated on different types of aircraft, WISE is contributing in the collection of ice thickness data on glaciers and ice fields around the world.

20xx-20xx: Subaqueous melting of Greenland Glaciers

In this project the mechanism of ocean impacts on subaqueous melting and glacier acceleration on Greenland tidewater glaciers are being studied using numerical models, remote sensing data, and field measurements.

20xx-20xx: Interdisciplinary Science on Sea Level Fingerprints from Ice Sheets

Under construction ...

2007-2012: Stability of Larsen C Ice Shelf in a Warming Climate

Under construction ... (NSF, NASA)

2010-2013: IceBridge Science Team - A Glacier dynamics and ice-ocean interactions perspective for IceBridge science

Under construction ...

2010-2013: IceBridge Alaska

Under construction...

2011-2014: Regional pattern of sea level change from the melting of the Greenland, Antarctic and Patagonia ice sheets derived from combined InSAR ice motion, reconstructed surface mass balance and GRACE time-variable gravity

Past Projects:

2007-2011: HF radar sounding of glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica for force and mass balance calculations
                 Funding Source: NASA
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2008-2011: Stability of Larsen C Ice Shelf in a Warming Climate
                 Funding Source: NSF
                 Project Partners: XX