{"id":9808,"date":"2026-08-20T18:38:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/ground_post\/issm-collaborations-nasa-science\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T18:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:38:52","slug":"issm-collaborations-nasa-science","status":"publish","type":"ground_post","link":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/ground_post\/issm-collaborations-nasa-science\/","title":{"rendered":"ISSM Collaborations &#8211; NASA Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"post-1209665\">\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"entry-content\">\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-module hds-module-full alignfull wp-block-nasa-blocks-secondary-navigation\">\n<div class=\"hds-secondary-navigation-wrapper z-top width-100 padding-0\">\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-secondary-navigation width-full border-bottom-1px text-center hds-color-mode-dark hds-module hds-module-full alignfull wp-block-nasa-blocks-hdsnav\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"hds-secondary-nav-mobile-button display-flex tablet:display-flex desktop:display-none width-full flex-align-center bg-carbon-90 border-color-carbon-80 color-spacesuit-white\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"hds-secondary-nav-track\"><span>Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model (ISSM)<\/span><default:svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 400 400\" viewbox=\"0 0 400 400\"><default:path d=\"m4.2 122.2 195.1 195.1 196.5-196.6-37.9-38-157.8 157.8-156.8-156.8z\"\/><\/default:svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"nasa-gb-align-full maxw-full width-full padding-0 hds-module hds-module-full alignfull wp-block-nasa-blocks-page-intro\">\n<div class=\"padding-0 bg-spacesuit-white wp-block-nasa-blocks-page-intro\">\n<div class=\"hds-page-intro hds-page-intro-banner width-full maxw-full padding-0 hds-cover-wrapper minh-tablet\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-background\"><img width=\"1239\" height=\"584\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/esd\/escience\/imvi\/issm\/main_bg.png?w=1239&amp;h=584&amp;fit=clip&amp;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"ISSM Homepage banner\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/esd\/escience\/imvi\/issm\/main_bg.png?w=1239&amp;h=584&amp;fit=crop&amp;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 1239w, https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/esd\/escience\/imvi\/issm\/main_bg.png?w=300&amp;h=141&amp;fit=crop&amp;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 300w, https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/esd\/escience\/imvi\/issm\/main_bg.png?w=768&amp;h=362&amp;fit=crop&amp;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 768w, https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/esd\/escience\/imvi\/issm\/main_bg.png?w=1024&amp;h=483&amp;fit=crop&amp;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 1024w, https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/esd\/escience\/imvi\/issm\/main_bg.png?w=400&amp;h=189&amp;fit=crop&amp;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 400w, https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/esd\/escience\/imvi\/issm\/main_bg.png?w=600&amp;h=283&amp;fit=crop&amp;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 600w, https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/esd\/escience\/imvi\/issm\/main_bg.png?w=900&amp;h=424&amp;fit=crop&amp;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 900w, https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/dynamicimage\/assets\/science\/esd\/escience\/imvi\/issm\/main_bg.png?w=1200&amp;h=566&amp;fit=crop&amp;crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1239px) 100vw, 1239px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<h2 id=\"uci-ice\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>UCI-Ice Sheet Modeling Group<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/icefuture.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ice Sheet Modeling Group<\/a>\u00a0at the University of California Irvine focuses on better understanding and explaining ongoing changes in the Cryosphere, or the frozen parts of the Earth, using numerical modeling. They are interested in understanding the interactions of ice and climate by combining state-of-the-art numerical modeling with remote sensing and in situ data. In particular, we are interested in determining how the ice sheet, ice caps and mountain glaciers will respond to climate change in the coming century.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"uci-rignot\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>UCI-Rignot Research Group<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The primary interest of\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/faculty.sites.uci.edu\/erignot\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eric Rignot&#8217;s research group\u00a0<\/a>at the University of California Irvine is to understand the interactions of ice and climate, in particular to determine how the ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland will respond to climate change in the coming century and how they will affect global sea level.<br \/>Their research combines satellite remote sensing techniques (imaging radar, laser altimetry, radio echo sounding) airborne geophysical surveys, field surveys (GPR, GPS) and numerical modeling (ice sheet motion and ocean circulation near glaciers).<br \/>The ISSM team uses data provided by the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/faculty.sites.uci.edu\/erignot\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rignot research group\u00a0<\/a>to improve ice sheet models, infer unknown parameters and validate model results.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"ecco2\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>ECCO2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/science.jpl.nasa.gov\/projects\/ECCO\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ECCO2<\/a>\u00a0(Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II) project goal is to increase understanding and predictive capability for the ocean&#8217;s role in future climate change scenarios.\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/science.jpl.nasa.gov\/projects\/ECCO\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ECCO2<\/a>\u00a0aims to produce increasingly accurate syntheses of all available global-scale ocean and sea-ice data at resolutions that start to resolve ocean eddies and other narrow current systems, which transport heat, carbon, and other properties within the ocean.<br \/>Our collaboration aims at better understanding the interactions between ocean and ice by coupling the ISSM and the ice shelf cavity model developed in the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/science.jpl.nasa.gov\/projects\/ECCO\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ECCO2<\/a>\u00a0project. We conduct sensitivity studies of the ice-ocean system and ice sheet evolution in a warmer climate; performing model projections of the Antarctic Ice Sheet in a warmer climate is the long term goal of this research.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"insa\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>INSA Toulouse<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are working with\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.math.univ-toulouse.fr\/~jmonnie\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jerome Monnier<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0INSA Toulouse\u00a0on the elaboration of new numerical models, numerical schemes and model validation methods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CL#26-2815<\/p>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-topic-cards nasa-gb-align-full maxw-full width-full padding-y-6 padding-x-3 color-mode-dark hds-module hds-module-full alignfull wp-block-nasa-blocks-topic-cards\">\n<div class=\"grid-container grid-container-block-lg padding-x-0\">\n<div class=\"grid-row flex-align-center margin-bottom-3\">\n<div class=\"desktop:grid-col-8 margin-bottom-2 desktop:margin-bottom-0\">\n<p>Keep Exploring<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading-36 line-height-sm\">Discover More Topics From NASA<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/earth-science\/imvi\/issm\/collaborations\/?rand=6382\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model (ISSM) UCI-Ice Sheet Modeling Group The\u00a0Ice Sheet Modeling Group\u00a0at the University of California Irvine focuses on better understanding and explaining ongoing changes in the Cryosphere, or the frozen parts of the Earth, using numerical modeling. 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