BSc, MSc(Galway), PhD(Bristol)
Research Assistant
Office: F1, 12 Berkeley Square
Tel: +44 (0)117 331 4151
Fax: +44 (0)117 9287878
Email: sarah.shannon@bristol.ac.uk
I am interested in understanding climate processes and their impacts though the use of numerical models. My research focuses on modelling:
I am currently working with the ice2sea project. This is an EU project which aims to provide a range of estimates for sea level rise for the next 200 years. My role in this project is to use the GLIMMER community ice sheet model to predict future changes in the Antarctic ice sheet. This work will contribute to an ice sheet model inter-comparison. The inter-comparison will collate the results of similar modelling studies on Antarctica and Greenland by groups within ice2sea, to provide a range of estimates for sea level rise.
I carried out my PhD with the GREENCYCLES Marie Curie Research Training Network. This involved developing a new dust cycle model that included a dynamic vegetation component. I used the LPJ dynamic vegetation model to calculate time evolving dust source areas and linked this to a dust emission model and the TOMCAT chemical transport model. I used the model to test if vegetation changes could explain decadal variability in the dust cycle.