Over the two years of the project, we have made significant progress toward the initial objectives of the project. We have:
a) developed a fully-coupled ice-ocean model able to resolve the full ocean dynamics and deformation of the ice-ocean interface,
b) run a number of simulations of boundary layer flows adjacent to an ice layer,
c) gained new insights into the physical processes controlling melting and the generation of topography at the ice-ocean interface,
d) investigated in details the interactions between the Antarctic Ice Sheet and subglacial lakes, which is a key example of ice-water interactions, in order to further shed light on the importance of turbulence on the ice-water boundary layer dynamics and on the relationship between the heat flux at the ice base, the mean water temperature and the turbulence intensity.
We have shared our results with the broad scientific community. I have submitted one paper on a),b),c) and two papers on d) as 1st author to peer-reviewed journals (total of 3 papers submitted as 1st author), and two papers on a),b),c) as co-author to peer-reviewed journals (total of 2 papers submitted as co-author). I have also communicated the project results at invited seminars (UC Berkeley, Feb 2020; LPG Nantes, Dec 2019; LEGI Grenoble, Oct 2019; Ladhyx Palaiseau, Mar 2019; U of Oxford, Mar 2019; U of Leeds, Feb 2019; U of Cambridge, Oct 2018) and conferences (2 presentations at EGU 2020; Ocean Sciences 2020; FRISP 2019; APS DFD 2018). I have also contributed to disseminating polar science to children in a local school during one science activity organised by the British Antarctic Survey.
Importantly, the simulations of the project were made possible thanks to a supercomputer allocation provided by PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe. We acknowledge PRACE for awarding us access to Marconi at CINECA, Italy.
