Revision as of 11:19, 5 September 2013

Linking Erosional and Climatic Processes in Regions of Active Mountain Building

Project description

The research group plans to couple three models, CHILD, TopoFlow and WRF, in order to demonstrate and study the effects and feedbacks between climate and topography in regions of active mountain building. The coupled models will provide a high resolution scope on how climate plays a fundamental role in landscape evolution and how changes in elevations of an orogeny, through erosion and tectonics, provides feedback to the regional climate. The goal is a model of climate-topography interactions. We plan to test the role of different climate histories and regimes on landscape morphology by comparing topographies that evolve at different latitudes and under different orbital characteristics.

Objectives

• Successfully model and represent interactions between topography and climate. • Define feedbacks associated with the above interactions. • Differentiate interactions between climate and topography with respect to differing climate regimes. • Differentiate interactions between climate and topography through time.

Time-line

September 2013 through May 2016

Models in use

• CHILD • TopoFlow • WRF

Results

N/A

Users

Clay Sorensen Brian Yanites

Funding

NSF grant number 1249788

Publications and presentations

None

Links

N/A

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