Tehdyt toimenpiteet
Ice2sea: Sea-level research programme
01.02.2010
Ice2sea is a collaborative research programme involving partners from 13 countries. The project focuses specifically on the contribution to sea-level rise that will arise from loss of continental glaciers and ice sheets and which give rise to largest part of the uncertainty in the projections. The Finnish participant of ice2sea programme is CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd.
Sea-level rise affects significantly to Europe as fifteen EU countries have substantial coastlines that will be affected by global sea-level rise. In many of these coastal areas, future sea-level rise will increase rates of coastal erosion, accelerate the destruction of natural sea defences and increase the risk of coastal flooding. Ice2sea has twin goals of improving the science behind sea-level predictions based on the most up-to-date climate projections. Multiphysical simulation software, ELMER developed by CSC is used in the project .
The participants are from Belgium, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Switzerland and United Kingdom. The programme is part of the European Union Framework 7 Programme and receives funding from the European Comission and from the many national agencies funding the institutional partners. The programme will run for four years (2009-2013) with a schedule designed to provide input to the next intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment of climate change and its impacts.
Further information: www.ice2sea.eu
Elmer
Elmer is a finite element software package for the solution of partial differential equations developed by CSC. Elmer development was started 1995 in collaboration with Finnish Universities, research institutes and industry.
Elmer can deal with a great number of different equations, which may be coupled in a generic manner making Elmer a versatile tool for multiphysics simulations. As a open source software, Elmer also gives the user the means to modify the existing solution procedures and to develop new solvers for equations of interest to the user.
Elmer includes physical models of fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, electromagnetics, heat transfer and acoustics, for example. These are described by partial differential equations which Elmer solves by the Finite Element Method (FEM).
CSC
CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd. is a non-profit limited company administered by the Ministry of Education. Having core competences in modeling, computing and information services, CSC provides versatile IT services, support and resources for academia, research institutes, and companies. The Funet communication links provide research workers with Finland's widest selection of scientific software and databases and Finland's most powerful supercomputers.
