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Dr Ruud Hurkmans
Research Collaborator
Dr Ruud Hurkmans
Dr Ruud Hurkmans
MSc, MSc, PhD(Wageningen)
Research Collaborator
Area of research
Remote sensing of the mass balance of ice sheets
Office G1 (Priestley Room), 12 Berkeley Square
University Road,
Clifton,
Bristol
BS8 1SS
(See a map)
Tel. +44 (0) 117 33 14139
ruud.hurkmans@
bristol.ac.uk
Research summary
In my research I am investigating methods to estimate the mass balance of ice sheets (Greenland and Antarctica) from remote sensing data. Three methods can be distinguished to that: 1) mass budget (net snow accumulation minus ice flux over the grounding line), 2) gravimetry (GRACE satellites), 3) elevation changes from altimetry. The overall goal is to combine all these estimates to obtain consistent mass changes with robust error estimates. At the moment I focus on method (3): To convert elevation changes from radar and laser altimeters into mass change, they need to be interpolated. In areas where the largest changes ...
Biography
I started my project in Bristol in March 2010, after having done my PhD at the Hydrology & Quantitative Water Management group of Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands.
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