| MOCA is an INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research)
sponsored project examining meltwater/iceberg mediated ice and climate
interactions. It brings together an international network of
quaternary field specialists, paleoceanographers, and modelers. The
principal objective of MOCA is to establish a constrained regional
meltwater and iceberg discharge chronology for the northern hemisphere
during the last deglaciation with well-defined error bars. The
consequent objective is to establish a good conceptual understanding
of the interactions between the cryosphere, ocean, and atmosphere
associated with this chronology. This paper summarizes the initial
constraint data sets, data calibrated glacial systems modeling that
integrates observations with physics to generate probability
distributions for the deglacial chronologies, and the interim results
of this calibration.
Further information on the project is available from the MOCA website:
http://www.physics.mun.ca/~lev/MOCA.html |