William Richard Peltier

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William Richard Peltier (* 1943 ) is a Canadian geophysicist who is a professor at the University of Toronto and who is particularly concerned with climate change in the last ice age.

Peltier studied physics at the University of British Columbia with a bachelor's degree in 1967 and at the University of Toronto with a master's degree in 1969 and a doctorate in 1971. He was then a lecturer there , from 1974 associate professor and from 1979 professor. There he heads the Center for Global Change Science. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo .

Since the early 1990s, he has been developing models for global sea level change from melting ice caps, first ICE-3G, then ICE 4G and ICE-5G. In addition, he deals with geophysical hydrodynamics in the earth's atmosphere and oceans as well as in the earth's mantle (mantle convection).

From 2002 to 2005 he was visiting professor at the Institut du Physique de Globe at the University of Paris VII . In 1987/88 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Bullard Laboratories of Cambridge University and in 1978/79 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder.

In 2004 he received the Vetlesen Prize , in 2004 the J. Tuzo Wilson Medal of the Canadian Geophysical Union and the Bancroft Award of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2004 he became an external member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences . In 2008 he received the Milutin Milankovic Medal from the European Geosciences Union and in 2010 the Bower Award from the Franklin Institute.

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  1. ↑ AM Tushingham, Peltier Ice-3G: A New Global Model of Late Pleistocene Deglaciation Based Upon Geophysical Predictions of Post-Glacial Relative Sea Level Change , Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 96, 1991, p. 4497
  2. ↑ Peltier Ice Age Paleotopography ", Science, Volume 265, 1994, pp. 195-201
  3. ↑ Peltier Global glacial isostasy and the surface of the ice-age Earth: the ICE-5G (VM2) Model and GRACE ", Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Vol 32, 2004, p 111
personal data
SURNAME Peltier, Richard William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943