PolarRES
Despite the crucial role Polar Regions play in stabilising the global climate system, there are still critical knowledge gaps regarding the impact of polar climate processes on multiple scales and how they are evolving with our changing global climate. PolarRES studies the interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, and sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic. By understanding these processes and interactions in conjunction with an innovative storylines approach we adopt in PolarRES, a refined set of climate projections can be provided for the Polar Regions. This paves way for a more reliable assessment of the potential social and environmental impacts of climate change.
Impacts
PolarRES utilises novel storylines to project the impacts of climate change on the Polar environment and society. These storylines are tied directly to large-scale climate drivers, to better understand the changing Arctic and Antarctic climate, and the associated risks to the Polar environment. The response of the Polar environment in each storyline differs between the hemispheres due to differences in land-sea distribution, as well as sensitivity to varying large-scale climate drivers.
News
1 December 2023
Antarctic sea ice
A ring of sea ice surrounds Antarctica, which at its maximum in September, expands to an area more to that of Antarctica itself! But in the Antarctic summertime, it retreats to near the coastline.
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15 November 2023
Call for abstracts for PolarRES sessions at European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2024
PolarRES researchers are soliciting abstracts for three sessions organised as part of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna in 2024.
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7 November 2023
Young researchers in the spotlight: Ella Gilbert
We are writing profiles on early career researchers to make our younger scientists and their research more visible. It’s Ella's turn in the spotlight!
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