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
5 December 2024
Andrew Orr emphasises need for high-resolution modelling in new PCAPS blog
PolarRES researcher Andrew Orr (British Antarctic Survey, UK) has written a blog post for the PCAP project highlighting the need for high-resolution regional atmospheric modelling for the Polar Regions.
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5 December 2024
PolarRES joins Bluesky!
PolarRES is now active on social media platform Bluesky. Follow us @polarres.bsky.social to stay up to date with all our latest updates!
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4 December 2024
Young researchers in the spotlight: Anastasiia Chyhareva
We are writing profiles on early career researchers to make our younger scientists and their research more visible. It’s Anastasiia’s turn in the spotlight!
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Events
- 27.01.2025 – 30.01.2025
Arctic Frontiers 2025
The Arctic Frontiers Administration has, since 2007, organized the annual Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø, which gathers scientists, businesses, policymakers and representative of local and indigenous peoples for holistic discussions about the future of the Arctic region.
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European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly 2025
An assembly uniting geoscientists from all over the world.
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