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
28 March 2024
PolarRES in the Spotlight: Next Steps
This PolarRES in the Spotlight episode, featuring Ella Gilbert (BAS) and Priscilla Mooney (NORCE), focuses on the next steps of the project and the future of the Polar Regions.
Read more20 March 2024
Enhancing Polar System Representation in Models for EU Climate Decision-Making: Policy brief
A joint policy brief, realised in collaboration with our sister project CRiceS, highlights the need for regionally refined projections and improved representation of polar processes to predict the future of the Arctic and Antarctic regions – and the planet.
Read more5 March 2024
Senior researchers in the spotlight: Renate Treffeisen
We are writing profiles on PolarRES researchers to make our scientists and their research more visible. It’s Renate’s turn in the spotlight!
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