Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 projects, OCEAN:ICE, PolarRES and PROTECT, will jointly hold a session ‘From Circulation Change to Sea Level Rise: the Polar Regions in the Earth System’ at the 2024 European Polar Science Week in Copenhagen. This joint session between three EU Polar Cluster projects will cover recent scientific advances made in both Polar Regions relating to climate and cryosphere. The three EU Polar Cluster projects cover related but different areas, and therefore blending the talks, will encourage new collaborations and networking across projects and between modelling as well as remote sensing communities.
The session, on Thursday, will highlight the importance of integrating earth observation data into climate ocean and and ice sheet models as well as the role of n-situ observations to monitor ice sheet – ocean interactions. The sister projects PROTECT and PolarRES are also focused on polar climate and ice sheet processes and there are lots of crossovers and between us. Presenting on behalf of OCEAN:ICE are Romain Millan of IGE who will talk about using satellite observations to measure calving processes in Antarctica and [TBC] who will contrast this with in-situ observations under ice shelves. Recently joined Anastasiia Chyhareva of NASC will bring the session up to speed on the atmospheric modelling work done in PolarRES that will also be applied and analysed in OCEAN:ICE to close the gaps in observations around the continent.
We will also be participating in a plenary with other Horizon Europe and ESA projects, including SO-ICE and 4D Antarctica with whom we held a very successful EO workshop in 2023 (see attached pdf!) to share our experiences of integrating ESA’s remote sensing work into climate and ice sheet modelling.
The joint session will include presentations by PIs Priscilla Mooney (PolarRES) and Gael Durand (PROTECT) as well as Ruth Mottram and invited talks from the following speakers:
- The challenge of MOSAiCMIP: Data to evaluate models and Earth observation Filip Severin von der Lippe, MetNo, University of Oslo – PolarRES
- Greenland ice sheet surface properties from remote sensing, presented by Kirk Scanlan, DTU – PROTECT
- Damage and solid ice fluxes from Antarctica, presented by Romain Millan, IGE – OCEAN:ICE
- Sub-ice shelf melt processes from space and in-situ observations TBC – OCEAN:ICE
- SMB from RCMs: structural uncertainties in sea level projections from both ice sheets Charles Amory and Quentin Glaude presented by Nicolaj Hansen, DMI –PROTECT
- Interactions between ice sheets from Greenland to Antarctica, presented by Christian Rodehacke, AWI – PROTECT
- Closing the Antarctic gap: Contributions from the Ukrainian National Antarctic Science Centre, Anastasiia Chyahareva – PolarRES/OCEAN:ICE
The European Polar Science Week is organised by the European Space Agency and the European Commission together with REA (Research Executive Agency), CINEA (European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency) and EPB (European Polar Board), as well as EU-PolarNet.
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