OCEAN ICE WP6 Webinar will be on Nov 4, 2025 11:00-12:00 CET!
WP6 investigates how changes in Antarctic freshwater fluxes, including those from melting icebergs, affect the global climate system. WP6 integrates on developments from WP1-5 into a coupled ice sheet–ocean modelling framework (BISICLES and NEMO) to determine spatially and temporally resolved freshwater and iceberg flux fields. The wider global impacts and feedbacks on the Antarctic Ice Sheet are quantified up to the year 2300 using the fully coupled UKESM–BISICLES system, and over millennial timescales with the PISM–MOM coupled ice sheet–ocean model. The programme will start with a work package 6 introduction talk followed by three thematics:
(1) Regional ice-ocean feedbacks in a global Earth System Model
(2) Iceberg calving and evolution with two talks on simulating in UKESM the impact of icebergs and ice-shelf on the Southern Ocean in climate and
(3) Long term effects of global warming on the interaction of Antarctic Ice Sheet, ocean and solid-Earth dynamics. The webinar will end with a session for questions and discussions.
This OCEAN ICE webinar will present how Work Package 6 (WP6) has integrated developments from OCEAN ICE WP1–5 into a coupled ice sheet–ocean modelling framework and Earth System Model.
💬 The webinar will conclude with a Q&A and discussion session.
Speakers:
🔹 Tony Payne (University of Liverpool) - WP6 Introduction
🔹 Jing Jin (University of Liverpool) - Regional ice–ocean feedbacks in a global Earth system model
🔹 Yavor Kostov (British Antarctic Survey) - Impact of icebergs on the Southern Ocean in UKESM climate change simulations
🔹 Robin Smith (University of Reading) -Initial simulation of the climate impact of ice-shelf collapse in UKESM
🔹 Torsten Albrecht (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) -
Long-term effects of global warming on the interaction of Antarctic Ice Sheet, ocean and solid-Earth dynamics
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how OCEAN ICE scientists are advancing our understanding of Antarctica’s role in the global climate system!
Register here: https://lnkd.in/eKpFvEYz
This author of the article EPB (European Polar Board)