Excited to share our new preprint on the PolarRES dataset: a state-of-the-art regional climate model ensemble for Antarctica! We compare and evaluate the models to see how well they capture the continent’s weather and climate. 🌬️❄️ @drgilbz.bsky.social @ruthmottram.bsky.social @polarres.bsky.social

New preprint ✨: We explain why Antarctic ice-shelf melt responds non-linearly to warming, and show that the temperature-melt relationship differs between ice shelves in dry versus wet climates. Using new RACMO2.4p1 simulations until 2100 as part of @polarres.bsky.social project. 🇦🇶❄️

Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys are one of the most extreme places on Earth 🌍❄️. I talked with @drgilbz.bsky.social about my PhD research on the glaciers there, why they matter for climate and ecosystems, and how they’re changing in a warming world. Check the great video she made below ⬇️

You can now read our assessment, ideas and suggestions in our paper published in Journal of Glaciology, concerning questions such as: What kind of community do we hope to build over the next fifty years? What are current challenges and barriers? 🔍
Link: doi.org/10.1017/jog....

📣 New paper: Where do we want the glaciological
community to be in 2073?
Some context: The Karthaus summer school is an occasion where parts of our research community comes together — In 2023, I was lucky to participate myself and it was the year in which a new workshop was included in the program.

2️⃣🇧🇪 Kicking off Day 2 of our Annual Meeting with a poster session. An excellent opportunity for cross-pollination of ideas and a boost to the grey matter of our researchers!

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1️⃣ Yesterday marked the first day of our Annual Meeting in Brussels 🇧🇪. Each work package had the chance to share their latest updates. To wrap up the day we had a lovely dinner at the Grand Place!

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Wondering what drives the non-linearity between temperature and surface melt on Antarctic ice shelves? Come find me at poster X4.23 in Hall X4 for a chat this afternoon!

Attached a photo of Nansen Ice Shelf to get your attention 👀❄️ #EGU25 #Antarctica #Cryosphere

Big discoveries in bite-sized stories?

👉 Check out our new PolarRES in Practice Stories!

Explore the project's key findings through engaging stories that make complex discoveries easy to grasp.

🔗 polarres.eu/practice-sto...

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🔑Early Career Researchers are key to #Horizon2020 projects. They bring fresh ideas and represent the future of science.

🤝Last week, our ECRs met in Sylt, Germany to collaborate, learn and connect!

Read all about it in our latest article: polarres.eu/polarresnews...

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Understanding these snowfall dynamics is key to predicting future changes in ice sheets, glaciers, and ecosystems in Antarctica. Want to learn more? Check out our full paper: doi.org/10.1029/2024JD042021
📄 (5/5)?

Thanks to co-authors Nicolas Cullen, Marwan Katurji and @haraldsodemann.bsky.social. And thanks to the Antarctic Science Platform for funding the work.

To connect moisture sources to dominant weather patterns, we use Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) alongside moisture tracking. This combination reveals how different atmospheric circulation patterns influence transport of moisture and snowfall across Victoria Land. 📊 (4/5)

We find a distinct split in moisture sources: northern Victoria Land receives moisture from the west, while southern Victoria Land gets moisture from the east, driven by cyclones in the Ross Sea. 💨❄️ (3/5)

We use a Lagrangian moisture diagnostic to map moisture sources of snowfall. The Southern Ocean is a key supplier of moisture, and in summer, when sea ice retreats, the Ross Sea becomes an important local source. This suggests future sea ice changes could impact snowfall in this region. 🌊➡️❄️ (2/5)

New paper out! ❄️ Coastal Victoria Land, Antarctica, is a region of extremes—from the polar desert of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, to areas with much more snowfall nearby. We studied where the moisture for this snowfall comes from—and the weather patterns that drive it! 🌍 💨 (1/5)

We use a Lagrangian moisture diagnostic to map moisture sources of snowfall. The Southern Ocean is a key supplier of moisture, and in summer, when sea ice retreats, the Ross Sea becomes an important local source. This suggests future sea ice changes could impact snowfall in this region. 🌊➡️❄️ (2/5)

Really exciting week joining the PolarRES ECR's on Sylt to work together on understanding the future of Antarctic ice sheet 🇦🇶🥼