SC2 High-Resolution Seasonal to Decadal Records

 

 

OBJECTIVES:

The main objectives:

  • Explore atmosphere-ocean-ice interactions over seasonal to centennial timescales.
  • Establish the role of sea ice on Antarctic surface mass balance (SMB) over seasonal to centennial timescales.
  • Quantify the role of winds and atmospheric circulation on SMB variability.

Key deliverables:

  • Improve existing SMB reconstructions as well as its drivers, using a combination of new paleo records and data-assimilation approaches.
  • Initiate new data compilations, based on isotope and chemical data from high-resolution paleo-archives (ice core, marine sediments, peat…) to reconstruct past sea ice and atmospheric circulation.
  • Refine the interpretation and the estimate of the uncertainty of existing records.
  • Test the compatibility between the signal reconstructed from different records, in particular between the oceanic and continental records, and between models and observations.
  • Understand the atmosphere-ocean-ice interactions over seasonal to centennial timescales.
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LEADERSHIP:

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Elisabeth THOMAS

lith@bas.ac.uk

British Antarctic Survey (UK) 

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Hughes GOOSSE

hugues.goosse@uclouvain.be

University of Louvain la Neuve (BELG)

  

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Tessa VANCE

Tessa.Vance@utas.edu.au

University of Tasmania (AUS)

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Quentin Dalaiden

quentin.dalaiden@uclouvain.be

Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium (ECR)

STEERING COMMITTEE:

Mathieu Casado (mathieu.casado@gmail.com)

Thomas Chen (thomaschen7@acm.org)

Holly Winton (holly.winton@vuw.ac.nz)