The project will allow a better understanding global climate dynamics and improve the future projections for Antarctica and its impact on sea level changes, which will refine assessments available to policy makers.

The climate of the high latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere has changed considerably over the last decades, but the origin and long-term relevance of those changes are not well understood, partially because of a lack of data. To make progress in our understanding of these dynamics, this project propose to study the Surface Mass Balance (net snow accumulation at the surface) variability in the Princess Ragnhild Coast region (Antarctica) at different spatial and temporal scales.

Thanks to a combined observations-modeling approach, the research will determine, among others, if the changes are the result of anthropogenic forcing and/or linked to the natural variability of oceanic and atmospheric circulation. The project will also allow a better understanding global climate dynamics and improve the future projections for Antarctica and its impact on sea level changes, which will refine assessments available to policy makers.

Coordinated by the UCL, this project associates the ULB - Laboratoire de Glaciologie J-L. Tison-, the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, the University of Colorado and the Delft University of TechnologyThe project will take place in the vicinity of the Belgian polar Base Princesse Elisabeth.

End of the project: 15/03/2020

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Created on August 29, 2018