I am currently doing a postdoctoral research at the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMI) in the Unit of Dynamical Meteorology and Climatology Unit on the design of an early warning system to improve predictions of Arctic ice-free summers and its climate impacts at multi-seasonal time scale. The IcyAlert project ("Intelligent Climate Early Warning Alert for Arctic Ice-Free Summers"), funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF), is led by Tian Tian (Danish Meteorological Institute, DMI) with co-PIs Stéphane Vannitsem (RMI) and Tommy S. Alstrøm (Technical University of Denmark, DTU).
The project combines the expertise from the three groups to develop the early warning system: climate modeling (DMI), causal analysis (RMI), and large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) (DTU). Through this project, the consortium will receive privileged access to the AI supercomputer Gefion in Denmark. See RMI Zoom article for more information, as well as NNF press release.
Together with researchers from UCLouvain (PI: François Massonnet) and RMI (PI: David Docquier), we are investigating the cause-effect relationships between recent summer sea-ice lows in both polar regions and their potential interacting agents. This is done in the context of the BELSPO RESIST project (REcent Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice lows: Same causes, same impacTs?).