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 Gefion AI supercomputer 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 (Arctic and Antarctic) 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?).
From my side, I have used the rate of information transfer from Liang (2021) to better understand the causes and impacts of Arctic and Antarctic sea-ice lows in global climate models. Together with collaborators at UCLouvain (François Massonnet, Benjamin Richaud, Thierry Fichefet, Hugues Goosse, Annelies Sticker, Bianca Mezzina, Daniel Topal) and RMI (Stéphane Vannitsem, Francesco Ragone), I have looked at:
The drivers of summer Arctic sea-ice extent in CMIP6 large ensembles. These results have been published HERE.
The drivers of summer Antarctic sea-ice extent in CMIP6 large ensembles (see this paper).
The links between Arctic/Antarctic sea ice (volume, thickness, extent) and the different terms of the sea-ice mass balance in NEMO simulations (paper in preparation).