I will soon start 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), will be led by Tian Tian (Danish Meteorological Institute, DMI) with co-PIs Stéphane Vannitsem (RMI) and Tommy S. Alstrøm (Technical University of Denmark, DTU).
It will combine 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.