Ella Gilbert

Regional Climate Modeller

Ella Gilbert

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Ella Gilbert

Biography

I work on the EU-funded PolarRES project (www.polarres.eu) which explores how the Arctic and Antarctic climates may change in response to climate change. I run high-resolution regional climate models to predict the future of the poles. Most of my research concerns atmospheric processes and phenomena like clouds, wind patterns and the surface energy balance, as well as how the atmosphere interacts with ice sheets and ice shelves.

I am also passionate about communicating science and making climate science accessible to non-scientists. You can find me on Twitter, Youtube, Instagram and TikTok at @dr_gilbz.

Research interests

meteorology, climate science, atmospheric dynamics, climate modelling, science communication

Collaborations

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

2024

Hansen, Nicolaj, Orr, Andrew ORCIDORCID record for Andrew Orr, Zou, Xun, Boberg, Fredrik, Bracegirdle, Thomas J. ORCIDORCID record for Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Gilbert, Ella ORCIDORCID record for Ella Gilbert, Langen, Peter L., Lazzara, Matthew A., Mottram, Ruth, Phillips, Tony ORCIDORCID record for Tony Phillips, Price, Ruth ORCIDORCID record for Ruth Price, Simonsen, Sebastian B., Webster, Stuart. (2024) The importance of cloud properties when assessing surface melting in an offline-coupled firn model over Ross Ice shelf, West Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 18 (). 20 pp. 10.5194/tc-18-2897-2024

Gilbert, Ella ORCIDORCID record for Ella Gilbert, Holmes, Caroline ORCIDORCID record for Caroline Holmes. (2024) 2023’s Antarctic sea ice extent is the lowest on record. Weather, 79 (). 6 pp. 10.1002/wea.4518

2023

Lu, Hua ORCIDORCID record for Hua Lu, Orr, Andrew ORCIDORCID record for Andrew Orr, King, John C. ORCIDORCID record for John C. King, Phillips, Tony ORCIDORCID record for Tony Phillips, Gilbert, Ella ORCIDORCID record for Ella Gilbert, Colwell, Steve R., Bracegirdle, Thomas J. ORCIDORCID record for Thomas J. Bracegirdle. (2023) Extreme warm events in the South Orkney Islands, Southern Ocean: Compounding influence of atmospheric rivers and föhn conditions. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 149 (). 24 pp. 10.1002/qj.4578

Gilbert, Ella ORCIDORCID record for Ella Gilbert. (2023) Weather in my life. Weather, 78 (). pp. 10.1002/wea.4420

Orr, Andrew ORCIDORCID record for Andrew Orr, Deb, Pranab, Clem, Kyle R., Gilbert, Ella ORCIDORCID record for Ella Gilbert, Bromwich, David H., Boberg, Fredrik, Colwell, Steve, Hansen, Nicolaj, Lazzara, Matthew A., Mooney, Priscilla A., Mottram, Ruth, Niwano, Masashi, Phillips, Tony ORCIDORCID record for Tony Phillips, Pishniak, Denys, Reijmer, Carleen H., van de Berg, Willem Jan, Webster, Stuart, Zou, Xun. (2023) Characteristics of surface “melt potential” over Antarctic ice shelves based on regional atmospheric model simulations of summer air temperature extremes from 1979/80 to 2018/19. Journal of Climate, 36 (). 27 pp. 10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0386.1

2022

Kittel, Christoph, Amory, Charles, Hofer, Stefan, Agosta, Cécile, Jourdain, Nicolas C., Gilbert, Ella ORCIDORCID record for Ella Gilbert, Le Toumelin, Louis, Vignon, Étienne, Gallée, Hubert, Fettweis, Xavier. (2022) Clouds drive differences in future surface melt over the Antarctic ice shelves. The Cryosphere, 16 (). 15 pp. 10.5194/tc-16-2655-2022

Gilbert, E. ORCIDORCID record for E. Gilbert, Orr, A. ORCIDORCID record for A. Orr, Renfrew, I.A., King, J.C. ORCIDORCID record for J.C. King, Lachlan-Cope, T. ORCIDORCID record for T. Lachlan-Cope. (2022) A 20‐year study of melt processes over Larsen C Ice Shelf using a high‐resolution regional atmospheric model: Part 2, Drivers of surface melting. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127 (). 19 pp. 10.1029/2021JD036012

Gilbert, E. ORCIDORCID record for E. Gilbert, Orr, A. ORCIDORCID record for A. Orr, King, J.C. ORCIDORCID record for J.C. King, Renfrew, I., Lachlan-Cope, T.A. ORCIDORCID record for T.A. Lachlan-Cope. (2022) A 20-year study of melt processes over Larsen C Ice Shelf using a high-resolution regional atmospheric model: Part 1, Model configuration and validation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127 (). 17 pp. 10.1029/2021JD034766

2021

Gilbert, E. ORCIDORCID record for E. Gilbert, Kittel, C.. (2021) Surface melt and runoff on Antarctic ice shelves at 1.5°C, 2°C and 4°C of future warming. Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (). 9 pp. 10.1029/2020GL091733

2020

Gilbert, Ella ORCIDORCID record for Ella Gilbert. (2020) Atmospheric drivers of surface melting on the Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula. University of East Anglia, PhD thesis

Elvidge, Andrew D., Kuipers Munneke, Peter, King, John C. ORCIDORCID record for John C. King, Renfrew, Ian A., Gilbert, Ella ORCIDORCID record for Ella Gilbert. (2020) Atmospheric drivers of melt on Larsen C Ice Shelf: surface energy budget regimes and the impact of foehn. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125 (). pp. 10.1029/2020JD032463

Gilbert, Ella ORCIDORCID record for Ella Gilbert, Orr, Andrew ORCIDORCID record for Andrew Orr, King, John C. ORCIDORCID record for John C. King, Renfrew, I.A., Lachlan-Cope, Thomas ORCIDORCID record for Thomas Lachlan-Cope, Field, P.F., Boutle, I.A.. (2020) Summertime cloud phase strongly influences surface melting on the Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctica. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 146 (). pp. 10.1002/qj.3753

2018

Kuipers Munneke, P., Luckman, A.J., Bevan, S.L., Smeets, C.J.P.P., Gilbert, Ella ORCIDORCID record for Ella Gilbert, van den Broeke, M.R., Wang, W., Zender, C., Hubbard, B., Ashmore, D., Orr, Andrew ORCIDORCID record for Andrew Orr, King, John C. ORCIDORCID record for John C. King, Kulessa, B.. (2018) Intense winter surface melt on an Antarctic ice shelf. Geophysical Research Letters, 45 (). pp. 10.1029/2018GL077899

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