PolarRES

The Polar regions play a crucial role in balancing the global climate system – with the poles heating up much faster than the rest of the world. Yet, climate projections for the Polar regions still have significant uncertainties. This is hampering efforts to curb climate change and deal with the effects we already see at play – not only within the Polar regions, but also in Europe and the rest of the world. PolarRES will advance our understanding of how the climate of the Arctic and Antarctic will respond to future changes in the global circulation. PolarRES will also deliver new insights into how physical and chemical processes, crucial for atmosphere-ocean-ice interactions, can shape the global climate system.

There are still critical knowledge gaps regarding the impact of polar climate processes on multiple scales and how they are evolving with our changing global climate. PolarRES studies the interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, and sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic. By understanding these processes and interactions along with their innovative storylines approach, PolarRES assesses how to make climate projections in the Polar Regions more reliable for assessing social and environmental impacts of climate change.