Climate Analysis
- Understanding the functioning of the climate system (mean and variability)
- Exploring the influence of polar climate change on the weather and climate in mid-latitudes
- Explaining the role of the polar regions in the global climate system
Climate Modelling
- Developing sea ice-ocean models based on unstructured mesh methods and their incorporation into climate models
- Exploring the benefit of variable resolution in climate modelling
- Developing the next generation of high resolution sea ice models
- Representation of ice shelf-ocean in global climate models
- Coupling of biogeochemical process modelling with our models
- Contributions to international Model Intercomparison Projects (MIPs)
Climate Predictions and Projections
- Determining the limits of predictability
- Contributing to improving operational forecasting systems
- Representation of uncertainty in climate models
- Provision of reliable projections for the 21st century
- Understanding the physics of climate change
Data Assimilation
- Development and application of inverse modelling and variational approaches
- Implementation and application of ensemble-based data assimilation methods
- Diagnosis of model error
- Observing system design
