Welcome to the Polar Regional Climate and Cryosphere Modelling Group

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We are a dynamic research group at NCKF; DMI at the Danish Meteorological Institute .

We have three overarching goals: first, to understand climate processes on a local scale using, developing and improving our main tool, the HARMONIE-Climate (HCLIM) high resolution Regional climate model. We have a particular focus on the Arctic and Antarctic, but we also do Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and North America. Second, to make future projections of the cryosphere with a particular focus on the surface mass budget of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. To this end we have developed the surface scheme of HCLIM and the offline CISSEMBEL (Copenhagen Ice Snow Surface Energy and Mass Balance Model). We also conduct field studies at the DMI Geophysical Facility in Qaanaaq, NW Greenland and in collaboration with other institutes in Antarctica.
Third, to produce climate and sea level rise projections from the ice sheets over the medium to long term, using a suite of modelling tools, newly developed machine learning emulators and insights from our field studies.

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We are currently building up our team at DMI in the heart of Copenhagen. We are not currently recruiting, but we welcome visiting scientists. We also have an active programme of seminars focused on Earth system processes, particularly those relevant in the Polar regions. Get in touch if you’d like to join the list or give a seminar to our group.