Climate variability and change in Antarctica

I will study the cloud-aerosol effect as well as the variability and predictability in Antarctica, using the regional climate model COSMO-CLM2 and observations taken at the Belgian Antarctic Research Station Princess Elisabeth. The work is part of the CLIMB project, which is aimed at better understanding the effects that cloud-aerosol interactions have on the Surface Mass Balance in East Antarctica; and of the PARAMOUR project, which has the revelation of fundamental drivers of climate variability in the polar regions through coupled regional climate models as its goal. During my PhD, i will focus on modelling atmospheric processes over Antarctica as well as analysing their interactions with the ocean, ice shelves and sea ice on various different time-scales and resolutions, with special attention given to East Antarctica, cloud-aerosol interactions, and feedback processes.