Polar Amplification of Climate Change Across Hemisphere and Seasons: Causes and Constraints Workshop


Bringing together Arctic and Antarctic scientific communities to elucidate the asymmetries in the polar responses to anthropogenic climate change and identify actions to reduce projection uncertainties.

January 17-19, 2024 in Boulder, CO and virtual

The aim of the Polar Amplification of Climate Change Across Hemisphere and Seasons: Causes and Constraints Workshop is to bring together researchers studying Arctic and Antarctic climate change from observational and modeling perspectives (ranging from paleoclimate to climate change projections) to cross-pollinate and forge new collaborations that accelerate our understanding of polar amplification.

The objectives of the workshop are to:

  1. identify knowledge gaps and deficiencies in model diagnostics that limit our understanding of climate change in both polar regions;

  2. prioritize these knowledge gaps as areas for future research;

  3. identify strategies, tactics, and data needs (e.g., process studies, collaborative modeling activities, satellite missions) to address the identified knowledge gaps;

  4. identify candidate observational emergent constraints on key polar amplification  processes; and

  5. identify steps for enhancing community collaboration.