Louise Sime

Palaeoclimate Modeller - IMP 3

Louise Sime

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Louise Sime

Biography

My research is primarily concerned with developing a better understanding changes in the ice sheets, sea ice, and climate in polar regions over the last 800 000 years. Much of my effort goes into understanding ice core observations of stable water isotopes by using climate models. Water isotopes (deuterium and oxygen-18) in ice are a key long-term record of past changes in the polar environmental and global climate. Water isotope enabled simulations, from climate models, help us understand how changes in ice sheets, sea ice, and climate imprint themselves in polar ice cores.
 

I have worked for the British Antarctic Survey since 2006. Before this, I had a two year stint as a senior research associate at UEA (2003-2006), and obtained a PhD from the University of Sheffield (in 2004). And before all that, I gained a BSc Hons degree from the University of Glasgow (in 1999).

 

Current responsibilities for BAS:

  • Deputy Team Leader of Ice Dynamics and Palaeoclimate (IDP)
  • Group head of IDP Earth System Modelling

 

2021/2022 advertised PhD projects (deadlines now passed):

Currently advertised PDRA positions:

  • None

Current students and staff:

  • Dr Alison McLaren, PDRA, (British Antarctic Survey, UK).
  • Dr Rahul Sivankutty, PDRA, (British Antarctic Survey, UK).
  • Dr Irene Malmierca, PDRA, (British Antarctic Survey, UK).
  • Ms Huiling Zou, PhD candidate (British Antarctic Survey, UK).
  • Ms Rachel Diamond, PhD candidate (British Antarctic Survey, UK).
  • Mr Qinggang Gao, PhD candidate (British Antarctic Survey, UK).
  • Ms Eliza Ziegler, PhD candidate (University of Heidelberg, Germany).
  • Ms Estelle Lonyem Ngoumtsa, PhD candidate (University of Bristol, UK).

Previous students and staff:

  • Dr Matthew Chadwick, PhD candidate (British Antarctic Survey, UK).
  • Dr Vittoria Guarino, PDRA, (British Antarctic Survey, UK).
  • Ms Fiona Turner, PhD candidate (University of Sheffield, UK).
  • Ms Irene Malmierca, PhD candidate (British Antarctic Survey, UK).
  • Dr Kira Rehfeld, DFG Research Fellow (British Antarctic Survey, UK).
  • Dr Max Holloway, PDRA, (British Antarctic Survey, UK).
  • Dr Emilie Capron, Senior scientist, (British Antarctic Survey, UK).
  • Mr Max Holloway,  PhD candidate (British Antarctic Survey, UK).
  • Dr Gisela Hiess, PDRA (British Antarctic Survey, UK).

Funding and major projects:

  • Institute and ERC lead: EU DEEPICE: Understanding Deep Ice Core Proxies to Infer Past Antarctic Climate Dynamics
  • Modelling lead: EU ERC Grant: ANTarctic Sea Ice Evolution from a novel biological archive: ANTSIE
  • UK and modelling lead: NZ Marsden: Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution (RICE) Project
  • WP and Institute  Lead: EU-H2020: Tipping Points in the Earths System: TiPES
  • Co-Investigator. AHRC: research grant: Materializing Data, Embodying Climate Change.  AH/S00369X/
  • Co-Investigator. EU-ERC Grant: Warm Climate Stability of the West Antarctic ice sheet in the last Interglacial: WACSWAIN.
  • Principal Investigator. NERC Standard Grant: Retreat of Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice, 130 000 to 116 000 years BP. NE/P013279/1.
  • Principal Investigator. NSF-NERC Standard Grant: Paleoclimate signatures of the climate response to West Antarctic ice sheet collapse. NE/P009271/1.
  • Co-Investigator. Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures Grant: Reconstructing the past and predicting the future: what can ice cores tell us about climate?
  • Principal Investigator. EPSRC-Feasibility Study Grant: Emulating the Isotope Response to Changes in the Geometry of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
  • Co-Investigator. NERC Standard Grant: Late Quaternary changes in Westerly Winds over the Southern Ocean. NE/K004514/1.
  • Principal Investigator. NERC New Investigator Grant: The Age Structure of the Greenland Ice Sheet. NE/J004804/1.

 

Research interests

One of the key questions which has motivated my recent work is the question of how can we best use ice and marine core evidence from the Last Interglacial, 130 000 to 116 000 years ago, to help better predict likely polar change over the coming centuries.  Last Interglacial global temperature was quite similar to that predicted over the coming 50 years; but polar regions were substantially warmer than they are today. Reconstructing and modeling polar ice sheets and sea ice changes during the Last Interglacial provides a unique means to evaluate future predictions of critical changes in both polar climate and global sea level.

 

Collaborations

Professional (collaborative) activities:

  • 2022-          Science Advisory Group – Centre for Polar Observations and Modelling (CPOM-UK)
  • 2021-          Visiting Fellow University of Victoria, Wellington, NZ
  • 2018-2021 Member of the NERC Large Grant panel
  • 2018-2020 Chair of the University of Cambridge C-CLEAR NERC DTP Climate and Environment panel: Awards 3-12 NERC PhD studentships
  • 2018-2020 Steering Committee: SCAR Past Antarctic Ice Sheet (PAIS)
  • 2017-2020 Steering Committee: PAGES Climate Variability Across Scales (CVAS)
  • 2016-2022 Core panel A member for NERC: Attend 2-3 panel meetings per year
  • 2016-2018 Management board member: GW4+ NERC DTP: Awards 28 NERC PhD studentships
  • 2016-2017 Chaired interview panel: For GW4+ DTP across multiple sites.
  • 2015-2017 Elected Work Group Leader: the Past Earth Network, Model-Data Comparisons

Polar Data Centre Datasets:

  • Guarino, M. V., & Sime, L. (2022). Last Interglacial summer air temperature observations for the Arctic (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/9AB58D27-596A-472C-A13E-2DCD68612082
  • Guarino, M. V., & Sime, L. (2021). HadCM3 and HadGEM3 LIG model outputs: A sea ice-free Arctic (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/9B138820-EEC3-43AE-A49B-068A9F5931A4
  • Perren, B., Hodgson, D., Roberts, S., Sime, L., Van Nieuwenhuyze, W., Verleyen, E., & Vyverman, W. (2020). Fossil diatom and geochemistry data from a 700-year core from La Grange Cop, subantarctic Marion Island. (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/49A1EC0E-AE5F-4DF5-A59B-FA6DFF614678
  • Malmierca Vallet, I., Domingo, D., Sime, L., & Voss, J. (2020). Surface elevation of 69 Greenland Ice Sheet morphologies and associated δ18O anomalies (with respect to Pre-industrial) simulated by HadCM3 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/35AED839-1634-4692-B6D6-4D6312953EB5
  • Goursaud, S., Holloway, M., Sime, L., Wolff, E., Valdes, P., Steig, E., & Pauling, A. (2020). Global monthly outputs of orography, surface air temperature and water stable isotopes for the last interglacial for idealised Antarctic Ice Sheet simulations run by the isotope-enabled HadCM3 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/09330D14-7F2D-4C12-AD00-08A9CD1FB214
  • Holloway, M. (2018). Southern Hemisphere winter sea ice concentration simulated by HadCM3 to best explain the early last interglacial Antarctic isotope peak [Data set]. Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation, UK. https://doi.org/10.5285/0F3D9228-2F4A-4F2C-BBE6-EE8A123DB58D

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

2023

Corby, Tom, Baily, Gavin, Mckenzie, Jonathan, Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Lane, Giles, Dickson, Erin, Roussos, George. (2023) Political atmospherics: climate visualisations at the Manifest Data Lab. Journal of Visual Art Practice, 22. 7 pp. 10.1080/14702029.2022.2151192

2022

McClymont, Erin L., Bentley, M.J., Hodgson, D.A. ORCIDORCID record for D.A. Hodgson, Spencer-Jones, C.L., Wardley, T., West, M.D., Croudace, I.W., Berg, S., Grocke, D.R., Kuhn, G., Jamieson, S.S.R., Sime, L.C. ORCIDORCID record for L.C. Sime, Phillips, R.A.. (2022) Snow petrel stomach-oil deposits as a new biological archive of Antarctic sea ice. Past Global Changes Magazine, 30. 82-83. 10.22498/pages.30.2.82

Sicard, Marie, de Boer, A.M., Sime, L.C. ORCIDORCID record for L.C. Sime. (2022) Last Interglacial Arctic sea ice as simulated by the latest generation of climate models. Past Global Changes Magazine, 30. 92-93. 10.22498/pages.30.2.92

de Boer, Agatha M., Hutchinson, David K., Roquet, Fabien, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Burls, Natalie J., Heuzé, Céline. (2022) The impact of Southern Ocean topographic barriers on the ocean circulation and the overlying atmosphere. Journal of Climate, 35. 17 pp. 10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0896.1

Malmierca-Vallet, Irene ORCIDORCID record for Irene Malmierca-Vallet, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, community members, the D-O. (2022) Dansgaard-Oeschger events in climate models: Review and baseline MIS3 protocol [in review]. Climate of the Past. 10.5194/egusphere-2022-707

Sime, Louise Claire ORCIDORCID record for Louise Claire Sime, Sivankutty, Rahul, Malmierca Vallet, Irene ORCIDORCID record for Irene Malmierca Vallet, de Boer, Agatha M., Sicard, Marie. (2022) Summer surface air temperature proxies point to near sea-ice-free conditions in the Arctic at 127 ka [in review]. Climate of the Past. 10.5194/egusphere-2022-594

Crosta, Xavier, Kohfeld, Karen E., Bostock, Helen C., Chadwick, Matthew ORCIDORCID record for Matthew Chadwick, Du Vivier, Alice, Esper, Oliver, Etourneau, Johan, Jones, Jacob, Leventer, Amy, Müller, Juliane, Rhodes, Rachel H., Allen, Claire S. ORCIDORCID record for Claire S. Allen, Ghadi, Pooja, Lamping, Nele, Lange, Carina, Lawler, Kelly-Anne, Lund, David, Marzocchi, Alice ORCIDORCID record for Alice Marzocchi, Meissner, Katrin J., Menviel, Laurie, Nair, Abhilash, Patterson, Molly, Pike, Jennifer, Prebble, Joseph G., Riesselman, Christina, Sadatzki, Henrik, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Shukla, Sunil K., Thöle, Lena, Vorrath, Maria-Elena, Xiao, Wenshen, Yang, Jiao. (2022) Antarctic sea ice over the past 130 000 years, Part 1: A review of what proxy records tell us. Climate of the Past, 18. 1729-1756. 10.5194/cp-18-1729-2022

Ellerhoff, Beatrice, Kirschner, Moritz J., Ziegler, Elisa, Holloway, Max D., Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Rehfeld, Kira. (2022) Contrasting state-dependent effects of natural forcing on global and local climate variability. Geophysical Research Letters, 49. 12 pp. 10.1029/2022GL098335

McClymont, Erin L., Bentley, Michael J., Hodgson, Dominic A. ORCIDORCID record for Dominic A. Hodgson, Spencer-Jones, Charlotte L., Wardley, Thomas, West, Martin D., Croudace, Ian W., Berg, Sonja, Gröcke, Darren R., Kuhn, Gerhard, Jamieson, Stewart S.R., Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Phillips, Richard A.. (2022) Summer sea-ice variability on the Antarctic margin during the last glacial period reconstructed from snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) stomach-oil deposits. Climate of the Past, 18. 381-403. 10.5194/cp-18-381-2022

Patterson, Molly O., Levy, Richard H., Kulhanek, Denise K., van de Flierdt, Tina, Horgan, Huw, Dunbar, Gavin B., Naish, Timothy R., Ash, Jeanine, Pyne, Alex, Mandeno, Darcy, Winberry, Paul, Harwood, David M., Florindo, Fabio, Jimenez-Espejo, Francisco J., Läufer, Andreas, Yoo, Kyu-Cheul, Seki, Osamu, Stocchi, Paolo, Klages, Johann P., Lee, Jae Il, Colleoni, Florence, Suganuma, Yusuke, Gasson, Edward, Ohneiser, Christian, Flores, José-Abel, Try, David, Kirkman, Rachel, Koch, Daleen, Science Team, SWAIS 2C inc., Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Smith, James ORCIDORCID record for James Smith. (2022) Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to +2 °C (SWAIS 2C). Scientific Drilling, 30. 101-112. 10.5194/sd-30-101-2022

Chadwick, Matthew ORCIDORCID record for Matthew Chadwick, Allen, Claire S. ORCIDORCID record for Claire S. Allen, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Crosta, Xavier, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter ORCIDORCID record for Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand. (2022) Reconstructing Antarctic winter sea-ice extent during Marine Isotope Stage 5e. Climate of the Past, 18. 129-146. 10.5194/cp-18-129-2022

Guarino, Maria Vittoria ORCIDORCID record for Maria Vittoria Guarino, Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Schroeder, David, Ridley, Jeff. (2022) The first 250 years of the Heinrich 11 iceberg discharge: Last Interglacial HadGEM3-GC3.1 simulations for CMIP6-PMIP4 [in review]. Climate of the Past: Discussions. 10.5194/cp-2021-187

Chadwick, M. ORCIDORCID record for M. Chadwick, Allen, C.S. ORCIDORCID record for C.S. Allen, Sime, L.C. ORCIDORCID record for L.C. Sime, Crosta, X., Hillenbrand, C.-D. ORCIDORCID record for C.-D. Hillenbrand. (2022) How does the Southern Ocean palaeoenvironment during Marine Isotope Stage 5e compare to the modern?. Marine Micropaleontology, 170. 14 pp. 10.1016/j.marmicro.2021.102066

2021

Corby, Tom, Baily, Gavin, Mackenzie, Jonathan, Lane, Giles, Dickson, Erin, Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Roussos, George. (2021) The Data Imaginaries of Climate Art: The Manifest Data Project. Leonardo. 18-22. 10.1162/leon_a_02136

Diamond, Rachel, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Schroeder, David, Guarino, Maria-Vittoria ORCIDORCID record for Maria-Vittoria Guarino. (2021) The contribution of melt ponds to enhanced Arctic sea-ice melt during the Last Interglacial. The Cryosphere, 15. 16 pp. 10.5194/tc-15-5099-2021

Bühler, Janica C., Roesch, Carla, Kirschner, Moritz, Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Holloway, Max D., Rehfeld, Kira. (2021) Comparison of the oxygen isotope signatures in speleothem records and iHadCM3 model simulations for the last millennium. Climate of the Past, 17. 985-1004. 10.5194/cp-17-985-2021

Goursaud, Sentia, Holloway, Max, Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Wolff, Eric, Valdes, Paul, Steig, Eric J., Pauling, Andrew. (2021) Antarctic Ice Sheet elevation impacts on water isotope records during the Last Interglacial. Geophysical Research Letters, 48. 10 pp. 10.1029/2020GL091412

Otto-Bliesner, Bette, Brady, Esther, Zhao, Anni, Brierley, Chris, Axford, Yarrow, Capron, Emilie, Govin, Aline, Hoffman, Jeremy, Isaacs, Elizabeth, Kageyama, Masa, Scussolini, Paolo, Tzedakis, Polychronis C., Williams, Charlie, Wolff, Eric, Abe-Ouchi, Ayako, Braconnot, Pascale, Ramos Buarque, Silvana, Cao, Jian, de Vernal, Anne, Guarino, Maria Vittoria ORCIDORCID record for Maria Vittoria Guarino, Guo, Chuncheng, LeGrande, Allegra N., Lohmann, Gerrit, Meissner, Katrin, Menviel, Laurie, Nisancioglu, Kerim, O'ishi, Ryouta, Salas Y Melia, David, Shi, Xioaoxu, Sicard, Marie, Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Tomas, Robert, Volodin, Evgeny, Yeung, Nicolas, Zhang, Qiong, Zhang, Zhonghi, Zheng, Weipeng. (2021) Large-scale features of Last Interglacial climate: results from evaluating the lig127k simulations for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)-Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP4).. Climate of the Past, 17. 32 pp. 10.5194/cp-17-63-2021

Kageyama, Masa, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Sicard, Marie, Guarino, Maria Vittoria ORCIDORCID record for Maria Vittoria Guarino, de Vernal, Anne, Schroeder, David, Stein, Ruediger, Malmierca Vallet, Irene ORCIDORCID record for Irene Malmierca Vallet, Abe-Ouchi, Ayako, Bitz, Cecilia, Braconnot, Pascale, Brady, Esther, Chamberlain, Matthew A., Feltham, Danny, Guo, Chuncheng, Lohmann, Gerrit, Meissner, Katrin, Menviel, Laurie, Morozova, Polina, Nisancioglu, Kerim H., Otto-Bliesner, Bette, O'ishi, Ryouta, Sherriff-Tadano, Sam, Stroeve, Julienne, Shi, Xiaoxu, Sun, Bo, Volodin, Evgeny, Yeung, Nicholas, Zhang, Qiong, Zhang, Zhongshi, Ziehn, Tilo. (2021) A multi-model CMIP6-PMIP4 study of Arctic sea ice at 127ka: Sea ice data compilation and model differences. Climate of the Past, 17. 26 pp. 10.5194/cp-17-37-2021

2020

Malmierca-Vallet, Irene ORCIDORCID record for Irene Malmierca-Vallet, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Valdes, Paul J., Tindall, Julia C.. (2020) Sea ice feedbacks influence the isotopic signature of Greenland ice sheet elevation changes: Last interglacial HadCM3 simulations. Climate of the Past, 16. 24 pp. 10.5194/cp-16-2485-2020

Perren, Bianca B. ORCIDORCID record for Bianca B. Perren, Hodgson, Dominic A. ORCIDORCID record for Dominic A. Hodgson, Roberts, Stephen J. ORCIDORCID record for Stephen J. Roberts, Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Van Nieuwenhuyze, Wim, Verleyen, Elie, Vyverman, Wim. (2020) Southward migration of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds corresponds with warming climate over centennial timescales. Communications Earth & Environment, 1. 8 pp. 10.1038/s43247-020-00059-6

Brown, Josephine R., Brierley, Chris M., An, Soon-Il, Guarino, Maria Vittoria ORCIDORCID record for Maria Vittoria Guarino, Stevenson, Samantha, Williams, Charles J.R., Zhang, Qiong, Zhao, Anni, Braconnot, Pascale, Brady, Esther C., Chandan, Deepak, D'Agostino, Roberta, Guo, Chuncheng, LeGrande, Allegra N., Lohmann, Gerrit, Morozova, Polina A., Ohgaito, Rumi, O'ishi, Ryouta, Otto-Bliesner, Bette, Peltier, Richard W., Shi, Xiaoxu, Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Volodin, Evgeny M., Zhang, Zhongshi, Weipeng, Zheng. (2020) Comparison of past and future simulations of ENSO in CMIP5/PMIP3 and CMIP6/PMIP4 models. Climate of the Past, 16. 29 pp. 10.5194/cp-2019-155

Guarino, Maria Vittoria ORCIDORCID record for Maria Vittoria Guarino, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Schröeder, David, Malmierca Vallet, Irene ORCIDORCID record for Irene Malmierca Vallet, Rosenblum, Erica, Ringer, Mark, Ridley, Jeff, Feltham, Danny, Bitz, Cecilia, Steig, Eric J., Wolff, Eric, Stroeve, Julienne, Sellar, Alistair. (2020) Sea-ice-free Arctic during the Last Interglacial supports fast future loss. Nature Climate Change, 10. 928-932. 10.1038/s41558-020-0865-2

Williams, Charles J.R., Guarino, Maria Vittoria ORCIDORCID record for Maria Vittoria Guarino, Capron, Emilie, Malmierca Vallet, Irene ORCIDORCID record for Irene Malmierca Vallet, Singarayer, Joy S., Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Lunt, Daniel J., Valdes, Paul J.. (2020) CMIP6/PMIP4 simulations of the mid-Holocene and Last Interglacial using HadGEM3: comparison to the pre-industrial era, previous model versions and proxy data. Climate of the Past, 16. 22 pp. 10.5194/cp-16-1429-2020

Domingo, Dario, Malmierca Vallet, Irene ORCIDORCID record for Irene Malmierca Vallet, Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Voss, Jochen, Capron, Emilie. (2020) Using ice cores and Gaussian process emulation to recover changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet during the last interglacial. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 125. 19 pp. 10.1029/2019JF005237

Dalaiden, Quentin, Goosse, Hugues, Klein, François, Lenaerts, Jan T.M., Holloway, Max ORCIDORCID record for Max Holloway, Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Thomas, Elizabeth R. ORCIDORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas. (2020) How useful is snow accumulation in reconstructing surface air temperature in Antarctica? A study combining ice core records and climate models. The Cryosphere, 14. 1187-1207. 10.5194/tc-14-1187-2020

Guarino, Maria Vittoria ORCIDORCID record for Maria Vittoria Guarino, Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Schroeder, David, Lister, Grenville M.S., Hatcher, Rosalyn. (2020) Machine dependence and reproducibility for coupled climate simulations: the HadGEM3-GC3.1 CMIP Preindustrial simulation. Geoscientific Model Development, 13. 139-154. 10.5194/gmd-13-139-2020

Chadwick, Matthew ORCIDORCID record for Matthew Chadwick, Allen, Claire S. ORCIDORCID record for Claire S. Allen, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter ORCIDORCID record for Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand. (2020) Analysing the timing of peak warming and minimum winter sea-ice extent in the Southern Ocean during MIS 5e. Quaternary Science Reviews, 229. 16 pp. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106134

2019

Turner, Fiona, Wilkinson, Richard, Buck, Caitlin, Jones, Julie, Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime. (2019) Ice Cores and Emulation: Learning More About Past Ice Sheet Shapes.. In: 4th Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting, BAYSM 2018 Warwick; United Kingdom, 2 July 2018 through 3 July 2018. Springer.

Bracegirdle, Thomas J. ORCIDORCID record for Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Colleoni, Florence, Abram, Nerilie J., Bertler, Nancy A.N., Dixon, Daniel A., England, Mark, Favier, Vincent, Fogwill, Chris J., Fyfe, John C., Goodwin, Ian, Goose, Hugues, Hobbs, Will, Jones, Julie M., Keller, Elizabeth D., Khan, Alia L., Phipps, Steven J., Raphael, Marilyn N., Russell, Joellen, Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Thomas, Elizabeth R. ORCIDORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas, van den Broeke, Michiel R., Wainer, Ilana. (2019) Back to the Future: Using long-term observational and paleo-proxy reconstructions to improve model projections of Antarctic climate. Geosciences, 9. 10.3390/geosciences9060255

Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Hopcroft, Peter O., Rhodes, Rachael H.. (2019) Impact of abrupt sea ice loss on Greenland water isotopes during the last glacial period. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116. 4099-4104. 10.1073/pnas.1807261116

Voarintsoa, Ny Riavo G, Matero, Ilkka SO, Railsback, L Bruce, Gregoire, Lauren J, Tindall, Julia, Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Cheng, Hai, Edwards, R Lawrence, Brook, George A, Kathayat, Gayatri, Li, Xianglei, Rakotondrazafy, Amos Fety Michel, Razanatseheno, Marie Olga Madison. (2019) Investigating the 8.2 ka event in northwestern Madagascar: insight from data–model comparisons. Quaternary Science Reviews, 204. 172-186. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.11.030

Sime, L.C. ORCIDORCID record for L.C. Sime, Carlson, A.E., Holloway, M. ORCIDORCID record for M. Holloway. (2019) On recovering Last Interglacial changes in the Antarctic ice sheet. Past Global Changes Magazine, 27. 14-15. 10.22498/pages.27.1.14

2018

De Boer, Agatha M., Pascual-Ahuir, Gavilan Estanislao, Stevens, David P., Chafik, Léon, Hutchinson, David K., Zhang, Qiong, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Willmott, Andrew J.. (2018) Interconnectivity between volume transports through Arctic straits. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123. 8714-8729. 10.1029/2018JC014320

Holloway, Max D. ORCIDORCID record for Max D. Holloway, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Singarayer, Joy S., Tindall, Julia C., Valdes, Paul J.. (2018) Simulating the 128 ka Antarctic climate response to Northern Hemisphere ice sheet melting using the isotope-enabled HadCM3. Geophysical Research Letters, 45. 11921-11929. 10.1029/2018GL079647

Malmierca Vallet, Irene ORCIDORCID record for Irene Malmierca Vallet, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Tindall, Julia C, Capron, Emilie ORCIDORCID record for Emilie Capron, Valdes, Paul J, Vinther, Bo M. (2018) Simulating the Last Interglacial Greenland stable water isotope peak: the role of Arctic sea ice changes. Quaternary Science Reviews, 198. 1-14. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.07.027

Saunders, Krystyna M., Roberts, Stephen J. ORCIDORCID record for Stephen J. Roberts, Perren, Bianca ORCIDORCID record for Bianca Perren, Butz, Christoph, Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Davies, Sarah, Van Nieuwenhuyze, Wim, Grosjean, Martin, Hodgson, Dominic A. ORCIDORCID record for Dominic A. Hodgson. (2018) Holocene dynamics of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds and possible links to CO2 outgassing. Nature Geoscience, 11. 650-655. 10.1038/s41561-018-0186-5

2017

Holloway, Max D. ORCIDORCID record for Max D. Holloway, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Allen, Claire S. ORCIDORCID record for Claire S. Allen, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter ORCIDORCID record for Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, Bunch, Pete, Wolff, Eric, Valdes, Paul J.. (2017) The spatial structure of the 128 ka Antarctic sea ice minimum. Geophysical Research Letters, 44. 11129-11139. 10.1002/2017GL074594

Rhodes, Rachael H., Brook, Edward J., McConnell, Joseph R., Blunier, Thomas, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Faïn, Xavier, Mulvaney, Robert ORCIDORCID record for Robert Mulvaney. (2017) Atmospheric methane variability: Centennial-scale signals in the Last Glacial Period. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 31. 575-590. doi:10.1002/2016GB005570

2016

Sime, Louise S. ORCIDORCID record for Louise S. Sime, Hodgson, Dominic ORCIDORCID record for Dominic Hodgson, Bracegirdle, Thomas J. ORCIDORCID record for Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Allen, Claire ORCIDORCID record for Claire Allen, Perren, Bianca ORCIDORCID record for Bianca Perren, Roberts, Stephen ORCIDORCID record for Stephen Roberts, de Boer, Agatha M.. (2016) Sea ice led to poleward-shifted winds at the Last Glacial Maximum: the influence of state dependency on CMIP5 and PMIP3 models. Climate of the Past, 12. 2241-2253. doi:10.5194/cp-12-2241-2016

Holloway, Max D. ORCIDORCID record for Max D. Holloway, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Singarayer, Joy S., Tindall, Julia C., Bunch, Pete, Valdes, Paul J.. (2016) Antarctic last interglacial isotope peak in response to sea ice retreat not ice-sheet collapse. Nature Communications, 7. 9 pp. doi:10.1038/ncomms12293

Holloway, Max D. ORCIDORCID record for Max D. Holloway, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Singarayer, Joy S., Tindall, Julia C., Valdes, Paul J.. (2016) Reconstructing paleosalinity from δ18O: Coupled model simulations of the Last Glacial Maximum, Last Interglacial and Late Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, 131. 350-364. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.07.007

2014

Capron, Emilie ORCIDORCID record for Emilie Capron, Govin, Aline, Stone, Emma J., Masson-Delmotte, Valérie, Mulitza, Stefan, Otto-Bliesner, Bette, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Waelbroeck, Claire, Wolff, Eric W.. (2014) Temporal and spatial structure of multi‐millennial temperature changes at high latitudes during the Last Interglacial. Quaternary Science Reviews, 103. 116-133. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.08.018

Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime. (2014) Greenland deglaciation puzzles. Science, 345. 1116-1117. 10.1126/science.1257842

Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Karlsson, Nanna B., Paden, John D., Gogineni, S. Prasad. (2014) Isochronous information in a Greenland ice sheet radio-echo sounding dataset. Geophysical Research Letters, 41. 1593-1599. 10.1002/2013GL057928

2013

Kohfeld, K.E., Graham, R.M., de Boer, A.M., Sime, L.C. ORCIDORCID record for L.C. Sime, Wolff, E.W., Le Quéré, C., Bopp, L.. (2013) Southern Hemisphere westerly wind changes during the Last Glacial Maximum: paleo-data synthesis. Quaternary Science Reviews, 68. 76-95. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.01.017

Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Risi, Camille, Tindall, Julia C., Sjolte, Jesper, Wolff, Eric W., Masson-Delmotte, Valérie, Capron, Emilie ORCIDORCID record for Emilie Capron. (2013) Warm climate isotopic simulations: what do we learn about interglacial signals in Greenland ice cores?. Quaternary Science Reviews, 67. 59-80. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.01.009

Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Kohfeld, Karen E., Le Quere, Corinne, Wolff, Eric, de Boer, Agatha M., Graham, Robert M., Bopp, Laurent. (2013) Southern Hemisphere westerly wind changes during the Last Glacial Maximum: model-data comparison. Quaternary Science Reviews, 64. 104-120. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.12.008

Royles, Jessica ORCIDORCID record for Jessica Royles, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Hodgson, Dominic A. ORCIDORCID record for Dominic A. Hodgson, Convey, Peter ORCIDORCID record for Peter Convey, Griffiths, Howard. (2013) Differing source water inputs, moderated by evaporative enrichment, determine the contrasting δ18OCELLULOSE signals in maritime Antarctic moss peat banks. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 118. 184-194. doi:10.1002/jgrg.20021

Masson-Delmotte, Valerie, Capron, E. ORCIDORCID record for E. Capron, Goosse, H., Pol, K., Siddall, M., Sime, L. ORCIDORCID record for L. Sime, Bradley, S., Stenni, B.. (2013) Antarctic interglacial climate variability and implications for changes in ice sheet topography. PAGES News, 21. 18-19.

Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Masson-Delmotte, V., Risi, C., Sjolte, J.. (2013) Sea surface temperature controls on warm climate water isotopes in Greenland ice cores. PAGES News, 21. 28-29.

2012

Mulvaney, Robert ORCIDORCID record for Robert Mulvaney, Abram, Nerilie J., Hindmarsh, Richard C.A. ORCIDORCID record for Richard C.A. Hindmarsh, Arrowsmith, Carol, Fleet, Louise, Triest, Jack, Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Alemany, Olivier, Foord, Susan. (2012) Recent Antarctic Peninsula warming relative to Holocene climate and ice shelf history. Nature, 489. 141-144. 10.1038/nature11391

2011

Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Lang, Nicola, Thomas, Elizabeth ORCIDORCID record for Elizabeth Thomas, Benton, Ailsa, Mulvaney, Robert ORCIDORCID record for Robert Mulvaney. (2011) On high-resolution sampling of short ice cores: dating and temperature information recovery from Antarctic Peninsula virtual cores. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116. 17 pp. 10.1029/2011JD015894

Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Wolff, Eric. (2011) Antarctic accumulation seasonality. Nature, 479. 6 pp. 10.1038/nature10613

Masson-Delmotte, V., Buiron, D., Ekaykin, A., Frezzotti, M., Gallee, H., Jouzel, J., Krinner, G., Landais, A., Motoyama, H., Oerter, H., Pol, K., Pollard, D., Ritz, C., Schlosser, E., Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Sodemann, H., Stenni, B., Uemura, R., Vimeux, F.. (2011) A comparison of the present and last interglacial periods in six Antarctic ice cores. Climate of the Past, 7. 397-423. 10.5194/cp-7-397-2011

Masson-Delmotte, V., Braconnot, P., Hoffman, G., Jouzel, J., Kageyama, M., Landais, A., Lejeune, Q., Risi, C., Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Sjolte, J., Swingedouw, D., Vinther, B.. (2011) Sensitivity of interglacial Greenland temperature and delta 18 O: ice core data, orbital and increased CO2 climate simulations.. Climate of the Past, 7. 1041-1059. 10.5194/cp-7-1041-2011

Levine, J.G., Wolff, E.W., Jones, A.E. ORCIDORCID record for A.E. Jones, Sime, L.C. ORCIDORCID record for L.C. Sime, Valdes, P.J., Archibald, A.T., Carver, G.D., Warwick, N.J., Pyle, J.A.. (2011) Reconciling the changes in atmospheric-methane sources and sinks between the Last Glacial Maximum and the pre-industrial era. Geophysical Research Letters, 38. 6 pp. 10.1029/2011GL049545

Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Hindmarsh, Richard C.A. ORCIDORCID record for Richard C.A. Hindmarsh, Corr, Hugh. (2011) Automated processing to derive dip angles of englacial radar reflectors in ice sheets. Journal of Glaciology, 57. 260-266.

Levine, James G., Wolff, Eric W., Jones, Anna E. ORCIDORCID record for Anna E. Jones, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime. (2011) The role of atomic chlorine in glacial-interglacial changes in the carbon-13 content of atmospheric methane. Geophysical Research Letters, 38. 6 pp. 10.1029/2010GL046122

2010

Abram, Nerilie J., Thomas, Elizabeth R. ORCIDORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas, McConnell, Joseph R., Mulvaney, Robert ORCIDORCID record for Robert Mulvaney, Bracegirdle, Thomas J. ORCIDORCID record for Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Aristarain, Alberto J.. (2010) Ice core evidence for a 20th century decline in sea ice in the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115. 9 pp. 10.1029/2010JD014644

Wolff, E.W., Barbante, C., Becagli, S., Bigler, M., Boutron, C.F., Castellano, E., de Angelis, M., Federer, U., Fischer, H., Fundel, F., Hansson, M., Hutterli, Manuel, Jonsell, U., Karlin, T., Kaufmann, P., Lambert, F., Littot, G.C., Mulvaney, Robert ORCIDORCID record for Robert Mulvaney, Rothlisberger, Regine, Ruth, U., Severi, M., Siggard-Andersen, M.L., Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Steffensen, J.P., Stocker, T.F., Traversi, R., Twarloh, B., Udisti, R., Wagenbach, D., Wegner, A.. (2010) Changes in environment over the last 800,000 years from chemical analysis of the EPICA Dome C ice core. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29. 285-295. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.06.013

Hodgson, Dominic A. ORCIDORCID record for Dominic A. Hodgson, Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime. (2010) Palaeoclimate Southern westerlies and CO2. Nature Geoscience, 3. 666-667. 10.1038/ngeo970

2009

Tindall, J. C., Valdes, P.J., Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime. (2009) Stable water isotopes in HadCM3: isotopic signature of El Nino-Southern Oscillation and the tropical amount effect. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114. 12 pp. 10.1029/2008JD010825

Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Marshall, Gareth J. ORCIDORCID record for Gareth J. Marshall, Mulvaney, Robert ORCIDORCID record for Robert Mulvaney, Thomas, Elizabeth R. ORCIDORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas. (2009) Interpreting temperature information from ice cores along the Antarctic Peninsula: ERA40 analysis. Geophysical Research Letters, 36. 5 pp. 10.1029/2009GL038982

Sime, Louise ORCIDORCID record for Louise Sime, Wolff, Eric, Oliver, K.I.C., Tindall, J.C.. (2009) Evidence for warmer interglacials in East Antarctic ice cores. Nature, 462. 342-346. 10.1038/nature08564

2008

Rothlisberger, R., Mudelsee, M., Bigler, M., de Angelis, M., Fischer, H., Hansson, M., Lambert, F., Masson-Delmotte, V., Sime, L. ORCIDORCID record for L. Sime, Udisti, R., Wolff, E.W.. (2008) The Southern Hemisphere at glacial terminations: insights from the Dome C ice core. Climate of the Past, 4. 345-356.

Sime, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Tindall, Julia C., Wolff, Eric W., Connolley, William M., Valdes, Paul J.. (2008) Antarctic isotopic thermometer during a CO2 forced warming event. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113. 16 pp. doi:10.1029/2008JD010395

Some links to current major funded projects that I lead or co-lead:

EU-H2020 Major European Grant: Tipping Points in the Earths System: Led by Dr Peter Ditlevsen (8 mill EUR in total): WP lead Louise Sime  (680K EUR to BAS)

AHRC: research grant: Materializing Data, Embodying Climate Change. Led by Professor Tom Corby: University of the Arts London. AH/S00369X/1 (685K), co-led by Dr Louise Sime. [LINK?]

ERC advanced grant: WACSWAIN. (3000K) Led by Prof Eric Wolff; co-investigator Dr Louise Sime.

NERC standard grant: Retreat of Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice, 130 000 to 116 000 years BP . Led by Dr Louise Sime: BAS (360K)

NSFGEO-NERC standard grant: Paleoclimate signatures of the climate response to West Antarctic ice sheet collapse. Joint US and UK project. Led by Dr Louise Sime: BAS (202K); and Prof Eric Steig; University of Washington (300K).

 

Links to major funded projects now finished, that I led or co-led:

NERC standard grant: Late Quaternary changes in the Westerly Winds over the Southern Ocean. Led by Dr Dom Hodgson, BAS (650K)l; co-led by Dr Louise Sime.

NERC new investigator grant: The Age Structure of the Greenland ice sheet from Airborne Radar Data (ASGARD). Led by Dr Louise Sime: BAS (79K)

 

 

 

Some recent invites:

2022 EGU: Invited talk: Diversity in Interglacials – past warm periods.

2022 DEEPICE FINSE winter school lecturer: https://deepice.cnrs.fr/deepice-events/

2021 Glasgow COP26:  Invited panel member: Climate Risk & Tipping Points in the Polar Regions (Panel + Q&A)

2021 University of the Arts COP26 event speaker/panellist: Ask a Climate Scientist: COP, Science, Culture and Politics

 

Some press coverage of our groups work:

The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/19/sea-levels-could-rise-bysix-to-nine-metres-over-time-new-study-warns

The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/west-antarctic-ice-sheet-sea-level-rise-global-warming-climate-change-british-antarctic-survey-a7195481.html

The Mail Online: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3743104/Antarcticas-sea-ice-said-vulnerable-sudden-retreat.html

The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/08/16/world/europe/16reuters-climatechange-antarctica.html?ref=world&_r=0