Research projects

Understanding Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) and its affect on global ocean circulation.

Major changes are occurring across the North Atlantic climate system: in the ocean and atmosphere temperatures and circulation, in sea ice thickness and extent, and in key atmospheric constituents such …

The aim of this study is to investigate whether a technique developed to measure the basal meltrate of ice shelves can be used to monitor groundwater in arid and semi-arid …

Overview Climate change is proceeding faster at the poles than any other region, with sea-ice retreating, glaciers melting and biotic communities being invaded by sub-polar species. These changes are affecting …

Overview While climate models suggest Antarctic sea ice extent should also reduce in response to rising atmospheric CO2 concentraions, satellite observations reveal that during 1979-2015 the opposite was in fact …

Dynamics of the Orkney Passage Outflow (DynOPO) is a collaboration between BAS, the University of Southampton and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). The project aims to investigate the flow of …

iStar-B strives to better understand ocean and ice interaction, processes and variability

iStar-B studies ocean circulation and melting beneath the ice shelves of the south-eastern Amundsen Sea

Antarctic ice-loss research capability

Understanding the Ocean Regulation of Climate by Heat, Carbon Sequestration and Transports

Earth System indicators in Antarctica

The European Space Agency (ESA) Southern Ocean-Ice Shelf Interactions (SO-ICE) project is a collaborative research project bringing together the ESA Polar+ Ice Shelves and 4D Antarctica projects, and the European …

TEA_COSI assesses Arctic Sea-ice which has an important impact on currents and ocean circulations around the globe

Reliable projections of the Earth’s climate are at the heart of scientific support for international efforts to address global change. There is increasing recognition that reliable projections require that physical …