To celebrate this milestone, a workshop-conference-hackathon-party was organized. The goal of the event was to showcase how Parcels is used by different researchers, and learn from each other.
In the final week of the summer holidays, twelve MSc students and IMAU assistant professor Lu Zhou explored Grenoble and Montpellier during the yearly Climate Physics excursion.
The study, published on 14 November in Science Advances, demonstrates how freshwater from the south can slow down the weakening of this crucial ocean current.
Normally acting as a sponge for refreezing meltwater, the snowy layer covering the ice sheet in Greenland is important for the overall fate of the ice sheet, but it’s changing in ways researchers currently do not fully understand.
By comparing the positions of the fifteen largest political parties, ocean scientists aim to show voters what each party plans for our seas and the ocean.
Researchers from Utrecht University’s Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU) played an important role in the case study of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the Subpolar Gyre, ocean systems that strongly influence how heat is distributed across the planet.
“In the past, there were periods much warmer than today,” says Anna von der Heydt. “By looking at what happened then, we can learn what might lie ahead.”
