Antarctic Atmospheric River Workshop

Despite their relatively recent emergence in the minds of polar scientists, atmospheric rivers have quickly become crucial element of Antarctic meteorological and climatological discussions. The idea behind this workshop is to gather this budding interest and see where our research currently stands. Since just 2014, atmospheric rivers have been identified as a sub-tropical link to the Antarctic continent and create extreme atmospheric conditions that are largely consequential to surface melt, snowfall, and ice-shelf stability. Still, as more researchers from various backgrounds have entered the atmospheric river fray, the scientific questions have grown to include representation of atmospheric rivers in model simulations, retrieving the atmospheric river signal isotopic signature from ice cores and direct measurements, and understanding their meteorological origins.