CRiceS

The CRiceS project concludes: successfully advancing understanding of polar processes and their role in climate

After four years of international collaboration, the CRiceS project has officially come to an end.

Funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme, CRiceS has brought together scientists from across Europe and beyond to better understand how the polar regions, including sea ice and snow, interact with the atmosphere and ocean, and why this matters for polar and global climate.

What did CRiceS achieve?

Through observations, modelling, and close collaborations, CRiceS has helped to:

- Improve how climate models represent polar processes and feedbacks

 - Deepen our understanding of how Arctic change affects the rest of the planet

- Explore the role of clouds and airborne particles (aerosols) in shaping polar climate

- Strengthen connections between field measurements and climate modelling

These advances have aimed to help scientists make more accurate predictions about future polar and global climate change.

Explore and use our results

A key goal of CRiceS has been to make its science openly available. As the project concludes, all of its outputs remain accessible to everyone:

📄 Scientific publications sharing the project’s findings

📊 Datasets and model results, freely available through our Zenodo community

🧪 Policy briefs and briefings that can be reused by researchers and beyond

We encourage you to explore these resources, use them in your own work, and share them widely.

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