Brice Noël

CR Cryospheric Sciences

The 2025 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Brice Noël for outstanding research in the field of the surface mass budget of ice caps and ice sheets, based on regional climate modelling.

Brice Noël is an outstanding early career scientist who's work has provided fundamental insights in the changing surface mass balance of ice caps and ice sheets.

He uses the regional climate model RACMO to asses the surface mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet, and expanded this assessment by statistical downscaling the balance components from the coarse climate model resolution to a much higher resolution. This led to identifying a tipping point in the mass loss of Greenland marginal glaciers and ice caps. His efforts led to many subsequent discoveries on glacial mass loss in Arctic Canada, Greenland, Svalbard, and Iceland and enhanced melt products for the Antarctic ice sheet. By applying the downscaling technique directly to Earth system models, he was also able to predict warming thresholds for unmitigated Greenland ice sheet mass loss in the 23rd century. The data of these efforts is used by numerous researchers for very diverse applications, leading to numerous exciting collaborations, discussions, and impactful publications. This shows that Noël not only is an excellent scientist, but also very pleasant and helpful person and a worthy awardee of the EGU Division on Cryospheric Sciences’ Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award.