Kristof Van Tricht

CL Climate: Past, Present & Future

The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Kristof Van Tricht for the poster/PICO entitled:

Clouds enhance Greenland ice sheet mass loss (Van Tricht, K.; Gorodetskaya, I. V.; L'Ecuyer, T.; Lenaerts J. T. M.; Lhermitte, S.; Noel, B.; Turner, D. D.; van den Broeke, M. R.; van Lipzig, N. P. M.)

Click here to download the poster/PICO file.

Kristof Van Tricht is a PhD student at the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium, as a member of the Regional Climate Studies group. His main research focuses on understanding the role of clouds in the climate of Greenland, with a specific emphasis on integrating satellite remote sensing, ground-based observations and climate model simulations. The poster presented at EGU 2015 describes how Greenland-wide satellite cloud observations show that clouds strongly enhance Greenland ice sheet surface energy input, thereby contributing to ice sheet melt, mass loss and subsequent global sea level rise.

Publication resulting from the award

Van Tricht, K., Lhermitte, S., Gorodetskaya, I. V., and van Lipzig, N. P. M.: Improving satellite-retrieved surface radiative fluxes in polar regions using a smart sampling approach, The Cryosphere, 10, 2379–2397, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2379-2016, 2016.