About IPERL

Overview

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The Polar environment is an important component of the global earth system and has experienced dramatic changes in a warming world. The changes in climate in polar regions and their possible influences on and feedback by processes in the rest of the globe have raised great challenges for scientific research. Polar regions have been the least observed and understood regions. To improve understanding and prediction of polar climate changes, and associated extreme events and global impacts, a number of collaborative international initiatives for polar climate research have been carried out and planned, such as International Polar Year (IPY), Year of Polar Prediction（YOPP），The Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC).To take advantages of the growing support to polar research in China, and existing facilities and great expertise in world-class polar research institutes, the research of this joint lab is focused on the following cutting-edge research frontiers:

1) polar extreme weather and disastrous ice conditions;

2) an Arctic high resolution atmospheric reanalysis system;

3) global and polar ocean circulation;

4) intactions between oceans and ice shelves;

5)polar ocean biology and ecosystem;

6) polar ocean sediments and long-term environmental change in polar regions

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This joint lab consists of Chinese researchers from Hohai University, Nanjing University, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Polar Research Institute of China, Fudan University, and Second Institute of Oceanography. The international collaborators are from British Antarctic Survey (UK), University of East Anglia (UK), Newcastle University (UK), Bangor University (UK), and University of Alaska Fairbanks (USA), and further international collaborations will continue to be developed.‍

Our vision

To be an international research center for polar environmental science, facilitating international collaborations, addressing cutting-edge scientific issues, and training the next generation of talented polar scientists.

Our mission

• Establish a collaborative venture for frontier research on polar science;

• Promote international collaborations with world leading research institutes;

• Facilitate joint research for scientists from different disciplines; 

• Train young talented scientists for future polar environmental science.

Objectives

• To build capability to explore the polar extremes to better serve society;

• To improve understanding of polar influences on the rest of the globe;

• To become a world recognized international polar research center.

Strategic Approach

• Building and using sophisticated numerical tools to simulate the complex polar system and its global linkage;

• Collecting and assimilating observational data and generating long-term high resolution polar reanalysis data;

• Coordinating and participating in joint domestic and international polar observational projects.

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