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Yvan Romé

Yvan Romé

  • Position: Research Fellow
  • Areas of expertise: Climate-ice interactions, Climate modelling, Ice sheet modelling, Palaeoclimatology, Physical oceaonography, Quaternay, Abrupt climate changes, Sea level rise
  • Email: Y.M.Rome@leeds.ac.uk
  • Location: 11.06 Priestley Building
  • Website: ORCID

Profile

I am a research fellow specialised in past and future physical climate changes. My work involves using general circulation climate models (FAMOUS, HadCM3, UKESM), ice sheet models (Glimmer, BISICLES), and coupled climate-ice sheet models (FAMOUS-BISICLES) to explore the mechanisms and consequences of climate-ice interactions. My primary expertise lies in Quaternary abrupt climate changes and the last deglaciation. Through my research, I aim to better understand past climate changes to constrain future climate changes, with a particular focus on the connections between ice sheet melting and calving, changes in the overturning circulation, and sea-level changes.

At the University of Leeds, I am a member of the Climate-Ice research group led by Dr. Ruza Ivanovic and Dr. Lauren Gregoire, as well as the Physical Climate Change group, the Palaeo@Leeds group, the Quaternary group, the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science (ICAS), and the Earth Surface Science Institute (ESSI).

Research interests

  • Investigating climate-ice interactions, including ocean circulation, ice sheet melting and calving, iceberg discharges, and sea-level changes.
  • Understanding the mechanisms driving Quaternary abrupt climate changes and their implications for future climate, with a particular interest in Dansgaard-Oeschger events.
  • Modelling ice dynamics and ice sheet instabilities.
  • Constraining past climate changes by comparing model outputs with palaeo-reconstructions.
  • Developing numerical tools for climate and ice sheet modelling, visualization, and analysis.
  • Providing a mathematical framework for studying physical climate changes.
  • Research communication, outreach and cartography.
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Qualifications

  • PhD, University of Leeds
  • MSc, Ecole Centrale Paris