research overview
- Dr. Lenaerts is principal investigator and leader of the Ice Sheets and Climate lab and Assistant Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder (USA). He is an ice sheet and climate scientist with a specific interest in polar climate, snow-atmosphere and ice-ocean interactions on meso- to global scale. Jan's main tools are climate models, evaluated with remote sensing and in-situ climate observations. He is co-chair of the Land Ice Working Group of the Community Earth System Model (CESM), and editorial board member of the scientific journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment.