Louise Sime
- British Antarctic Survey
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- UK
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Louise Sime
I am a permanent NERC research scientist, working at the British Antarctic Survey in the Ice Coring group. Most of my research focuses on understanding ice core observations by using climate models. This joint observation-model approach can help us understand past climate.
Stable water isotopes: deuterium and oxygen-18 in ice record represent the key long-term (2000 to 800 000 year) temperature record. I run the stable water isotope enable Met Office Hadley Centre HadAM3 model to help interpret these isotopes records in ice cores. The isotope code was written by Julia Tindall in conjunction with Paul Valdes at Bristol University. I also spend some time developing new methods to help us understand: where to drill cores; how to sample the cores (in prep); and what we gain from having more than one ice core.
A recent research highlight looked at interglacial climates in East Antarctic Ice Cores.
Please find me at Louise Sime (lsim@[remove]bas.ac.uk).