Land-ATmosphere Interactions in Cold Environments (LATICE)

The research group LATICE will bring a focus on cold-regions exchange processes within Earth System Sciences as an interdisciplinary initiative of collaborative research and education.

LATICE aims to advance the knowledge base concerning land atmosphere interactions and their role in controlling climate variability and climate change at high northern latitudes through:

• Improving parameterizations of processes in earth system models controlling the interactions and feedbacks between the land (snow, ice, permafrost, soil and vegetation) and the atmosphere at high latitudes, including the boreal, alpine and arctic zone.
• Assessing the influence of climate and land cover changes on water and energy fluxes.
• Integrating remote earth observations with in-situ data and suitable models to allow studies of finer-scale processes governing land-atmosphere interactions.
• Addressing observational challenges through the development of novel observational products and networks.

LATICE is recognized as a strategic research area by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oslo.