Final project report

You can find a summary of the project results in this report:

Massonnet, F., D. Docquier, B. Richaud, J. Sauer, S. Opfergelt & RESIST Consortium (2026). RESIST: Recent Arctic and Antarctic sea ice lows: same causes, same impacts? Final Report (Version v2). Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23374856.

Peer-reviewed publications

Directly linked to RESIST (8):

• Richaud, B., F. Massonnet, T. Fichefet, D. Topál, A. Barthélemy, D. Docquier (2026). Anatomy of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice lows in an ocean–sea ice model. The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-791-2026.
• Feba, F., H. Goosse, P.-Y. Barriat, F. Massonnet (2026). The oceanic response to winds in the Antarctic sea ice loss at the end of the 1970s. Environmental Research: Climate, https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ae7597.
• Docquier, D., F. Massonnet, B. Richaud, T. Fichefet, H. Goosse, B. Mezzina, D. Topál, S. Vannitsem (2025). Drivers of summer Antarctic sea-ice extent at interannual time scale in CMIP6 large ensembles based on information flow. Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-025-07878-3.
• Sauer, J., F. Massonnet, G. Zappa, F. Ragone (2025). Ensemble design for seasonal climate predictions: studying extreme Arctic sea ice lows with a rare event algorithm, Earth System Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-16-683-2025.
• Docquier, D., F. Massonnet, F. Ragone, A. Sticker, T. Fichefet, S. Vannitsem (2024). Drivers of summer Arctic sea-ice extent at interannual time scale in CMIP6 large ensembles revealed by information flow. Scientific Reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-76056-y.
• Mezzina, B., H. Goosse, F. Klein, A. Barthélemy, F. Massonnet (2024). The role of atmospheric conditions in the Antarctic sea ice extent summer minima. The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3825-2024.
• Sauer, J., J. Demaeyer, G. Zappa, F. Massonnet, F. Ragone (2024). Extremes of summer Arctic sea ice reduction investigated with a rare event algorithm. Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-024-07160-y.
• Wang, J., F. Massonnet, H. Goosse, H. Luo, A. Barthélemy, Q. Yang (2024). Synergistic atmosphere-ocean-ice influences have driven the 2023 all-time Antarctic sea-ice record low. Communications Earth & Environment, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01523-3.

Indirectly linked to RESIST (10):

• Osy, C., S. Opfergelt, A. Druel, F. Massonnet (2026). Evolution and controls of the large-scale surface freeze-back onset in Siberian permafrost regions with the ERA5-Land reanalysis, Glacies, https://doi.org/10.3390/glacies3040013.
• Athanase, M., R. Gou, E. E. Köhn, B. Richaud, A. and Simon (2026). Polar processes set Arctic marine heatwaves apart. Communications Earth & Environment, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03735-1.
• Dong, X., F. Massonnet, Y. Nie, B. Richaud, Y. Gao, L. Hoffman, Y. Wang, Q. Yang (2026). Incorporating Subsurface Oceanic Variables Improves Seasonal Antarctic Sea Ice Prediction With Neural Networks. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JD045470.
• Spira, T., Dufour, C. O., Frenger, I., Richaud, B., Bennett, M. G., Bitz, C. M., Bracegirdle, T. J., Castellani, G., Challet, F., Chidichimo, M. P., Cocetta, F., Diamond, R., Feba, F., Gülk, B., Guarino, M.-V., Gupta, M., Haumann, F. A., Heil, P., Hoffmann-Abdi, K., … Solomon, A. (2026). No longer polar opposites: The Arctic and the Antarctic are converging towards a seasonally dominated sea-ice regime. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-25-0340.1.
• Goosse, H., S. Libera, A. C. Naveira Garabato, B. Richaud, A. Silvano, M. Vancoppenolle (2025). Winter sea ice edge shaped by Antarctic Circumpolar Current pathways. The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-5763-2025.
• Sticker, A., F. Massonnet, T. Fichefet, P. DeRepentigny, A. Jahn, D. Docquier, C. Wyburn-Powell, D. Quint, E. Shivers, M. Ortiz (2025). Seasonality and scenario dependence of rapid Arctic sea ice loss events in CMIP6 simulations. The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-3259-2025.
• Vannitsem, S., D. Docquier, S. Wauthy, M. Corkill, J.-L. Tison (2025). Sources of low-frequency δ18O variability in coastal ice cores from Dronning Maud Land (Antarctica). Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-024-07514-6.
• Bushuk, M., Ali, S., Bailey, D. A., Bao, Q., Batté, L., Bhatt, U. S., Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E., Blockley, E., Cawley, G., Chi, J., Counillon, F., Coulombe, P. G., Cullather, R. I., Diebold, F. X., Dirkson, A., Exarchou, E., Göbel, M., Gregory, W., Guemas, V., … , Massonnet, F., …, Zhang, Y. (2024). Predicting September Arctic Sea Ice: A Multimodel Seasonal Skill Comparison. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0163.1.
• Dörr, J., M. Arthun, D. Docquier, C. Li, T. Eldevik (2024). Causal links between sea-ice variability in the Barents-Kara Seas and oceanic and atmospheric drivers. Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108195.
• Vannitsem, S., C. A. Pires, D. Docquier (2024). Causal dependencies and Shannon entropy budget: Analysis of a reduced order atmospheric model. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4805.