SOFIA scientific contributions

Peer-reviewed publications based on the SOFIA freshwater forcing and/or suite of model simulations

• Pauling, A. G., Smith, I. J., Martin, T., Ridley, J. K., Stevens, D. P., Thomas, M., Beadling, R. L., Danek, C., Hattermann, T., Li, Q., Marshall, J., Muilwijk, M., Purich, A., and Swart, N. C. (2026) Antarctic sea ice response to meltwater due to Antarctic ice sheet mass loss in a multi-model ensemble, EGUsphere [preprint]. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-658

• Zhang, X., Purich, A., Deser, C., and Pauling, A. (2026). Robust yet diverse tropical responses to Antarctic meltwater across models. Geophysical Research Letters, 53, e2025GL120291. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL120291

• Muilwijk, M., Hattermann, T., Beadling, R. L., Swart, N. C., Nummelin, A., Guo, C., Chandler, D. M., Langebroek, P. M., Zhou, S., Dutrieux, P., Chen, J.-J., Danek, C., England, M. H., Griffies, S. M., Haumann, F. A., Jüling, A., Jouet, O., Li, Q., Martin, T., Marshall, J., Pauling, A. G., Purich, A., Song, Z., Smith, I. J., Thomas, M., Trombini, I., van der Linden, E. C., and Xu, X. (2026). Large regional differences in Antarctic ice shelf mass loss from Southern Ocean warming and meltwater feedbacks, The Cryosphere, 20, 1087–1117, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-1087-2026

• Mistry, A., Lunt, D., and Ren, X. (2025). Global climate system response to SOFIA Antarctic meltwater in HadCM3-M2.1, The Cryosphere, 19, 6989–7012, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-6989-2025

• Xu, X., Martin, T., Beadling, R., Liu, J., Bischof, S., Hattermann, T., Huo, W., Li, Q., Marshall, J., Muilwijk, M., Pauling, A. G., Purich, A., Smith, I. J., Swart, N., and Thomas, M. (2025). Robustness and mechanisms of the atmospheric response over the Southern Ocean to idealized freshwater input around Antarctica. Geophys. Res. Lett., 52, e2024GL113734. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL113734

• Kaufman, Z., Wilson, E., Purich, A., Beadling, R., and Li, Y. (2025). The impact of underestimated Southern Ocean freshening on simulated historical sea surface temperature trends. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL112639. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL112639

• Pauling, A. G., Smith, I. J., Ridley, J. K., Martin, T., Thomas, M., and Stevens, D. P. (2025). Impacts of Antarctic ice mass loss on New Zealand climate. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL111047. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111047

• Chen, J.-J., Swart, N. C., Beadling, R., Cheng, X., Hattermann, T., Jüling, A., et al. (2023). Reduced deep convection and bottom water formation due to Antarctic meltwater in a multi-model ensemble. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL106492. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106492

• Swart, N. C., Martin, T., Beadling, R., Chen, J.-J., Danek, C., England, M. H., Farneti, R., Griffies, S. M., Hattermann, T., Hauck, J., Haumann, F. A., Jüling, A., Li, Q., Marshall, J., Muilwijk, M., Pauling, A. G., Purich, A., Smith, I. J., and Thomas, M. (2023). The Southern Ocean Freshwater Input from Antarctica (SOFIA) Initiative: scientific objectives and experimental design. Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 7289–7309, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-7289-2023

SOFIA contributions to international conferences and workshops

• KITP The Future of Earth’s Polar Regions, Santa Barbara, USA, 2025, Zhang, X., Purich, A., Deser, C., Pauling, A. G.: Robust yet diverse Southern Ocean teleconnection from Antarctic Meltwater (invited talk).

• CFMIP-CloudSense meeting 2025, Exeter, UK: Zhang, X., Purich, A., Deser, C., Pauling, A. G., Intermodal spread of Southern Ocean teleconnection from Antarctic meltwater depends on the strength of low cloud feedback (poster).

• EGU 2025, Vienna, Austria
  • Jouet, O., Hauck, J., Danek, C., Haumann, A., Hattermann, T., Muilwijk, M., Pauling, A. G., Swart, N. C., and Völker, C., Impact of additional freshwater around Antarctica on the Southern Ocean carbon cycle: an inter-model comparison, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-2563, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-2563, 2025. (oral, abstract).
• Norwegian Antarctic Seminar, Tromso, Norway (May 2024)
  • Muilwijk, M., Regional Ocean Responses to Coordinated Multi-Model Meltwater Perturbation Experiments: Insights from the SOFIA Initiative (oral, abstract)
• AGU 2024, Washington D.C., USA
  • **Xu, X., Martin, T., Beadling, R., Liu, J., Bischoff, S., Atmospheric adjustment to idealized freshwater forcing from Antarctica in a multi-model ensemble. (poster)
• EGU 2024, Vienna, Austria
  • Pauling, A.G., N. Swart, T. Martin, R. Beadling, J.-J. Chen, et al., Sea ice and climate impacts from Antarctic ice-mass loss in the SOFIA multi-model ensemble (oral, abstract)
  • Xu, X., T. Martin and R. Beadling, On the atmospheric response to idealized freshwater input around Antarctica (oral, abstract)
  • Jüling, A., E. Lambert, P. Le Sager, and S. Drijfhout, Response of EC-Earth3 to Antarctic meltwater (oral, abstract)
  • Farneti, R., Southern Ocean response and sensitivity to idealized freshwater perturbation experiments (poster, abstract)
  • Martin, T., J. Rhein, M. Ödalen, and M. Zeller, Spatial distribution of Antarctic meltwater governs Southern Ocean deep convection and shelf warming feedback (poster, abstract)
• OSM 2024, New Orleans, USA
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• IUGG 2023, Berlin, Germany
  • Swart, N., and T. Martin, The climate response to Antarctic meltwater in a multi-model ensemble (verbal, abstract)
  • Pauling, A.G., M. Thomas, I.J. Smith, J.K. Ridley, and T. Martin, Impact of Antarctic Ice-mass loss on sea ice and climate in a multi-model experiment (verbal)
  • Smith, I.J., A.G. Pauling, C.M. Bitz, K. Lilly, P. Langhorne, and C.L. Hulbe, Antarctic sea ice area response to freshwater under past and future greenhouse gas scenarios (verbal)
• IGS sea ice symposium 2023, Bremerhaven, Germnay
  • Pauling, A.G., M. Thomas, I.J. Smith, J.K. Ridley, and T. Martin, Sea ice and climate impacts from Antarctic ice-mass loss in a multi-model experiment. Verbal presentation (verbal)
  • Thomas, M., J. Ridley, I.J. Smith, D.P. Stevens, P.R. Holland, and S. Mackie, Future response of Antarctic continental shelf properties to ice sheet melting and calving (verbal)
• FRISP 2023, Stalheim, Norway
  • Smith, I., From observations to climate modelling: what is the influence of ice shelves on sea ice and climate? (verbal)