Antarctic ice shelves and their links with the climate system – Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR)

The Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) is the highest university degree in France, and it is usually required to be the official main supervisor of a PhD student or to become professor. Here is the manuscript that I wrote for my HDR in 2024. I share it as an example for future HDR applicants, and because the second part (and maybe the third part) can be used as a review on ice shelves.

In the first part (p. 11–15), I briefly sumarise my postdoctoral research (Indo-Pacific climate variability, tropical cyclones,...)

The second part (p. 17–42) is a review of the history of ice shelves, from their discovery to their disintegration in Antarctica, with additional parts dedicated to the Arctic ice shelves as well as ice shelves from past climates. A version of this part in French is available on https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13748961

The third part (p. 43–62) is an overview of the work that I lead, supervised, or to which I contributed on Antarctic ice shelves, or more generally on the links between the Antarctic Ice Sheet and the climate system.

The fourth part provides ideas for future work.

This manuscript should be cited as:

Jourdain, N. C. (2024). Antarctic ice shelves and their links with the climate system – Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR). University Grenoble Alpes & Zenodo. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.13830661