The 2025 CANARI Annual Meeting

This year’s CANARI Annual Meeting – our 4th so far – was held during 16-18 September 2025 and was hosted by our colleagues at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge. We met for three days to share project updates, science highlights, posters, lively breakout discussions, and of course, an important chance to catch up with colleagues in person.

This year, 20 science talks covered highlights from the latest CANARI science, including new avenues of research utilising the latest machine learning techniques to better understand trends and variability in the climate system, advances in impact modelling techniques including new applications of UK flood and groundwater models, and evaluations of the new CANARI Large Ensemble simulations covering the coupled Arctic state, the AMOC and high-impact mid-latitude storms.

Discussions continued throughout the meeting with chats around the science posters and 8 dedicated breakout sessions including detailed discussions on potential future modelling activities within the programme, to blue skies thinking around new research topics and avenues for collaboration.

We rounded off the meeting by expanding last year’s hands-on plenary session activity where we tasked our scientists to work in small cross-cutting groups to sketch out their views of the most important physical climate linkages between the Arctic and the UK, and to present back to the meeting their case including, crucially, which linkages are currently most uncertain.

Over the coming year, we will be drafting synthesis papers that consolidate our insights into the key research findings and underlying drivers of Arctic change, as well as the dynamics of the North Atlantic atmosphere and ocean.

We are looking forward to the next year of CANARI science!