CPOM researchers Victoria Lee and Tony Payne have co-authored, alongside Robin S. Smith (NCAS), an article on Atmospheric Blocking and Greenland Melt for the UK Earth system modelling project (UKESM) July newsletter. Atmospheric blocking occurs when near-stationary high-pressure systems divert…
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Time magazine’s special issue ‘One Last Chance’ released on the 20th July featured a stunning visualisation of climate change data on the front cover entitled ‘Currents’. The artwork, by Maine artist Jill Pelto, included a graph of ice sheet loss…
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A comprehensive annual climate overview, on which CPOM researchers were co-authors, has been released by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) containing invaluable insight into the state of our climate in 2019 to help build up a long-term picture of how…
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Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice faster than in the 1990s and are both tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s worst-case climate warming scenario. As a result, this will lead to an extra 17 centimetres of sea level…
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Seven areas of fast-flowing ice on the Antarctic Peninsula have been formally named after Earth observation satellites, following a request by CPOM scientist Anna Hogg. Dramatic changes in the shape of the Antarctic ice sheet have become emblematic of the…
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In only 25 years, ocean melting has caused ice thinning to spread across West Antarctica so rapidly that 24% of its glacier ice is now affected, according to a new study. By combining 25 years of European Space Agency satellite…
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Tom Slater, a final year PhD student at CPOM Leeds, is being presented with the Piers Sellers prize for exceptional PhD research. The prize, awarded annually by the Priestley International Centre for Climate, will be presented as part of an…
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A recently-launched satellite mission is now proving a valuable addition to Antarctic monitoring efforts, according to work published this week in The Cryosphere. The study, carried out by CPOM researchers alongside European Space Agency (ESA) and industry partners, shows the…
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By David Schroeder, CPOM researcher, University of Reading Reproduced from the Weather and Climate @ Reading blog Climate model projections are our best approach to make predictions about future sea ice in both hemispheres for the whole 21st century. Given…
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Congratulations to CPOM’s Rachel Tilling who has just been announced as the 2018 Women in Aerospace-Europe Young Professional Award Winner! This recognises her excellent work on Arctic sea ice quantification using satellite altimetry. You can read the WIA-Europe citation below,…
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