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ESA’s Sentinel-1 mission has revealed exactly how fast Greenland’s glaciers are flowing into the Arctic Ocean. The research, published in The Cryosphere, used Sentinel-1 data to show that Greenland’s largest glacier has actually slowed down by 10% since 2012, but…
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Monitoring Antarctica from space has revealed how its ice is being lost to the oceans, providing crucial insight into the continent’s response to a warming climate. Scientists from CPOM the University of California San Diego and University of Maryland reviewed…
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Research attention score: Ice losses from Antarctica have increased global sea levels by 7.6 mm since 1992, with two fifths of this rise (3.0 mm) coming in the last five years alone. The findings are from a major climate assessment…
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A new map of Antarctica, available to download from today, is providing the most accurate three-dimensional view of the continent to date. This latest digital elevation model (DEM), developed by the UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) and…
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A new project launched by the Institute for Research in Schools (IRIS) is offering students the chance to contribute to scientific understanding of the polar regions. Funded by the UK Space Agency, MELT will allow schools to monitor changes at…
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Antarctica’s great ice sheet is losing ground as it is eroded by warm ocean water circulating beneath its floating edge, a new study has found. Research by CPOM at the University of Leeds has produced the first complete map of…
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Are you an ambitious scientist looking for your next challenge? Do you want to further your career with CPOM? Do you have a PhD (or close to obtaining) in a quantitative subject, and the skills to develop our satellite altimetry…
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Join CPOM’s Anna Hogg and Paralympian Lauren Steadman in taking the Space to Earth View Challenge: Swim, bike or run the distance to orbiting satellites 717 km above the Earth
A new paper in Advances in Space Research, led by Rachel Tilling, provides a first look at 2017 Arctic sea ice volume from CryoSat. Using data from CPOM’s sea ice processor, which has been under constant development at CPOM since the…
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