Satellites can now measure the thickness of Arctic sea ice in the summer months for the first time, thanks to a new study involving UCL researchers and CPOM associates, Professor Julienne Stroeve and Dr Michel Tsamados. Until now, satellites could only…
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The UKRI have awarded £47M to NERC research centres to address six critical environmental science challenges facing the UK, including climate change mitigation strategies, coastal flooding & erosion, and extreme weather. CPOM is to collaborate on 3 projects BIOPOLE, CANARI & TerraFIRMA….
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The following blog was written by PhD researcher, Amy Swiggs based at the University of Leeds. Andy Shepherd, Inès Otosaka, Anne Braakmann-Folgmann and I travelled to Greenland in Spring 2022 for the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) CRYO2ICE campaign. The campaign…
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As of January 2022, ESA has started releasing new CryoSat-2 Thematic Products, dedicated to five distinct areas: Sea Ice, Land Ice, Polar Oceans, Coastal Oceans and Inland Waters. Developed within the frame of the CryoSat-2 Thematic Products (Cryo-TEMPO) activity, these…
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Full article can be found at CarbonBrief. The 10 climate papers most featured in the media in 2021 includes CPOM’s Cryosphere review paper of “Earth’s ice imbalance” led by CPOM scientist Dr Tom Slater based at the University of Leeds….
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Article first published by the University of Leeds – 19.01.22 Scientists monitoring the giant A68A Antarctic iceberg from space reveal that a huge amount of fresh water was released as it melted around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia….
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ESA – World’s ice is melting faster than ever As global temperatures increase, the melting of the massive ice sheets that blanket Antarctica and Greenland has accelerated, making a significant contribution to sea-level rise. In total, Earth is losing around…
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Article first published by the University of Leeds – 02.11.21 Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland to become more frequent and more intense over the past 40 years according to new research, raising sea levels…
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A glacier in West Antarctica has been formally named after the city of Glasgow to mark its hosting of the COP26 climate change conference. The Scottish city will welcome more than 100 world leaders to COP26, the 26th UN Climate…
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The full story can be found at: Bringing research to secondary schools. | UCL Earth Sciences – UCL – University College London Dr Rosemary Willatt, a CPOM Research Fellow delivers Secondary School Science Advisors programme. Rosemary Willatt, a Research Fellow…
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