The full story can be found at Arctic sea ice thinning faster than expected | UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences – UCL – University College London. Sea ice in the coastal regions of the Arctic may be thinning up to…
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Noel Gourmelen, CPOM Associate Investigator at University of Edinburgh, is amongst the authors of a recent study, which shows that mountain glaciers in the Gulf Alaska and in High Mountain Asia have lost 5% of their volume of ice over…
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Supervisors: Dr Mal McMillan, Dr Amber Leeson, Dr Ce Zhang, Adam Sykulski Institute: Lancaster University Overview The rationale: Melting of Earth’s Polar ice sheets contributes approximately one-third of global sea level rise. As Earth’s climate warms, this contribution will increase…
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Sea level rise caused by melting ice could be halved this century if the Paris Agreement target of limiting warming to 1.5°C is met. A new study, from an international research team headed by CPOM Associate Dr Tamsin Edwards…
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CPOM contributed to the European State of the Climate 2020 report, an annual report compiled by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and implemented by ECMWF on behalf of the European Commission. This year, we contributed to two sections: the…
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CPOM Director Andy Shepherd (University of Leeds) and CPOM Associate Investigator Dr Tamsin Edwards (King’s College London) feature on BBC One’s documentary ‘Greta Thunberg – A Year to Change the World’ 12th April 2021 part one of a three-part documentary…
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Article first published by University of Leeds Glaciers in West Antarctica are moving more quickly from land into the ocean, contributing to rising global sea levels. A 25-year record of satellite observations has been used to show widespread increases…
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Last month Rosemary Willatt was awarded the Konrad Steffen Award at the ESA Polar Science Week conference, for the best e-poster by an early career scientist. She received a scale model of the Sentinel-1 satellite and €1000 towards publication costs….
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UCL Grand Challenges and Global Engagement Office present: Beyond Boundaries Session 3: Sustainability & the Water Cycle Wednesday, 21 October 2020 09:00 – 10:30 BST This session will look at how the water elements of SDGs 13 (Climate Action), 14…
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CPOM’s Anna Hogg has been inspiring schoolchildren to take their fitness to new heights and learn about space science at the same time. Funded by the UK Space Agency, the ‘Space to Earth View Challenge’ is a fun way of…
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