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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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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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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In May 2017 CPOM Leeds hosted the concluding meeting of NERC’s Ice Sheet Stability Research Programme (iSTAR), an effort to improve understanding of West Antarctica’s combined Pine Island Glacier–Amundsen Sea system. Participants reviewed iSTAR’s combined achievements against the programme’s original objectives:…
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CPOM’s Noel Gourmelen explains how ESA’s Sentinel-1 and CryoSat missions have shed light on the huge canyons hidden within the Antarctic ice shelf in a new ESA article, summarised in the video below.
The largest remaining ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula lost 10% of its area when an iceberg four times the size of London broke free earlier this month. Since the 12 July 2017 breakaway, CPOM’s Dr Anna Hogg and Dr Hilmar Gudmundsson,…
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ESA satellites are monitoring a deep crack that continues to cut across the Larsen C ice shelf. When it eventually gives way, it will create one of the largest icebergs on record. Sentinel-1 now shows the crack in the ice…
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Glacier flow at the southern Antarctic Peninsula has increased since the 1990s, but a new study has found the change to be only a third of what was recently reported. An international team of researchers, led by CPOM, is the…
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