COMING SOON (early 2021) ESA has created a new online course, ‘EO from Space: The Cryosphere’, led by CPOM and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Course Educators Professor Andrew Shepherd, CPOM Director, is the lead educator on the online course…
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A new study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, supports predictions that the Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2035. High temperatures in the Arctic during the last interglacial – the warm period around 127,000 years ago –…
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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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**Registration now open** This meeting is part of the Royal Meteorological Society Meetings programme, open to all, from expert to enthusiast, for topical discussions on the latest advances in weather and climate.
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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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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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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Registration is now open for a new, free European Space Agency/FutureLearn course on how we observe and monitor the Greenland ice sheet. Made up of layers of compressed snow from over the last 100,000 years, the vast Greenland ice sheet…
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In 2011, researchers observed a massive bloom of phytoplankton growing under Arctic sea ice – conditions that should have been far too dark for anything requiring photosynthesis to survive. Using mathematical modeling, researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering…
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