Press release: 20 April 2023, Northumbria University – Polar ice sheet melting records have toppled during the past decade | Northumbria University, Newcastle The seven worst years for polar ice sheets melting and losing ice have occurred during the past…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Scientists warn that if greenhouse gas emissions continue apace, Greenland and Antarctica’s ice sheets could together contribute more than 39cm to global sea level rise this century. From University of Leeds press release, 17th September The Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison…
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Research attention score: Article from University of Leeds: Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica whose melting rates are rapidly increasing have raised global sea level by 1.8cm since the 1990s, and are matching worst-case climate warming scenarios. According to a…
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