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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A CPOM-led study, which shows that 28 trillion tonnes of ice have disappeared from the surface of the Earth since 1994 due to greenhouse gas emissions, has captured media and public attention. CPOM researchers Professor Andy Shepherd, Dr Tom Slater…
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An article led by CPOM PhD researcher Inès Otosaka on ‘Surface Melting Drives Fluctuations in Airborne Radar Penetration in West Central Greenland’ has been published in Geophysical Research Letters (August 2020). Radar waves emitted by satellites can be used to…
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CPOM researchers Victoria Lee and Tony Payne have co-authored, alongside Robin S. Smith (NCAS), an article on Atmospheric Blocking and Greenland Melt for the UK Earth system modelling project (UKESM) July newsletter. Atmospheric blocking occurs when near-stationary high-pressure systems divert…
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Time magazine’s special issue ‘One Last Chance’ released on the 20th July featured a stunning visualisation of climate change data on the front cover entitled ‘Currents’. The artwork, by Maine artist Jill Pelto, included a graph of ice sheet loss…
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A comprehensive annual climate overview, on which CPOM researchers were co-authors, has been released by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) containing invaluable insight into the state of our climate in 2019 to help build up a long-term picture of how…
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Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice faster than in the 1990s and are both tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s worst-case climate warming scenario. As a result, this will lead to an extra 17 centimetres of sea level…
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