Radar mission Sentinel-1 continues to monitor the growing crack in Antarctica’s Larsen-C ice shelf, which is expected to produce a massive iceberg Two Sentinel-1 radar images from 7 and 14 April 2017 have been combined to reveal the growing…
Read more
Around 250 million measurements taken by ESA’s CryoSat mission over the last six years have been used to create a unique 3D view of Antarctica, offering a snapshot of the undulating surface of this vast ice sheet. CryoSat’s radar altimeter…
Read more
CPOM is seeking an excellent PhD candidate to work at the interface of climate and space science. Using Earth Observation data acquired by satellites such as CryoSat-2, the European Space Agency’s mission dedicated to monitoring the polar regions, you…
Read more
An almost 25-year long record of elevation change of some of Antarctica’s fastest flowing and receding glaciers reveals important differences in the timing of retreat between single glaciers and the pace by which the ice loss spreads to Antarctica’s interior,…
Read more
The most recent, detailed picture of ice loss from Greenland is presented in a new study, published online today in Geophysical Research Letters. A team of scientists, led by researchers from the UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at…
Read more
This image combining two scans by Sentinel-1A’s radar shows that parts of the Pine Island glacier flowed about 100 m (in pink) between 3 March and 15 March 2015. Light blue represents stable ice on either side of the stream….
Read more
CPOM scientists have found that predictions of Greenland ice loss and its impact on rising sea levels may have been greatly underestimated. The finding follows a new study, published in Nature Climate Change, in which the future distribution of lakes that form…
Read more