UCL Grand Challenges and Global Engagement Office present: Beyond Boundaries Session 3: Sustainability & the Water Cycle Wednesday, 21 October 2020 09:00 – 10:30 BST This session will look at how the water elements of SDGs 13 (Climate Action), 14…
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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CPOM scientists at Reading University have been closely involved in developing a new, more accurate forecast system to predict whether Arctic sea ice will fall to a record low level this summer, described in a study published in the journal Earth’s Future. Arctic…
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