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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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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There is set to be only 10,500 cubic kilometres of sea ice in the Arctic this month – the joint lowest of any November on record – according to satellite observations processed by CPOM. Although sea ice volume did not…
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CPOM scientists have found that Arctic sea ice volume increased markedly in the summer of 2013 compared to the previous three years, as less of the ice melted due to lower air temperatures. The research, published in Nature Geoscience, suggests…
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CPOM’s Harry Heorton blogs about sea ice formation and dynamics and why it’s important for global climate on the Reading Meteorology Department blog here.