Ice sheet models (scientific simulations which aim to predict future behaviour of ice sheets) often disagree on the timing and magnitude of sea level rise up until 2300. For example, projections of Antarctica’s contribution to sea level rise beyond 2100…
Read more
£8.4M has been awarded to the British Antarctic Survey and the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling to deliver the next 5 years of their long-term polar science activities. The UK Polar Research Expertise for Science and Society (PRESCIENT) programme…
Read more
New publication in Nature Communications introduces GPSat, a tool that helps process constantly changing satellite data, more quickly and efficiently than older methods. This tool can help scientists better monitor changes in sea ice over time and help improve predictions…
Read more
This week we watched along with many across the globe, as pioneer European satellite ERS-2 finally made its journey back to earth after almost 30 years monitoring earth from the sky. For many current and former CPOM scientists, this was…
Read more
CPOM publishes paper ‘Multipeak retracking of radar altimetry waveforms over ice sheets’ in Remote Sensing of Environment, introducing a new processing approach, aimed at overcoming challenges associated with using radar altimetry to measure ice sheet changes over rugged coastal topography…
Read more
‘Firn On Ice Sheets’, by The Firn Symposium Team, was published today in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment (23.1.24). The paper explains what firn is, what affects it, and the future of firn, as well as discussing how research in…
Read more
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…
Read more
CPOM scientist, Inès Otosaka features as the guest EGU blogger and talks about the importance of radar altimetry in glaciology for predicting future sea-level rise – a fabulous intro to radar altimetry & satellites. The full blog can be found…
Read more
The UKRI have awarded £47M to NERC research centres to address six critical environmental science challenges facing the UK, including climate change mitigation strategies, coastal flooding & erosion, and extreme weather. CPOM is to collaborate on 3 projects BIOPOLE, CANARI & TerraFIRMA….
Read more
Article first published by the University of Leeds – 19.01.22 Scientists monitoring the giant A68A Antarctic iceberg from space reveal that a huge amount of fresh water was released as it melted around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia….
Read more