By collaborating closely with space agencies, CPOM used data from satellites to observe the dynamics of sea ice across the cryosphere, monitoring sea ice thickness, concentration and movement which contributes to our understanding of polar climate systems and their influence on the global climate.
We continue to develop our core capability in Sea Ice Earth observation, maintaining consistent earth observation data archives and develop CPOM cryosphere and altimetry software packages, as well as maintain and develop CPOM data portals for the dissemination and visualisation of CPOM cryosphere products and related information.
Related Projects
- BIOPOLE – Biogeochemical processes and ecosystem function in a changing polar system.
- CANARI – Climate change in the Arctic-North Atlantic region and impact on the UK.
Recent Publications
Observing how land ice is changing is critical because it tells us how ice melt is affecting global sea levels, and also allows us to investigate, and better understand, how climate change is affecting these vast, yet remote, ice bodies. Thanks to ESA satellite CryoSat-2, advances in radar altimetry instrument technology and processing now allow us to study the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets in unprecedented detail. By combining CryoSat’s data with that from older altimetry missions, we have been able to chart the increasing contribution of the ice sheets to global sea levels and investigate how key glaciers have behaved since 1992.
Related Projects
- IMBIE – Ice Sheet Mass Balance Intercomparison Project
- BIOPOLE – Biogeochemical processes and ecosystem function in a changing polar system.
- TerraFIRMA – Future impacts risks and mitigation actions
Recent Publications
CPOM plays a leading role in national and international sea ice model development, collaborated extensively with core users at the Met Office, NOC and BAS, and makes our models and outputs available to the sea ice community, including the UK Sea Ice Group. CPOM currently improves the climate sea ice model SI3 by implementing new physics and supporting and guiding researchers across the wider Polar Research Community in its use.
Related Projects
- CANARI – Climate change in the Arctic-North Atlantic region and impact on the UK.
Recent Publications
Our land ice numerical models simulate the behaviour of land ice, incorporating ice flow, melting and accumulation supporting scientists to predict potential future scenarios. We can use data sets and models to assess the mass balance of ice sheets in regions like Greenland and Antarctica, which supports scientists to understand sea level rise and its impact on the global climate.
Related Projects.
- TerraFIRMA – Future impacts risks and mitigation actions.
- CANARI – Climate change in the Arctic-North Atlantic region and impact on the UK.
BISICLES Land Ice Model
CPOM leads UK development of the BISICLES ice sheet model. BISICLES is a state-of-the-art high-performance parallel ice sheet model that employs our own adaptive mesh techniques and data assimilation methods to simulate continental ice sheets.
Find out more about BISICLES.
Recent Publications
