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The rate at which ice is disappearing across the planet is speeding up, according to new CPOM research. The findings ...
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CPOM Associate Investigator Dr Tamsin Edwards (King's College London) featured on BBC4's “Planet Earth - A User's Guide” on 28th ...
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Last month Rosemary Willatt was awarded the Konrad Steffen Award at the ESA Polar Science Week conference, for the best ...
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The Government of the British Antarctic Territory has announced 28 new place names in the Territory today to commemorate the ...
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COMING SOON (end of November) ESA has created a new online course, ‘EO from Space: The Cryosphere’, led by CPOM ...
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UCL Grand Challenges and Global Engagement Office present: Beyond Boundaries Session 3: Sustainability & the Water Cycle Wednesday, 21 October ...
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Scientists warn that if greenhouse gas emissions continue apace, Greenland and Antarctica’s ice sheets could together contribute more than 39cm ...
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Research attention score: Article from University of Leeds: Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica whose melting rates are rapidly increasing ...
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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 ...
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An article led by CPOM PhD researcher Inès Otosaka on 'Surface Melting Drives Fluctuations in Airborne Radar Penetration in West ...
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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 ...
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CPOM researchers Victoria Lee and Tony Payne have co-authored, alongside Robin S. Smith (NCAS), an article on Atmospheric Blocking and ...
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Time magazine's special issue 'One Last Chance' released on the 20th July featured a stunning visualisation of climate change data ...
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A comprehensive annual climate overview, on which CPOM researchers were co-authors, has been released by the Copernicus Climate Change Service ...
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Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice faster than in the 1990s and are both tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
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Research attention score: Greenland is losing ice faster than in the 1990s and is tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
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Seven areas of fast-flowing ice on the Antarctic Peninsula have been formally named after Earth observation satellites, following a request ...
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In only 25 years, ocean melting has caused ice thinning to spread across West Antarctica so rapidly that 24% of ...
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Tom Slater, a final year PhD student at CPOM Leeds, is being presented with the Piers Sellers prize for exceptional ...
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A recently-launched satellite mission is now proving a valuable addition to Antarctic monitoring efforts, according to work published this week ...
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By David Schroeder, CPOM researcher, University of Reading Reproduced from the Weather and Climate @ Reading blog Climate model projections ...
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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! ...
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**Registration now open** This meeting is part of the Royal Meteorological Society Meetings programme, open to all, from expert to ...
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ESA’s Sentinel-1 mission has revealed exactly how fast Greenland’s glaciers are flowing into the Arctic Ocean. The research, published in ...
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Monitoring Antarctica from space has revealed how its ice is being lost to the oceans, providing crucial insight into the ...
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Research attention score: Ice losses from Antarctica have increased global sea levels by 7.6 mm since 1992, with two fifths ...
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A new map of Antarctica, available to download from today, is providing the most accurate three-dimensional view of the continent ...
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A new project launched by the Institute for Research in Schools (IRIS) is offering students the chance to contribute to ...
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Antarctica’s great ice sheet is losing ground as it is eroded by warm ocean water circulating beneath its floating edge, ...
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CPOM’s Anna Hogg has been inspiring schoolchildren to take their fitness to new heights and learn about space science at ...
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Are you an ambitious scientist looking for your next challenge? Do you want to further your career with CPOM? Do ...
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Join CPOM's Anna Hogg and Paralympian Lauren Steadman in taking the Space to Earth View Challenge: Swim, bike or run ...
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A new paper in Advances in Space Research, led by Rachel Tilling, provides a first look at 2017 Arctic sea ...
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In May 2017 CPOM Leeds hosted the concluding meeting of NERC's Ice Sheet Stability Research Programme (iSTAR), an effort to improve ...
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CPOM's Noel Gourmelen explains how ESA's Sentinel-1 and CryoSat missions have shed light on the huge canyons hidden within the ...
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The largest remaining ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula lost 10% of its area when an iceberg four times the ...
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ESA satellites are monitoring a deep crack that continues to cut across the Larsen C ice shelf. When it eventually ...
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Registration is now open for a new, free European Space Agency/FutureLearn course on how we observe and monitor the Greenland ...
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Glacier flow at the southern Antarctic Peninsula has increased since the 1990s, but a new study has found the change ...
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Radar mission Sentinel-1 continues to monitor the growing crack in Antarctica’s Larsen-C ice shelf, which is expected to produce a ...
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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 ...
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Around 250 million measurements taken by ESA’s CryoSat mission over the last six years have been used to create a ...
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CPOM scientists at Reading University have been closely involved in developing a new, more accurate forecast system to predict whether ...
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CPOM is seeking an excellent PhD candidate to work at the interface of climate and space science.   Using Earth ...
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An almost 25-year long record of elevation change of some of Antarctica’s fastest flowing and receding glaciers reveals important differences ...
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There is set to be only 10,500 cubic kilometres of sea ice in the Arctic this month – the joint ...
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The most recent, detailed picture of ice loss from Greenland is presented in a new study, published online today in ...
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ESA is holding a new advanced Cryosphere Training Course devoted to training the next generation of Earth Observation (EO) scientists ...
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CPOM scientists have found that Arctic sea ice volume increased markedly in the summer of 2013 compared to the previous ...
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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 ...
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This image combining two scans by Sentinel-1A’s radar shows that parts of the Pine Island glacier flowed about 100 m ...
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17 April 2015 Although Arctic sea ice set a record this year for its lowest ever winter extent, it was ...
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Having just celebrated its milestone fifth birthday, CryoSat has become the first mission to provide information on Arctic sea ice ...
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CPOM's Danny Feltham describes the current state of the Arctic sea ice and explains the uncertainties on Reading University's Weather ...
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CryoSat has delivered this year’s map of autumn sea-ice thickness in the Arctic, revealing a small decrease in ice volume ...
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CPOM scientists have found that predictions of Greenland ice loss and its impact on rising sea levels may have been ...
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Satellite images have revealed that a remote Arctic ice cap has thinned by more than 50 metres since 2012 – ...
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