AI can map giant icebergs from satellite images 10,000 times faster than humans
Scientists have trained an artificial intelligence (AI) system to accurately map the surface area and outline of giant icebergs captured on satellite images in just ...
Polar ice sheet melting records have toppled during the past decade
Press release: 20 April 2023, Northumbria University - Polar ice sheet melting records have toppled during the past decade | ...
Guest EGU Blog-For Dummies: Radar altimetry for measuring ice sheet elevation changes
CPOM scientist, Inès Otosaka features as the guest EGU blogger and talks about the importance of radar altimetry in glaciology ...
ESA CryoVEx/DEFIANT Antarctica campaign
The following blog was written by Research Fellow, Inès Otosaka based at the University of Leeds. Last month (December 2022), ...
Protecting Our Planet Day 22
CPOM Director, Professor Andy Shepherd (University of Leeds) features in a STEM Learning episode on Protecting Our Ice, its now ...
CPOM at COP27
PhD researcher, Robbie Mallett (UCL) attended COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, with the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative. During the ...
Tamsin Edwards: New Parliamentary “Thematic Research Lead”
Congratulations to CPOM associate, Tamsin Edwards (KCL) who in 2023, will be on secondment as a new Parliamentary "Thematic Research ...
International Astronautical Congress in Paris
CPOM Director, Professor Andy Shepherd (University of Leeds) joined Simonetta Cheli, ESA's Programmes and Head of ESRIN (ESA establishment in Italy) and ...
All Eyes on Earth
Earth’s ice is melting 65% faster than the 1990s. But without satellites, we would be blind to the true status of global ...
Satellites now get full-year view of Arctic sea-ice
Satellites can now measure the thickness of Arctic sea ice in the summer months for the first time, thanks to ...
£47m to address critical environmental challenges facing the UK
The UKRI have awarded £47M to NERC research centres to address six critical environmental science challenges facing the UK, including climate change ...
CRYO2ICE Greenland Campaign 2022
The following blog was written by PhD researcher, Amy Swiggs based at the University of Leeds. Andy Shepherd, Inès Otosaka, ...
New CryoSat-2 Thematic Products
As of January 2022, ESA has started releasing new CryoSat-2 Thematic Products, dedicated to five distinct areas: Sea Ice, Land ...
The climate papers most featured in the media in 2021
Full article can be found at CarbonBrief. The 10 climate papers most featured in the media in 2021 includes CPOM's ...
Mega iceberg released 152 billion tonnes of fresh water into ocean
Article first published by the University of Leeds – 19.01.22 Scientists monitoring the giant A68A Antarctic iceberg from space reveal ...
World’s ice is melting faster than ever
ESA - World's ice is melting faster than ever As global temperatures increase, the melting of the massive ice sheets ...
Extreme ice melting in Greenland raises global flood risk
Article first published by the University of Leeds - 02.11.21 Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland ...
Leeds research inspires glacier names to mark COP26
A glacier in West Antarctica has been formally named after the city of Glasgow to mark its hosting of the ...
Dr Rosie Willatt bringing research to secondary schools
The full story can be found at: Bringing research to secondary schools. | UCL Earth Sciences - UCL – University ...
Arctic sea ice thinning faster than expected
The full story can be found at Arctic sea ice thinning faster than expected | UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences ...
CryoSat reveals ice loss from glaciers in Alaska and Asia
Noel Gourmelen, CPOM Associate Investigator at University of Edinburgh, is amongst the authors of a recent study, which shows that ...
Deep Learning for Ice Sheet Satellite Altimetry
Supervisors: Dr Mal McMillan, Dr Amber Leeson, Dr Ce Zhang, Adam Sykulski Institute: Lancaster University Overview The rationale: Melting of ...
Sea level rises from melting ice massively reduced by limiting global warming
Sea level rise caused by melting ice could be halved this century if the Paris Agreement target of limiting warming ...
European State of the Climate 2020 Report
CPOM contributed to the European State of the Climate 2020 report, an annual report compiled by the Copernicus Climate Change ...
Prof Andy Shepherd and Dr Tamsin Edwards Feature in the BBC One Documentary: Greta Thunberg – A Year to Change the World
CPOM Director Andy Shepherd (University of Leeds) and CPOM Associate Investigator Dr Tamsin Edwards (King’s College London) feature on BBC ...
Glaciers accelerate in the Getz region of West Antarctica
Article first published by University of Leeds Glaciers in West Antarctica are moving more quickly from land into the ocean, ...
Being a scientist-mum: a report for UN Women and Girls in Science Day
A year ago today I was standing at the University of Manitoba bus stop in -10°C with my colleague Robbie ...
CPOM research shows that global ice loss increases are at record rate
The rate at which ice is disappearing across the planet is speeding up, according to new CPOM research. The findings ...
Dr Tamsin Edwards features on BBC4’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2020
CPOM Associate Investigator Dr Tamsin Edwards (King's College London) featured on BBC4's “Planet Earth - A User's Guide” on 28th ...
Rosemary Willatt Awarded the Konrad Steffen Award
Last month Rosemary Willatt was awarded the Konrad Steffen Award at the ESA Polar Science Week conference, for the best ...
New place names to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica
The Government of the British Antarctic Territory has announced 28 new place names in the Territory today to commemorate the ...
Online Course: ‘EO from Space: The Cryosphere’
COMING SOON (early 2021) ESA has created a new online course, ‘EO from Space: The Cryosphere’, led by CPOM and ...
Beyond Boundaries: Realising the UN Sustainable Development Goals
UCL Grand Challenges and Global Engagement Office present: Beyond Boundaries Session 3: Sustainability & the Water Cycle Wednesday, 21 October ...
Ice sheets could add 39 centimetres to sea level by 2100
Scientists warn that if greenhouse gas emissions continue apace, Greenland and Antarctica’s ice sheets could together contribute more than 39cm ...
Sea level rise matches worst-case scenario
Research attention score: Article from University of Leeds: Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica whose melting rates are rapidly increasing ...
The earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years
A CPOM-led study, which shows that 28 trillion tonnes of ice have disappeared from the surface of the Earth since ...
CPOM research on the impact of surface melting on radar penetration in Greenland
An article led by CPOM PhD researcher Inès Otosaka on 'Surface Melting Drives Fluctuations in Airborne Radar Penetration in West ...
Past evidence supports complete loss of Arctic sea-ice by 2035
A new study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, supports predictions that the Arctic could be free of sea ice ...
Atmospheric Blocking and Greenland Melt
CPOM researchers Victoria Lee and Tony Payne have co-authored, alongside Robin S. Smith (NCAS), an article on Atmospheric Blocking and ...
CPOM research on the front page of Time magazine
Time magazine's special issue 'One Last Chance' released on the 20th July featured a stunning visualisation of climate change data ...
CPOM researchers contribute to the newly released Copernicus European State of the Climate Report 2019
A comprehensive annual climate overview, on which CPOM researchers were co-authors, has been released by the Copernicus Climate Change Service ...
Six-fold increase in polar ice losses since the 1990s
Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice faster than in the 1990s and are both tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
Greenland losing ice ‘faster than expected’
Research attention score: Greenland is losing ice faster than in the 1990s and is tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
Celebrating satellites’ contribution to Polar science
Seven areas of fast-flowing ice on the Antarctic Peninsula have been formally named after Earth observation satellites, following a request ...
Nearly a quarter of West Antarctic ice is now unstable
In only 25 years, ocean melting has caused ice thinning to spread across West Antarctica so rapidly that 24% of ...
CPOM’s Tom Slater wins 2019 Piers Sellers Prize
Tom Slater, a final year PhD student at CPOM Leeds, is being presented with the Piers Sellers prize for exceptional ...
New satellite keeps watch on Antarctic ice loss
A recently-launched satellite mission is now proving a valuable addition to Antarctic monitoring efforts, according to work published this week ...
Steps to make sea ice projections more robust
By David Schroeder, CPOM researcher, University of Reading Reproduced from the Weather and Climate @ Reading blog Climate model projections ...
Rachel Tilling wins 2018 Women In Aerospace-Europe Young Professional Award
Congratulations to CPOM's Rachel Tilling who has just been announced as the 2018 Women in Aerospace-Europe Young Professional Award Winner! ...
Arctic Prediction in a Changing Climate: Understanding Key Processes and Challenges
**Registration now open** This meeting is part of the Royal Meteorological Society Meetings programme, open to all, from expert to ...
Sentinels track Greenland’s summer speed-up
ESA’s Sentinel-1 mission has revealed exactly how fast Greenland’s glaciers are flowing into the Arctic Ocean. The research, published in ...
Satellites track vanishing Antarctic ice
Monitoring Antarctica from space has revealed how its ice is being lost to the oceans, providing crucial insight into the ...
Antarctica ramps up sea level rise
Research attention score: Ice losses from Antarctica have increased global sea levels by 7.6 mm since 1992, with two fifths ...
CryoSat gives best 3D view of Antarctica yet
A new map of Antarctica, available to download from today, is providing the most accurate three-dimensional view of the continent ...
CPOM helps school students become Earth Observation researchers
A new project launched by the Institute for Research in Schools (IRIS) is offering students the chance to contribute to ...
Antarctica retreating across the sea floor
Antarctica’s great ice sheet is losing ground as it is eroded by warm ocean water circulating beneath its floating edge, ...
Space to Earth View challenges kids to aim high!
CPOM’s Anna Hogg has been inspiring schoolchildren to take their fitness to new heights and learn about space science at ...
Fellowship in Satellite Altimetry
Are you an ambitious scientist looking for your next challenge? Do you want to further your career with CPOM? Do ...
Take your fitness to new heights with the Space to Earth View Challenge!
Join CPOM's Anna Hogg and Paralympian Lauren Steadman in taking the Space to Earth View Challenge: Swim, bike or run ...
First look at 2017 Arctic sea ice volume from CryoSat
A new paper in Advances in Space Research, led by Rachel Tilling, provides a first look at 2017 Arctic sea ...
Pine Island Glacier and Ice Sheet Stability in West Antarctica
In May 2017 CPOM Leeds hosted the concluding meeting of NERC's Ice Sheet Stability Research Programme (iSTAR), an effort to improve ...
Satellites reveal hidden ice canyons
CPOM's Noel Gourmelen explains how ESA's Sentinel-1 and CryoSat missions have shed light on the huge canyons hidden within the ...
Update on the Larsen-C iceberg breakaway
The largest remaining ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula lost 10% of its area when an iceberg four times the ...
Giant iceberg in the making at Larsen-C
ESA satellites are monitoring a deep crack that continues to cut across the Larsen C ice shelf. When it eventually ...
New FutureLearn Course on Greenland Ice Sheet
Registration is now open for a new, free European Space Agency/FutureLearn course on how we observe and monitor the Greenland ...
Antarctic Peninsula ice more stable than thought
Glacier flow at the southern Antarctic Peninsula has increased since the 1990s, but a new study has found the change ...
Sentinel-1 monitors growing crack in Larsen-C
Radar mission Sentinel-1 continues to monitor the growing crack in Antarctica’s Larsen-C ice shelf, which is expected to produce a ...
Phytoplankton blooms under Arctic sea ice
In 2011, researchers observed a massive bloom of phytoplankton growing under Arctic sea ice - conditions that should have been far too ...
CryoSat reveals Antarctica in 3D
Around 250 million measurements taken by ESA’s CryoSat mission over the last six years have been used to create a ...
How low will it go? Scientists to use improved forecast system to predict Arctic ice melt
CPOM scientists at Reading University have been closely involved in developing a new, more accurate forecast system to predict whether ...
PhD opportunity: Greenland/Antarctic ice sheet mass balance and regional variability in sea level rise
CPOM is seeking an excellent PhD candidate to work at the interface of climate and space science. Using Earth ...
Satellites track variations in retreat of West Antarctic glaciers
An almost 25-year long record of elevation change of some of Antarctica’s fastest flowing and receding glaciers reveals important differences ...
Lowest early-winter sea ice growth on record
There is set to be only 10,500 cubic kilometres of sea ice in the Arctic this month – the joint ...
CryoSat reveals recent Greenland ice loss
The most recent, detailed picture of ice loss from Greenland is presented in a new study, published online today in ...
ESA Advanced Cryosphere Training Course 2016
ESA is holding a new advanced Cryosphere Training Course devoted to training the next generation of Earth Observation (EO) scientists ...
Arctic sea ice shows resilience
CPOM scientists have found that Arctic sea ice volume increased markedly in the summer of 2013 compared to the previous ...
Sea ice: a story of cracks
CPOM's Harry Heorton blogs about sea ice formation and dynamics and why it's important for global climate on the Reading ...
Pine Island Glacier on Sentinel-1A’s radar
This image combining two scans by Sentinel-1A’s radar shows that parts of the Pine Island glacier flowed about 100 m ...
Latest CPOM sea ice report
17 April 2015 Although Arctic sea ice set a record this year for its lowest ever winter extent, it was ...
CryoSat beams down today’s Arctic sea ice
Having just celebrated its milestone fifth birthday, CryoSat has become the first mission to provide information on Arctic sea ice ...
Arctic sea ice: a cool start to spring
CPOM's Danny Feltham describes the current state of the Arctic sea ice and explains the uncertainties on Reading University's Weather ...
CryoSat extends its reach on the Arctic
CryoSat has delivered this year’s map of autumn sea-ice thickness in the Arctic, revealing a small decrease in ice volume ...
Migrating ‘supraglacial’ lakes could trigger future Greenland ice loss
CPOM scientists have found that predictions of Greenland ice loss and its impact on rising sea levels may have been ...
Arctic ice cap slides into the ocean
Satellite images have revealed that a remote Arctic ice cap has thinned by more than 50 metres since 2012 – ...