Glaciers & Ice Sheets
Glaciers & Ice Sheets
The Many Forms and Shapes of Ice
Ice comes in many forms and shapes. Icebergs, like the one that sank the Titanic, can be as big as…
Read MoreGreenland Ice Sheet Melt ‘Off the Charts’ Compared With Past Four Centuries
Surface melting across Greenland’s mile-thick ice sheet began increasing in the mid-19th century and then ramped up dramatically during the 20th and early 21st centuries, showing no signs of abating, according to new research published Dec. 5, 2018, in the journal Nature. The study provides new evidence of the impacts of climate change on Arctic melting and global sea level rise.
Read MoreSigns of Big Change in the Arctic
The climate in the Arctic region once predictably shifted back and forth between two regimes. But now the system seems to be stuck.
Read MoreWhere Glaciers Meet the Sea
By Jack Cook, Tim Silva :: Originally published online June 1, 2010
Read MoreNorth Atlantic played pivotal role in last great climate tipping point
North Atlantic played pivotal role in last great climate tipping point
Uh Oh: Antarctica Might Melt Much Faster Than We Thought
Fiamma Straneo Selected for Prestigious Sverdrup Lecture
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has chosen Fiamma Straneo, a physical oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), to deliver the Sverdrup Lecture at this year’s meeting of the Ocean Sciences section held in New Orleans from February 21-26, 2016. The lecture is one of the highest awards the section bestows on its members.
Read MoreIn Greenland, a climate change mystery with clues written in water and stone
Ice, Wind & Fury
Greenlanders are well away of piteraqs, the hazardous torrents of cold air that sweep down off the ice cap. But scientists are just beginning to unravel how and when piteraqs form.
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