Not all icebergs are equal – and that matters for the climate, new study finds
Scientists studying world’s largest and most famous icebergs find surprising differences in how they affect ocean life.
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Read more of: Not all icebergs are equal – and that matters for the climate, new study finds
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Scientists chart the growing weather extremes on maritime Antarctic islands
Read more of: Scientists chart the growing weather extremes on maritime Antarctic islandsScientists at British Antarctic Survey have found that the number of warm weather events in the South Orkney Islands have significantly increased in frequency over the last 75 years.
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Arctic Summer-time Cyclones
Read more of: Arctic Summer-time CyclonesThe overarching goal of the project is to determine the role of sea-ice surface properties in Arctic cyclone dynamics and to characterise the interaction of Arctic cyclones with the summer-time Arctic environment.
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Deep insight into Arctic from MOSAiC expedition
Read more of: Deep insight into Arctic from MOSAiC expeditionNew research papers from the one-year MOSAiC expedition to study the Arctic have yielded new understanding about the region. Hundreds of international researchers are currently analysing observations from the MOSAiC […]
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Boaty McBoatface sheds light on warming ocean abyss
Read more of: Boaty McBoatface sheds light on warming ocean abyssThe debut mission involving the autonomous submarine Autosub Long Range – affectionately known as Boaty McBoatface – has for the first time shed light on a key process linking increasing […]
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BAS scientist joins research ship ‘drifting’ past North Pole
Read more of: BAS scientist joins research ship ‘drifting’ past North PoleUK scientists will join what could be the largest-scale Arctic research expedition ever planned when the German research ship, RV Polarstern, is deliberately lodged into sea ice to drift past […]
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Prestigious international award for oceanographer
Read more of: Prestigious international award for oceanographerProfessor Mike Meredith wins prize
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The Southern Ocean’s carbon story
Read more of: The Southern Ocean’s carbon storySONATA will design and implement an optimal approach to assess the state, variability and climatic drivers of the contemporary Southern Ocean carbon sink. This overriding objective will be achieved through a combination of atmospheric and marine field measurements as well as numerical modelling.
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Carbon in the twilight zone
Read more of: Carbon in the twilight zoneCOMICS studied how carbon moves through the ocean’s ‘twilight zone’, the area between 100m and 1000m below the surface. This zone plays a key role in regulating atmospheric CO2 levels.
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Local weather plays part in retreat of glacier
Read more of: Local weather plays part in retreat of glacierLocal weather plays an important part in the retreat of the ice shelves in West Antarctica, according to new research published in the journal Nature Communications today (Friday 17 February). […]
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A new polar research ship for Britain: project delivery
Read more of: A new polar research ship for Britain: project deliveryA new research platform to put UK scientists at the forefront of polar science
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Polar ice reveals secrets of carbon-climate feedbacks
Read more of: Polar ice reveals secrets of carbon-climate feedbacksAn international team of scientists have used air bubbles in polar ice from pre-industrial times to measure the sensitivity of the Earth’s land biosphere to changes in temperature.
