SO-WISE
SO-WISE addresses a critical knowledge gap in understanding how warm ocean water reaches and melts the undersides of West Antarctic ice shelves, which is currently the largest source of uncertainty in global sea level rise projections.
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Climate scientists uncover 30-year-old temperature record
Read more of: Climate scientists uncover 30-year-old temperature recordThe World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has recognized a temperature of -69.6°C (-93.3°F) at an automatic weather station in Greenland on 22 December 1991 as the coldest ever recorded in the […]
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Synchronous timing of past abrupt climate changes
Read more of: Synchronous timing of past abrupt climate changesNew research has revealed that climate changes associated with past episodes of abrupt warming in Greenland occurred synchronously across a region extending from the Arctic to the Southern Hemisphere subtropics. […]
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Past evidence supports complete loss of Arctic sea-ice by 2035
Read more of: Past evidence supports complete loss of Arctic sea-ice by 2035A new study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, supports predictions that the Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2035. High temperatures in the Arctic […]
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Record warming at the South Pole
Read more of: Record warming at the South PoleThe South Pole has warmed at over three times the global rate since 1989, according to a paper published in Nature Climate Change today (29 June 2020). This warming period was […]
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New briefing paper on Arctic change
Read more of: New briefing paper on Arctic changeBAS researchers have contributed to a new briefing paper about the Arctic published this week (25 June 2020). Working with a team at the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, […]
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Antarctic sea ice loss explained in new study
Read more of: Antarctic sea ice loss explained in new studyScientists have discovered that summer sea ice in the Weddell Sea area of Antarctica has decreased by one million square kilometres – an area twice the size of Spain – […]
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Migratory secrets of recovering whale species
Read more of: Migratory secrets of recovering whale speciesScientists have discovered where a whale species that feeds around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia breeds during the winter months. This understanding of where the animals migrate from will […]
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Increase in winter warm spells in UK temperature records
Read more of: Increase in winter warm spells in UK temperature recordsWarm winter spells have increased in frequency and duration two- to three times over since 1878, according to a new study published this week (6 May 2020). In a new […]
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Drilling projects set to break new ground
Read more of: Drilling projects set to break new groundTwo new research projects – in partnership with British Antarctic Survey engineers – will drill deeper than ever before in Antarctica and in space. The first project, called INCISED, is […]
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Traces of rainforests found in West Antarctica
Read more of: Traces of rainforests found in West AntarcticaAn international team of researchers has provided a new and unprecedented perspective on the climate history of Antarctica. From a sediment core collected from the seafloor in West Antarctica, they […]
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Climate scientists help businesses tackle climate change
Read more of: Climate scientists help businesses tackle climate changeClimate change could add around 20% to the global cost of extreme weather events by 2040, according to early findings from Cambridge researchers. The findings come from the Cambridge Climate […]
