Think it’s hot here? The Antarctic Peninsula is unusually warm too
As extreme summer heat causes disruption across the UK and Europe this week, Midwinter at Antarctica’s Rothera Research Station is becoming increasingly unrecognisable.
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Read more of: Think it’s hot here? The Antarctic Peninsula is unusually warm too
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Extreme warm weather is changing Antarctic science
Read more of: Extreme warm weather is changing Antarctic scienceAs record winter warming hits Antarctic research stations, a new paper discusses how the increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather makes Antarctic research more important, but also more challenging.
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Scientists secure funding to study Greenland and North Atlantic climate tipping points
Read more of: Scientists secure funding to study Greenland and North Atlantic climate tipping pointsBritish Antarctic Survey (BAS) researchers have been selected for funding from The Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) to help improve our understanding of climate tipping points.
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Record low Antarctic sea ice ‘extremely unlikely’ without climate change
Read more of: Record low Antarctic sea ice ‘extremely unlikely’ without climate changeScientists at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have found that the record-low levels of sea ice around Antarctica in 2023 were extremely unlikely to happen without the influence of climate change.
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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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The Big Thaw
Read more of: The Big ThawThe Big Thaw studies snow and glacier changes in the Alps and Himalayas to improve forecasts of mountain water resources for global communities.
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Arctic flights to shed light on sea ice and storms link
Read more of: Arctic flights to shed light on sea ice and storms linkScientists are flying research aircraft through the heart of Arctic storms this summer to better understand how weather systems are affecting polar sea ice. Arctic cyclones are the main type […]
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Study sets course for research on Himalayan waters
Read more of: Study sets course for research on Himalayan watersA new study featuring contributions from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists has identified 100 pressing research questions on climate change and water resources in the Upper Indus Basin (UIB) that must be answered to protect the communities that live there.
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New verified temperature record for Antarctic continent
Read more of: New verified temperature record for Antarctic continentThe World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has today (1 July 2021) recognised a new record high temperature for the Antarctic continent of 18.3° Celsius on 6 February 2020 at the Esperanza […]
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Southern Hemisphere westerly winds likely to intensify as climate warms
Read more of: Southern Hemisphere westerly winds likely to intensify as climate warmsPolar climate scientists have created the most high resolution past record of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds. The results, published this week (9 December) in the journal Communications Earth and […]
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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 […]
