FEATURED PAPER: Tidal controls on ice streams
The often large ocean tides around Antarctica can greatly affect the flow of ice streams even long distances upstream of their grounding lines. Observing and modelling this interaction serves as […]
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FEATURED PAPER: Improved modelling of ice-ocean processes
Read more of: FEATURED PAPER: Improved modelling of ice-ocean processesPine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is currently one of the single biggest contributors to sea-level rise with an estimated volume loss of 1.2mm sea-level equivalent per decade. The loss […]
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PolarGAP
Read more of: PolarGAPPolarGAP is an ambitious international mission to capture new and critical data about the Earth’s global gravity field.
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DATA AS ART #10
Read more of: DATA AS ART #10Ice layers Radio waves can be transmitted down through an ice sheet, ice stream or glacier and are reflected off the internal layers in the ice as well as off […]
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NEWS STORY: Predicting polar ice loss
Read more of: NEWS STORY: Predicting polar ice lossMost comprehensive ice loss model A new international study is the first to use a high-resolution, large-scale computer model to estimate how much ice the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could […]
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Weddell Sea ice sheet and climate
Read more of: Weddell Sea ice sheet and climateStudying ice response during past climate changes improves understanding of Antarctic ice sheet dynamics. This knowledge helps predict how ice sheets may behave under future warming scenarios.
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Ocean-driven ice-shelf thinning in Antarctica
Read more of: Ocean-driven ice-shelf thinning in AntarcticaBy exploiting advances in ice sheet modelling, and new Antarctic-wide datasets, this project aims to predict how far and how fast the observed ocean-driven thinning of floating ice shelves will propagate into the interior of the Antarctic ice sheet, and assess the consequences for global sea level over decadal-to-centennial timescales.
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Ice Sheet Modelling
Read more of: Ice Sheet ModellingThe ice sheet modelling group integrates observational data with dynamical models to improve our representation of how the ice flows beneath the surface, and to reveal how the shape and flow of the Antarctic ice sheet has changed in the past.
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Depositional patterns and records in sediment drifts off the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctica
Read more of: Depositional patterns and records in sediment drifts off the Antarctic Peninsula and West AntarcticaDuring this project essential survey data was collected to help plan future deep ocean drilling expeditions.
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NEWS STORY: Ice shelf break up explained
Read more of: NEWS STORY: Ice shelf break up explainedAntarctic Team Discovers Mechanism for Massive Ice Shelf Collapse New research has found that the cataclysmic break-up of a large floating ice shelf in the early 2000’s was primarily the […]
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PRESS RELEASE: Ice sheet behaviour analysed
Read more of: PRESS RELEASE: Ice sheet behaviour analysedIce sheet retreat controlled by the landscape Ice-sheet retreat can halt temporarily during long phases of climate warming, according to scientists. A UK team led by Durham University has found […]
