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- NASA’s Operation IceBridge Completes Eleven Years of Polar Surveys Tue, 17 Dec 19, 1:00amFrom NASA Global Climate Change NASA’s Operation IceBridge, a ten-year mission to collect polar data between ICESat and ICESat-2, may be coming to a close, but its hundreds of terabytes of data and the expertise of its...
- A new look at Greenland’s ice sheet and the bedrock below Tue, 3 Dec 13, 10:00pmFrom NASA: Airborne Radar Looking Through Thick Ice During NASA Polar Campaigns The bedrock hidden beneath the thick ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica has intrigued researchers for years...
- Scientists Create a Detailed Map of the Antarctic Landscape Below the Ice and Snow Fri, 7 Jun 13, 3:20amScientists at NASA have been working hard to reveal the most alien landmass on the planet: Antarctica. Humans have never seen the continent without snow and ice, but now, using decades of research, we can see a digital rendering...
- Ice loss model verification via satellite observations Thu, 14 Feb 13, 10:01amEuropean satellite confirms UW numbers: Arctic Ocean is on thin ice By Hannah Hickey (via university of Washington press release) The September 2012 record low in Arctic sea-ice extent was big news, but a missing piece of...
- NASA: Warm Ocean Currents Cause Majority of Ice Loss from Antarctica Thu, 26 Apr 12, 8:22amBreaking news from NASA and the ICEsat team, that’s their headline, not mine. This really makes all the hype over the now discredited Steig et al. paper, which attempted to establish an air temperature warming trend...
- Antarctic ice – more accurate estimates Thu, 28 Jul 11, 2:00pmGuest post by Verity Jones @ Digging In The Clay Cracking ice shelves make headlines, but ice loss estimates that are revised downwards don’t. While there is great hand wringing over coastal ice loss in Greenland and...