Cryosphere Capsules

Past Warming Triggered Rapid Runaway Ice Loss in West Antarctica

Nature Geoscience, 8 February 2024 Scientists have uncovered for the first time direct evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet…

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Short-term Extreme Events Essential in Predicting Future Sea Level Rise

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 8 February 2024 This review paper brought together an international team of 29 ice sheet…

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Video of the Week: “Causes and Impacts of the March 2022 Extreme Heat Event in East Antarctica”

Following up on two companion papers printed in the Journal of Climate last week, this presentation by lead author Dr.…

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Tropical Weather Directly Linked to Extreme Heat Event in East Antarctica

Journal of Climate, 1 February 2024 A team of five dozen scientists from fourteen countries unraveled the dynamics and impacts…

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Atmospheric River Creates Record-high Temperatures and Surface Melt in Antarctic Peninsula

NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science, 4 December 2023 A similar atmospheric river swept intense heat and rainfall across the Antarctic…

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COP28 Video of Week: “Climate Change Increases Antarctica’s Vulnerability to Extreme Events”

This side event features Dr. Jonathan Wille, ETH Zurich, lead author of the two companion papers summarized above. He volunteered…

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Record Low Snowfall Sounds Alarm for Water Security in the Hindu Kush Himalaya

News Briefing: 26 January 2024 Mirroring the “snow drought” that struck western North America, mountains across the Hindu Kush Himalaya…

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Climate Warming Pushes Northern Hemisphere Snowpack Toward Critical Threshold

Nature, 10 January 2024 This study contained two major findings: first, human-driven fossil fuel emissions have significantly reduced snowpack across…

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COP28 Video of the Week: “Disappearing Snow and Ice in the Hindu Kush Himalaya”

The snow and ice of the Hindu Kush Himalaya mountains supply seasonal freshwater to river basins that serve billions of…

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Greenland Ice Loss 20% Higher Than Previously Estimated

Nature, 17 January 2024 New measurements reveal that the Greenland Ice Sheet lost 20% more ice over the past four…

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