Cryosphere Capsules

COP27 Video of the Week: “Slow Onset, Irreversible Events Beyond Adaptation: Global Stocktake, Implementation and 1.5° Ambition” with Florence Colleoni

Global impacts, especially loss and damage, caused by cryosphere feedbacks from emissions overshoot over 1.5°C will be largely permanent on…

3 years ago

Latest IMBIE Report: Five-fold Increase in Ice Loss from Greenland and Antarctica since the 1990s

Earth System Science Data, 20 April 2023 This week, IMBIE (the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise) released its third…

3 years ago

Warming Atlantic Waters Threaten Previously Stable Greenland Glacier

Nature Communications, 19 April 2023 One of the previously most stable glaciers in Greenland is now retreating at an unprecedented…

3 years ago

Rising Temperatures, Melting Ice Jeopardize World’s Northernmost Research Station

News Briefing: 19 April 2023 Research stations high above the Arctic circle are experiencing record-breaking temperatures that make it increasingly…

3 years ago

COP27 Video of the Week: “Irreversible Impacts of 1.5°C Overshooting on the Cryosphere” with Climate Analytics’ Carl-Friedrich Schleussner and Uta Klönne, and Fabien Maussion

Irreversible impacts from cryosphere loss are already visible today due to increasing global warming. Crossing additional cryosphere thresholds will have…

3 years ago

Decreasing Sea Ice Increases Ocean Temperatures and Glacier Melt in West Antarctica

Geophysical Research Letters, 21 March 2023 Disappearing sea ice near West Antarctica is sending warm water closer to the continent,…

3 years ago

Rising Temperatures and Antarctic Ice Loss Produce First Sign of Slowing Global Ocean Circulation

Communication Earth & Environment, 13 March 2023 This study combines historical measurements with climate models to reveal that global meridional…

3 years ago

COP27 Video of the Week: “Committed Sea level Rise from Greenland at Today’s 1.1°C” with Jason Box

The Greenland Ice Sheet is three kilometers thick and has the potential to raise global sea levels by seven meters…

3 years ago

Past Ice Sheet Collapsed at Rates of 50-600 Meters Per Day, Under Conditions Similar to the WAIS Today

Nature, 06 April 2023 A study of the earlier great ice sheet covering Scandinavia has found that when it collapsed…

3 years ago

Increased Upwelling of Warmer Deep Ocean Waters Can Increase East Antarctic Ice Loss with Both Medium and High Emissions

Nature Communications, 1 April 2023 Increased warm water upwelling along the edges of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) has…

3 years ago