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Winds driving increase in Antarctic sea ice
Caption: Trends in Antarctic sea ice motion over the 19-year study period are shown by the arrows, in meters per second per year. The background colors show the change in northward ice speed, with reds...
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Why sea ice extent in Antarctica is growing slightly
While the Arctic sea-ice has experienced a dramatic reduction, Antarctic sea ice continues to increase in extent hitting a new record in October this year. So what's going on? The trend of a slight...
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West Antarctic Ice Sheet warming Byrd Polar Station
Image Caption: Researchers at Ohio State University and their colleagues have discovered that the central region of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is experiencing twice as much warming as...
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Global Warming on West Antarctic Ice Sheet three times the global average
Original article from San Fransisco Bay Area Indymedia, Dec 23rd, 2012 7:16 PM: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is warming at three times the global average, according to temperature measurements at Byrd...
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Is Climate Change causing an exponential rate of Ice sheet Mass Loss, sea...
Greenland Ice Mass change rate 2012Climate scientist James Hansen and his colleague Makiko Sato have released a new discussion paper with updated data on ice sheet mass loss from Greenland and...
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Antarctic Peninsula melt duration
Figure 6: Antarctic Peninsula Melt onset anomaly (Craig R. Smith et al 2013)
View ArticleAntarctic Peninsula summer melt season prolonged by global warming
The melt season on the Antarctic Peninsula has been getting much longer over the last 60 years, at some locations doubling in length according to the research lead by Dr Nick Barrand of the British...
View ArticleAntarctic Octopus genetics reveals past West Antarctic Ice sheet collapse
It seems the genetics of the Antarctic Octopus is showing us how fragile the West Antarctic Ice sheet (WAIS) may be with global warming. It raising questions about the ice sheet susceptibility to...
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Antarctic Peninsula: nonlinear intensification of melt unprecedented in last...
James Ross island, Antarctic PeninsulaThis study analysing an Antarctic Peninsula ice core from James Ross island has determined that there has been a ten fold increase in melt intensity over the last...
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James Ross island, Antarctic Peninsula
Image of James Ross Island from Wikimedia Commons. Photo by James Ross/NASA.
View ArticleVolcanic activity adds further to instability of West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Volcanic activity detected near the Executive Committee range in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica adds another factor to the instability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). A small eruption under...
View ArticleIce Sheets and Sea level: what the past tells us is likely
Watch this informative video By Peter Sinclair and the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media on ice sheet collapse and sea level rise and past climates. "We are still potentially underestimating...
View ArticleWest Antarctic ice sheet melting accelerates over last 4 years
By Tim Radford. The rate of ice loss from the West Antarctic appears to have accelerated sharply in the last four years, European scientists say.LONDON, 20 December - Ice is being lost over the West...
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The Paradox of Antarctic Sea Ice in a warming world: Research vessel trapped...
Akademik Shokalskiy trapped by sea ice in AntarcticaI came across an article lambasting the Australian Antarctic Expedition scientists on board the MV Akademik Shokalskiy trapped by fast ice since...
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