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A new paper about the Antarctic Ice Sheet in a special issue of Science reviews critical knowledge gaps in our understanding of how Antarctica responds to variations in global climate. Led by Scripps Oceanography glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker, with ESR’s … Read More
A new paper led by Bryony Freer, a PhD student at the University of Leeds, uses laser altimetry from NASA’s ICESat-2 to show that the grounding line of Antarctic ice shelves can move up to 10 miles in a few … Read More
ESR is happy to announce the release of ArcTiCA, a new Arctic Tidal Constituent Atlas. Susan Howard and Laurie Padman, from Earth and Space Research, were happy to be part of this international collaboration, led by Michael Hart-Davis. ArcTiCA provides … Read More
ESR’s Laurie Padman was a co-author on a recently published paper that describes how tidal currents in the Arctic Ocean create large high-frequency internal waves that cause ocean mixing. The paper was motivated by data he and colleagues collected … Read More
Scott Springer and Laurie Padman, scientists at ESR, are co-authors of an open-access paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research entitled “Evolution of the Seasonal Surface Mixed Layer of the Ross Sea, Antarctica, Observed With Autonomous Profiling Floats”. The paper, … Read More
A new paper in Nature Geoscience summarizes a large, multi-institution, interdisciplinary study of Ross Ice Shelf, which is about the area of Spain and is the largest ice shelf in the world. The work was funded by the Antarctic Integrated … Read More
The full paper is available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X18302772.
The full paper is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016RG000546/full A summary of the paper is available from EOS: Ocean Tides Affect Ice Loss from Large Polar Ice Sheets