A new study has produced globally complete maps of the carbon-driven warming that occurred in the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), 56 million years ago. Changes in rainfall patterns and amplification of warming at the poles were remarkably consistent with modern trends.
Researchers have found an unexpected river beneath the Antarctic ice sheet that affects the flow and melting of ice, potentially accelerating ice loss as the climate warms. Its discovery indicates the base of the ice sheet has more active water flow than previously thought.
A team of researchers led by IGB scientist Sami Domisch, have developed the highest resolution map of the world’s river systems ever produced. The map provides a basis for the detailed study of what characterizes riverine habitats and how they are interconnected. The map is based on the “Hydrography90m” data set.
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), an ocean current system that carries warm water from the tropics into the North Atlantic and transports cold water from the northern to the southern hemisphere, is an important mechanism for the regulation of Earth’s climate.
An AI natural language processing approach is able to predict future fault friction and the next failure time with high resolution in laboratory earthquakes. The technique applies AI to the fault’s acoustic signals and goes beyond by predicting aspects of the future state of the fault’s physical system.
A new study using Copernicus Sentinel-1 data found that glaciers feeding the George VI Ice Shelf speed up by approximately 15% during the Antarctic summer. This is the first time seasonal cycles have been detected on land ice flowing into ice shelves in Antarctica.
Deep valleys buried beneath the seafloor of the North Sea record how the ancient ice sheets that used to cover Europe expelled water to stop themselves from collapsing.
Mars was once supposedly almost another Earth, with flowing water that froze into massive mountains of ice.
During spring and summer, as the air warms up and the sun shines down on the Greenland Ice Sheet, melt ponds form. Melt ponds are extensive pools of open water that form on both sea ice and ice sheets and are visible from space.
Researchers at the University of Toronto have identified the mechanism responsible for the formation of salinity and temperature “staircases” in the Arctic Ocean, resolving a mystery that has complexed oceanographers and climatologists for more than half a century.
