An increase in snowfall rates across Antarctica is likely to be the single largest factor slowing down sea-level rise during this century. However, there are still difficulties in predicting the … read more

Glaciers exist all over the world but they are not all the same. There is a strong difference between the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland that exist rarely experience … read more

Numerical models of changing climate are only as good as the data which is used to test and verify them. In support of its climate modelling effort, ice2sea is collecting … read more

The West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) has long been considered vulnerable to rapid ice loss and satellite data show that the Amundsen Sea embayment of WAIS is losing ice at … read more

Satellites have been invaluable in calculating how much ice is bound in the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica and how much they gain or lose every year, as they … read more

Recent observations in Greenland and Antarctica have suggested that changes in the oceans are probably more significant than atmospheric changes in driving changes in these ice sheets. This is clearly … read more

Ice2sea scientists have investigated trends in the evolution of sea level in the Mediterranean Sea in collaboration with another external programme. Sea levels are determined globally by the volume of … read more

Our planet’s crust consists of a variety of rock types which, given high enough pressure, can undergo gradual deformation. Since matter is not evenly distributed on the Earth and some … read more

A longstanding problem in glaciology has been trying to understand how snow is blown around by the wind. The process itself will be familiar to anyone who has been out … read more

The surface of the Earth is not completely rigid; in fact, it is more like a waterbed, with a semi-rigid crust floating on a viscous liquid known as the mantle. … read more