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Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula

April 2022
Jonathan D. Wille, Vincent Favier, Nicolas C. Jourdain, Christoph Kittel, Jenny V. Turton, Cécile Agosta, Irina V. Gorodetskaya, Ghislain Picard, Francis Codron, Christophe Leroy-Dos Santos, Charles Amory, Xavier Fettweis, Juliette Blanchet, Vincent Jomelli & Antoine Berchet
Communications Earth & Environment
This study shows that the most intense atmospheric rivers induce extremes in temperature, surface melt, sea-ice disintegration, or large swells that destabilize the ice shelves with 40% probability.Read More →

State of the Climate: New Jersey 2021

April 2022
James Shope, Anthony Broccoli, Brian Frei, Mathieu Gerbush, Jeanne Herb, Marjorie Kaplan, Erica Langer, Lucas Marxen, David Robinson
Rutgers
This report summarizes annually updated scientific information on climate trends and projections that can be used by state and local decision-makers, researchers, hazard planning and climate resilience professionals, and residents.Read More →

European State of the Climate 2021

April 2022
Copernicus Climate Change Service, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, European Commission
European Commission
This report summarizes Europe's climatic conditions in 2021, including a focus on the Arctic. Read More →

Timing of emergence of modern rates of sea-level rise by 1863

February 2022
Jennifer S. Walker, Robert E. Kopp, Christopher M. Little, & Benjamin P. Horton
Nature Communications
This study shows that globally, it is very likely that rates of sea-level rise emerged above pre-industrial rates by 1863 CE, which is similar in timing to evidence for early ocean warming and glacier melt.Read More →

Mt. Everest’s highest glacier is a sentinel for accelerating ice loss

February 2022
Mariusz Potocki, Paul Andrew Mayewski, Tom Matthews, L. Baker Perry, Margit Schwikowski, Alexander M. Tait, Elena Korotkikh, Heather Clifford, Shichang Kang, Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa, Praveen Kumar Singh, Inka Koch, & Sean Birkel
NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science
This study shows the significant and increasing role that melting and sublimation have on the mass loss of Mt. Everest’s highest glacier.Read More →