Preliminary assessment of thaw slump hazard to Arctic cultural heritage in Nordenskiöld Land, Svalbard
This study contains a preliminary assessment of previous thaw slump activity in Nordenskiöld Land area of Svalbard.Read More →
Increased outburst flood hazard from Lake Palcacocha due to human-induced glacier retreat
The retreat of Palcaraju glacier cannot be explained by natural variability alone, as human-induced warming equals between 85 and 105% (5–95% confidence interval) of the observed 1 °C warming in this region.Read More →
Earth’s Ice Imbalance
Earth lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice between 1994 and 2017, and the rate of ice loss has risen by 57 % since the 1990s.Read More →
Attribution of late summer early autumn Arctic sea ice decline in recent decades
An attribution analysis based on the self-organizing maps method is performed to determine the relative contributions from dynamic and thermodynamic mechanisms to the Arctic sea ice decline in August–October during 1979–2016. Read More →
Extremes become routine in an emerging new Arctic
This study shows how the Arctic is transitioning from a dominantly frozen state.Read More →
Anthropogenic warming forces extreme annual glacier mass loss
Glacier mass balance is simulated using temperature and precipitation from multiple climate model ensembles. The authors estimate extreme mass loss was six (2011) and ten (2018) times more likely to occur with anthropogenic forcing than without.Read More →
State of the Climate: National Climate Report
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the climate in the United States by month, including data on precipitation, drought, and temperature and how it compares to national averages. Read More →
A 40-y Record Reveals Gradual Antarctic Sea Ice Increases Followed by Decreases at Rates Far Exceeding the Rates Seen in the Arctic
This analysis of 40 years of satellite records reveals a gradual increase in Antarctic sea ice which reversed in 2014. The rapid rates of decrease far exceed those in the Arctic and reduced the Antarctic sea ice to their lowest values in the record. Read More →
Acceleration of ice loss across the Himalayas over the past 40 years
Ice loss across the Himalayas is explained by climate forcing as a dominant drivers of glacier change.Read More →
Accelerating Changes in Ice Mass Within Greenland, and the Ice Sheet’s Sensitivity to Atmospheric Forcing
This study describes research in monitoring ice loss in Greenland due to oceanic and atmospheric forcings and predicts that continued atmospheric warming will lead to southwest Greenland becoming a major contributor to sea-level rise.Read More →