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An Unprecedented Record Low Antarctic Sea-ice Extent during Austral Summer 2022

April 2022
Jinfei Wang, Hao Luo, Qinghua Yang, Jiping Liu, Lejiang Yu, Qian Shi & Bo Han
Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
This study assesses the causes behind the record low 2022 Antarctic sea-ice extent.Read More →

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 →

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 →

Accelerated mass loss of Himalayan glaciers since the Little Ice Age

December 2021
Ethan Lee, Jonathan L. Carrivick, Duncan J. Quincey, Simon J. Cook, William H. M. James & Lee E. Brown
Scientific Reports
This study shows a ten-fold acceleration in Himalayan glacier ice loss.Read More →

Thermokarst acceleration in Arctic tundra driven by climate change and fire disturbance

December 2021
Yaping Chen, Mark J. Lara, Benjamin M. Jones, Gerald V. Frost, Feng Sheng Hu
One Earth
This study identifies climate change as the principal driver of all thermokarst formed during 1950–2015 and predicts that climate change and wildfire will synergistically accelerate thermokarst as the Arctic transitions in this century.Read More →

Arctic Report Card 2021: Rapid and pronounced warming continues to drive the evolution of the Arctic environment

December 2021
Twila A. Moon, Matthew L. Druckenmiller, Richard L. Thoman
NOAA
This report provides environmental information on the current state of different components of the Arctic environmental system relative to historical records.Read More →

Observing, Measuring, and Assessing the Consequences of Snow Drought

November 2021
Alexander R. Gottlieb and Justin S. Mankin
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
This study evaluates the scientific challenges and uncertainties arising from differences in defining and measuring snow droughts.Read More →

New climate models reveal faster and larger increases in Arctic precipitation than previously projected

November 2021
Michelle R. McCrystall, Julienne Stroeve, Mark Serreze, Bruce C. Forbes, & James A. Screen
Nature Communications
This study demonstrates that the transition from a snow- to rain-dominated Arctic in the summer and autumn is projected to occur decades earlier and at a lower level of global warming than previously thought.Read More →

Greater Yellowstone Climate Assessment: Past, Present, and Future Climate Change in Greater Yellowstone Watersheds

June 2021
Steven Hostetler, Cathy Whitlock, Bryan Shuman, David Liefert, Charles Wolf Drimal, and Scott Bischke
Greater Yellowstone Climate Assessment
This assessment presents an in-depth summary of past, historical, and projected future changes to temperature, precipitation, and water in the Greater Yellowstone Area.Read More →

Preliminary assessment of thaw slump hazard to Arctic cultural heritage in Nordenskiöld Land, Svalbard

May 2021
Ionut Cristi Nicu, Luigi Lombardo, Lena Rubensdotter
Springer
This study contains a preliminary assessment of previous thaw slump activity in Nordenskiöld Land area of Svalbard.Read More →

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