"The country has witnessed days of #ExtremeWeather, killing scores of people and destroying property and farmland. Experts say #Pakistan is experiencing heavier #rains than normal in April because of #ClimateChange.
In the mountainous northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which has been hit particularly hard by the deluges, authorities issued a flood alert because of the melting of #glaciers in several districts."
Integrating geological realism into subglacial investigations - Assistant Prof. Emma MacKie - Uni of Florida
"The conditions beneath ice sheets play an important role in governing ice sheet behavior and determining their vulnerability to climate change..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufUBYl65nEg#Glaciers#Cryosphere#SeaLevelRise
Four decades of glacial data reveals substantial losses and water worries
An analysis of glacial data spanning four decades has provided valuable insights into the changes taking place in the #glaciers of the Pir Panjal range within the #Kashmir basin in India. The research, published in the International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology, analyzed data for the period 1980 to 2020.
It reveals significant losses in glacial mass.
An unprecedented leap of 38.5C in the coldest place on Earth is a harbinger of a disaster for humans and the local ecosystem...Poleward winds, which previously made few inroads into the atmosphere above Antarctica, are now carrying more and more warm, moist air from lower latitudes – including Australia – deep into the...
Rapid melting of ice sheets and glaciers drives a unique geometry, or fingerprint, of sea level change. As an ice sheet loses mass, its gravitational attraction on the nearby ocean is reduced, causing ocean water to migrate away from the ice sheet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD_t-7YQnO8#SeaLevelRise#Glaciers#Cryosphere
Chien Hwa & Yefan Wang at the Intl. Glaciol. Society’s Global Seminar 2023/24 Series - International Glaciological Society
"going to talk to us today about supraglacial lake evolution in Northwest Greenland" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCrHW3IB1hs
Study reports enormous ice loss from Greenland glacier "Ground-based measuring devices and aircraft radar operated in the far northeast of Greenland show how much ice the 79° N-Glacier is losing. According to measurements conducted by the Alfred Wegener Institute, the thickness of the glacier has decreased by more than 160 meters since 1998. Warm ocean water flowing under the glacier tongue is melting the ice from below" https://phys.org/news/2024-03-enormous-ice-loss-greenland-glacier.html#Greenland#Glaciers#Cryosphere#SeaLevelRise
Thousands in #Ladakh protest demanding climate action and land rights in freezing conditions
"Nestled between India, Pakistan and China, Ladakh has faced territorial disputes and suffered the effects of climate change.
Ladakh’s thousands of #glaciers — which helped dub the rugged region one of the "water towers of the world" — are receding at an alarming rate, threatening the #water supply of millions of people."
#introduction - I'm Anya Reading - good to meet/connect!
Working on Antarctica (tectonics, ice sheet change, int. with ocean and atmosphere, inter disc. links). Focus on ground-based geophysics (esp. seismology) and compute. Professor of Geophysics at #UTAS#physics#comp_antarctic group, enabling/advocate for research, learning, #diversity in #stem.
NASA Climate Change: Towards a New Generation of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Models: Climate Seminar
"Broadly speaking, glacial isostatic adjustment is the study of how the solid Earth and gravity field respond to changes in regional- to global-scale ice mass redistribution...." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmVYlMe-k_g#Glaciers#IceAge#SeaLevel#Cryosphere
This sapphire blue crystal ice cave is located in an outlet glacier of Iceland's largest ice cap, Vatnajökull glacier, called Breiðamerkurjökull glacier. Vatnajökull glacier is Europe's largest ice cap by volume.
‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe (www.theguardian.com)
An unprecedented leap of 38.5C in the coldest place on Earth is a harbinger of a disaster for humans and the local ecosystem...Poleward winds, which previously made few inroads into the atmosphere above Antarctica, are now carrying more and more warm, moist air from lower latitudes – including Australia – deep into the...