Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...
"The map gives us a clear view of the white continent as if its 27 million cubic km of ice have been removed, revealing the ...
The Arctic reaches its maximum sea ice in March each year and then starts a six-month melt season. The National Snow and Ice ...
Sea ice melt is not a significant contributor to sea level rise, but its contribution is not nothing, either. Sea ice is ...
Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...
Researchers can use these differences in height to create a kind of topographic map of the surface of fresh- and seawater. This data can then be used for tasks such as assessing changes in sea ice or ...
In a significant milestone for Antarctic research, detailed and extensive information on ice thickness and bed topography is now ... of future ice loss and sea level rise. Led by the Bedmap3 ...