Paris (ESA) Oct 17, 2022
Certain estimates of Antarctica's total contribution to sea-level rise may be over, or even underestimated, after researchers detected a previously unknown source of ice loss variability. In a new paper published in The Cryosphere, researchers using Copernicus Sentinel-1 data, found that glaciers feeding the George VI Ice Shelf speed up by approximately 15% during the Antarctic summer. This is t
Seasonal changes in Antarctic ice sheet flow dynamics detected for the first time
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