An international team produced an integrated assessment of polar ice mass losses in 2012. Now efforts to provide an up-to-date assessment are under way, with an open invitation for participation.
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Focusing the Human Lens on Glacial Outburst Floods
To better prepare mountain communities for possible floods, experts say that it is important to understand the communities themselves.
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Into the Belly of a Glacier
Ice caving started as a weekend hobby but has now blossomed into a portion of graduate student Kiya Riverman's Ph.D. research.
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Recent Studies Crack Open New Views of Glacial Crevasses
Scientists review 60 years of direct and remote observations of crevasses and the models used to simulate them.
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New Insights from 60 Years of Crevasse Research
Deep cracks in the ice may provide insight into glacier decay and help predict sea level rise.
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Pleistocene Rocks Tell Tale of Past Ice Sheet Melting
Researchers examine evidence from a past interglacial period to predict sea level rise in the future.
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Sea Level and Ice Sheet Changes During Past Warm Periods
PALSEA2 2015 Workshop; Tokyo, Japan, 22–24 July 2015
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Antarctic Meltwater Makes the Ocean Warmer and Fresher
Scientists model how Antarctic meltwater from specific locations could affect the Antarctic Bottom Water, ocean temperatures, and salinity.
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Sea Level Rise Due to Warming, Weakening of Greenland Glaciers
Increasing ice temperatures and decreasing ice viscosities could lead to "thermal-viscous collapse" of the Greenland ice sheet, raising sea levels as much as 51 centimeters over the next 500 years.
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Priorities for Antarctic Research: Glaciers, Genomes, and Cosmic Waves
The next decade of research should focus on the need to understand the changing Antarctic environment and how organisms adapt to it, a high-level report says.