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Cryospheric Sciences

David Docquier

David Docquier is a post-doctoral researcher at the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (https://climdyn.meteo.be/). His study focuses on the cause-effect relationships between recent summer sea-ice lows in both polar regions and their potential interacting agents. His work is funded by the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO) via the RESIST project (find the project here: https://resist-impuls.github.io/).

Marine Ice Sheet Instability “For Dummies”

June 22, 2016
Marine Ice Sheet Instability “For Dummies”

MISI is a term that is often thrown into dicussions and papers which talk about the contribution of Antarctica to sea-level rise but what does it actually mean and why do we care about it? MISI stands for Marine Ice Sheet Instability. In this article, we are going to attempt to explain this term to you and also show you why it is so important. Background The Antarctic Ice Sheet represents the larg ...[Read More]

Image of the Week – Storing water in Antarctica to delay sea-level rise

April 29, 2016
Image of the Week – Storing water in Antarctica to delay sea-level rise

  Sea level rise Sea-level rise is one of the main impacts of the current global warming and its rate has dramatically increased in the last decades (the current rate is about 3 mm per year). Even if greenhouse gas emissions were stopped today, sea level would continue to rise due to the slow Earth climate system response (IPCC, 2013, chap. 13). It is therefore a considerable threat for popul ...[Read More]