Cryospheric Sciences

Image of the Week – What’s Hot in the Cryosphere? A 2018 review

Liam Taylor January 18, 2019

In 2018, NASA’s Operation IceBridge captured this image of a tabular iceberg off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, leading to a flurry of media excitement. In this blog post, we’ll look at some of the other big scientific discoveries of 2018 in the field of cryospheric sciences [Credit: NASA / Jeremy Harbeck, CC-BY 2.0].

Every year, humanity understands more and more about a remote and unforgiving component of the Earth system – the cryosphere. 2018 has been no exception, and in this blog post we’ll take a look at some of the biggest scientific findings of cryospheric science in 2018. We will then look forward to 2019 and beyond, to see what the future holds for these rapidly changing climate component ...[Read More]

Image of the Week — Orange is the new white

Simon Gascoin, Marie Dumont and Ghislain Picard June 15, 2018

On 22 March 2018, large amounts of Saharan dust were blown off the Libyan coast to be further deposited in the Mediterranean, turning the usually white snow-capped Mountains of Turkey, Romania and even Caucasus into Martian landscapes. As many people were struck by this peculiar color of the snow, they started documenting this event on social media using the “#orangesnow hashtag”. Instagram and t ...[Read More]

Image of the Week – The Gap, the Bridge, and the Game-changer

Thomas Lavergne February 9, 2018

The Gap, the Bridge, and the Game-changer are three series of satellites. They carry instruments that measure the microwave radiation emitted by the Earth (called passive microwave instruments), while flying 800 km above our heads at 7,5 km/s. Since the late 1970s, most sea ice properties (concentration, extent, area, velocity, age and more!) have been measured with such passive microwave instrume ...[Read More]