We have a new book chapter out called "The future of sea ice" which I am excited to share: doi.org/10.1016/B978.... It reviews both the #Arctic and #Antarctic. If you are interested in it, don't hesitate to reach out 🙂
Zack Labe
Great question! The SIPN team is actually meeting soon with ARCUS to discuss this exact point. We will make sure that all data and resources are preserved, but still need to decide where the website will actually live. We will miss ARCUS 😢
When Earth warms, the total rainfall increases.
Here we show that this change in rainfall is also sensitive to the *pattern* of warming, build a theory to explain why, and use it to explain why rainfall increases more in uniform warming exps than abrupt-4xCO2 :)
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Love this idea! A few that come to mind:
-Wet get wetter (Held and Soden 2006)
-Internal variability and large ensembles (maybe Deser 2012, or Kay 2015)
-Arctic amplification and local feedbacks (Pithan and Mauritsen 2014)
This is the ACTUAL message the the team at climate [dot] gov wanted to send out as their final post, before it was completely dehumanized.
bsky.app/profile/hale...
You know those “Antarctica Today” posts I’d put up for a while, showing surface melt extent accross Antarctica for every day of the melt season (Oct - April)?
They relied 100% on this data stream. Take it offline, that goes away completely.
Sea ice extent uses it too.
Just embarrassing TBH.
Mitch Bushuk
Mitch Bushuk
UGH! When will it end. 😭
"Effective October 15, 2025, due to non-renewed funding, NSIDC has suspended or reduced several Sea Ice Today tools and services."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
Andrew Williams
The latest summary from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)... 😔
"With budget cuts from NASA for Sea Ice Today, we will no longer write mid-month analyses in the months leading up to the Arctic sea ice minimum." - @nsidc.bsky.social
I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.
"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
Kyle Thiem
Zack Labe
Sad to see that leadership didn’t approve of my suggested post language (assuming since this is what is posted) that I submitted on my last day in May as the social media manager.
Allow me share some of our team’s kind words here instead:
Arctic sea ice extent tracked at near-record low levels through much of June, hitting daily record low levels from June 20 to 26. Antarctic sea ice averaged third lowest for the month of June. There h...
nsidc.org
Zack Labe
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
Awful. More horrible science news
"The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."
