I chatted to the amazing @drgilbz.bsky.social about our new paper (which Ella is also a co-author on!), which suggests that East Antarctica is becoming more prone to surface meltwater ponding. Check out the video below!
Researchers led by @uoyenvironment.bsky.social and @sheffielduni.bsky.social have produced the first Antarctic-wide, high-resolution monthly dataset of surface meltwater using satellite images 🧊 💧
Open access article with data availability links in @natclimate.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🔓 📃
Our research raises questions about the future behaviour of East Antarctica, because surface meltwater is predicted to become increasingly important for Antarctic mass-loss as atmospheric temperatures rise. An excellent comment piece by Alexandra Boghosian discussing this can be viewed here:
Many thanks to @jamesmlea.bsky.social, @drgilbz.bsky.social and all my other co-authors for their continued help with this work, which has been a long time in the making! @uoyenvironment.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social @livunigeog.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
Excited to head into the field tomorrow for the final season of our MAGICaL project investigating Greenlandic ice-marginal lake temperatures. Expecting lots of ice melt based on the terrifying amount of water flowing through Kangerlussuaq at the minute...