A special investigation presents new estimates on melting ice sheets and sea level rise. The international effort ISMIP6, led by NASA and with several NESSC-researchers from Utrecht University, has
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On Sunday December 15th, the annual NESSC Christmas lecture takes place. In this year’s lecture NESSC-researcher Peter Kuipers Munneke, glaciologist at IMAU, Utrecht, will talk about his research on
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Melting at the Greenland ice sheet is at its fastest rate in 350 years, a new Nature-publication finds. Climate researchers reconstructed 350 years of Greenland ice melt, based on
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The melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will accelerate and become irreversible if global temperatures increase above a 1,5 – 2 degrees Celsius threshold, a newly published
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Ice caps in Greenland have lost their natural capacity to contain and refreeze meltwater. This mechanism of ice caps to remain stable broke down around 1997, when the snow
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