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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Interactions and feedbacks between ice sheets, climate, sea-level and the solid earth Illustration: Tijn Berends On Tuesday January 28 a symposium is held in Utrecht in the
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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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The kilometres-thick ice sheets in Antarctica could melt much more rapid than first thought. New findings from NESSC-climate researchers show that between 17 and 15 million years ago, the
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Glaciologist and national weatherman Peter Kuipers Munneke has joined NESSC since April this year. Based at the Ice and Climate Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (IMAU) in Utrecht,
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