Satellite Ice Measurements and HAPS

We’re looking at the latest development in the measurement of sea-ice in the Antarctic, and continuing on from the previous blog there is another announcement in the high altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) sector. Satellite Ice Measurement The next big step … Continue reading

Warm Snow!

This is not a warning, but an oxymoron for two key weather stories over the last week. Firstly, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) announced that 2020 was the planet’s joint warmest year on record – tied with 2016. It … Continue reading

Using SAR in the Arctic & Antarctic

Two recently published scientific papers show uses of SAR data to measure different characteristics of ice in both the Arctic and Antarctic. Firstly, a paper in the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing demonstrated how CryoSat data has been … Continue reading

Monitoring Antarctica’s Top & Bottom

Two interesting pieces of scientific research this week have looked at the changing aspects of both the bottom and the top of the Antarctic continent. As the Antarctic ice sheet is the largest reservoir of fresh water on the planet, … Continue reading