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Greenland
How the ocean is gnawing away at glaciers
The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting faster today than it did only a few years ago. The reason: it’s not just melting on the surface – but underwater, too.
Climate Research
Changes in high-altitude winds over the South Pacific produce long-term effects on the Antarctic
In the past million years, the high-altitude winds of the southern westerly wind belt, which spans nearly half the globe, didn’t behave as uniformly over the Southern Pacific as previously assumed. Instead, they varied cyclically over periods of ca. 21,000 years. A new study has now confirmed close ties between the climate of the mid and high latitudes and that of the tropics in the South Pacific, which has consequences for the carbon budget of the Pacific Southern Ocean and the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
EU Project
Retrieving Climate History from the Ice
Climate Changes of the past: The consortium BE-OI has spent three years combing the Antarctic ice, looking for the ideal site to investigate the climate history of the past 1.5 million years. The results were presented at the conference "European Geosciences Union".