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Study Highlights Decline in Water Storage in the Indus Basin
A new study published in AGU's Water Resources Research warns of a drastic decline in groundwater storage in the Indus Basin, threatening water security for millions in South Asia. The research…
NASA Scientist Dr. Allison Chartrand Explores the Future of Glaciers
In celebration of this year's Chemists Celebrate Earth Week theme, "Glaciers: Hot Topic, Cool Chemistry!", science journalist Meg A. Mole conducted an insightful interview with Byrd Center's…
A Novel Use of Artificial Intelligence in Filling the Data Gap for GRACE and GRACE-FO Missions Using ERA5-Land Reanalysis
A new study published in Science of Remote Sensing presents a substantial improvement in reconstructing missing data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its successor,…
Accelerating Ice Flow and Climate Change Spur Rapid Crevasse Expansion in Greenland
A new study published this week in Nature Geoscience reveals that in response to climate change, the Greenland Ice Sheet is developing significantly more surface crevasses in key regions —a change…
Greenland's Bedrock Shifts Reveal Surprising Summer Meltwater Storage
In a recent study published in Nature, an international research team including Michael Bevis and C.K. Shum—professors at The Ohio State University's School of Earth Sciences and principal…
Accelerated Thinning and Retreat at Thwaites Glacier Due to Ice-Shelf Channel Intersections at Grounding Zones
Last month, the European Geosciences Union's (EGU's) The Cryosphere published a study investigating the interaction between ice-shelf channels and the grounding zone of Thwaites Glacier. The…
The Role of the European Space Agency's CryoSat in Decoding Thwaites Glacier's Retreat
The European Space Agency's (ESA's) CryoSat mission has provided invaluable insights on the retreat of the Thwaites Glacier ice shelf in West Antarctica, as detailed in the study "Basal channels,…
Climate Change Intensifies Risk of Devastating Floods in Sikkim Himalaya
A recent study published in the journal Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, led by the Byrd Center's Postdoctoral Scholar Saurabh Kaushik highlights the increasing threat of…
Assessing the Thickness of Antarctic Ice Shelves: Concurrent Airborne Altimetry and Ice Measurements Reveal Thinner Profiles Than Expected
Recent research published in the Journal of Glaciology is the first large-scale study of its kind focusing on the accuracy of estimating the thickness and mass loss of Antarctic ice…