🚨 new study alert🚨
Antarctica, after net losing ice through the noughts and teens started to level off and gain ice the last 5 years.
We show that westerly winds and atmospheric rivers as well as sea ice loss helps to explain the pattern.
The brilliant nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqjddrgk049sns7eljvh2dj0svsa8vmtg5gaj7lp2dxssnnzzczwrqa56l2z (nprofile…6l2z) led a fine paper with colleagues at DMI, KNMI and in New Zealand.
I will post a pop sci blog on it later, but read the whole thing here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03242-3
Ruth Mottram
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2026-03-20 06:14:14 UTC
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