Melting of Alaska's Juneau icefield accelerates, losing snow nearly 5 times faster than in the 1980sapnews.com A new study says the melting of Alaska’s Juneau icefield, home to more than 1,000 glaciers, is accelerating.
Mauri Pelto
Glaciologist who has spent 40+ years doing fieldwork on glaciers. Science advisor to NASA Earth. US Representative to the World Glacier Monitoring Service. Author of blog on AGU "From a Glaciers Perspective. Grandparent, avid skier, dog walk/runner.
Grand Plateau Glacier, Retreat, Lake Expansion and Island Formationglacierchange.blog Grand Plateau Glacier in Sentinel image illustrating retreat from Island (I) where it terminated in 1984. There was only narrow fringing lake in USGS map from 1948 images. Today lake is 49 km2 and gla...
Climate change: World's oceans suffer from record-breaking year of heatwww.bbc.com Every single day of the past 12 months has seen a new global sea temperature high for the time of year.
Mount Everest Glaciers Limited Snow Cover Persists From November 2023 into May 2024glacierchange.blog The snow line on Mount Everest Region glaciers on May 1,, 2024 indicated by yellow dots on the Landsat image. Note that Nangpa La and Nup La-two high passes (5800-5900 m) are both snow free. The avera...
Baird Glacier, Alaska TTerminus ongue Breaks Off April 2024glacierchange.blog Baird Glacier in false color Sentinel images from September 10 2023 and May 2 2024. Proglacial lake (PGL) expanded from 3.2 to 5.1 km². Tongue extending upvalley toward North Baird Glacier (NB) broke ...
State of the climate: 2024 off to a record-warm start - Carbon Briefwww.carbonbrief.org Global temperatures have been exceptionally high over the past three months – at around 1.6C above pre-industrial levels
Steffen Glacier, Chile Active Calving Season Concludes with Largest Event in 2024glacierchange.blog Steffen Glacier in 2024 False Color Sentinel images illustrating calving events yielding bergs A,B,X and Y that have a combined area of 1.5 km2. Green arrow is Dec. 2023 terminus and yellow arrow Apri...
Dubious Dubai flooding claims run rampant: What’s the reality?theeyewall.com Recent rainfall and flooding in Dubai of all places has set off a firestorm of misleading, incomplete, and even some bizarre theories on social media. How did this actually happen? Turns out it was…