Oceanography

Arctic Ice October 2010 ... the land being very high and full of mightie mountaines all covered with snowe, no viewe of wood, grasse or earth to be seene, and the shore two leages of into the sea so…

A group of researchers say receding glaciers due to global warming at the end of the last ice age, 20,000-100,000 years ago, resulted in the rampant biodiversity left behind in their wake. Certainly…

We are a water planet but 10% of Earth is covered in ice - ice that is melting in ways that have to be a concern.    To get a handy view of what is happening in the big areas, Greenland,…

Petermann's Progress The huge ice island which calved from Petermann Glacier on August 4th was stuck in the mouth of Petermann Fjord for quite some time.  As I had suggested, it did not get into…

Petermann Ice Island - Now There Are twoPetermann Ice Island (2010) has now broken into two parts.   The smaller island is about 80 km2.  It is the thinner of the two and is likely to…

Arctic Ice September 2010 - Update #1 This is my first update to Arctic Ice September 2010. As the Arctic melt season draws to a close there are still a very few people writing about recovery. …

The Greenland and West Antarctic ice caps are melting at half the speed previously predicted, shows a team from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, The…

Arctic Ice September 2010 As I write these words - September 01 2010 - Arctic sea ice extent as reported by NSIDC and JAXA is not as low as I had expected it to be. image source: http://nsidc.org/…

Arctic Ice August 2010 - Update #3 The NSIDC has just issued an update report for August - August 17, 2010North by NorthwestThe end of summer is approaching in the Arctic; temperatures are dropping…

Arctic Ice August 2010 - Update #2 Since I last posted an update, many things have happened in the Arctic and sub-Arctic. In my last update - Arctic Ice August 2010 - Update #1 - I noted that there…