“Once that [the surface mass balance] becomes negative, the ice sheet is on its way out. That’s one of the thresholds.”
–Prof. Jonathan Bamber, University of Bristol
NASA scientists have a new super HD view of how carbon dioxide in the air moves around the world with the winds. They used an ultra-high-resolution computer model 64 times greater than typical climate models. Each pixel grid size is four miles wide.
During late summer, forest fires in Africa produce plumes of CO2.
During late autumn to winter, the bright reds show the three major sources of fossil fuel burning: the eastern U.S., Europe and China. The winds blow much of the CO2 towards the North Pole.
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Global sea level rise is accelerating incrementally over time rather than increasing at a steady rate, as previously thought, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and European satellite data. If the rate of ocean rise continues to change at this pace, sea level will rise 26 inches (65 centimeters) by…
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