Scientists recorded a total-column ozone concentration of 102 Dobson units, the 8th-lowest level since 1986. Colder-than-average temperatures and strong winds in the stratosphere circling Antarctica ...
This study highlights the role of these events in chipping away at Antarctic ice in a "death by a thousand cuts," the authors write. Though extreme calving events make dramatic headlines ...
Satellite observations allow for powerful analysis of other aspects of Antarctic sea ice cover, such as extent, but they're not well suited to assessing the thickness of fast ice. In the Journal ...