‘Vigorous melting’ at Antarctica’s Thwaites ‘Doomsday’ Glacier

‘Vigorous melting’ at Antarctica’s Thwaites ‘Doomsday’ Glacier

A team of glaciologists led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine used high-resolution satellite radar data to find evidence of the intrusion of warm, high-pressure seawater many kilometers beneath the grounded ice of West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier. In a study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the UC Irvine-led … Read more