Heather Selley
@heatherselley.bsky.social
EDI Advocate, PhD Support Specialist & Researcher using satellites to explore the cryosphere
"Thanks largely to Copernicus Sentinel-1, scientists have discovered that a glacier in Antarctica is rapidly siphoning ice from neighbouring flows – at a pace never before seen." @esaearth.esa.int @esa.int www.esa.int/Applications...
Antarctic glacier caught stealing ice from neighbour
Thanks largely to Copernicus Sentinel-1, scientists have discovered that a glacier in Antarctica is rapidly siphoning ice from neighbouring flows – at a pace never before seen. Until now, researchers ...
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Heather Selley@heatherselley.bsky.social · last yr.📢 Check out our paper out today: Speed-up, slowdown, and redirection of ice flow on neighbouring ice streams in the Pope, Smith, and Kohler region of West Antarctica tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/... @universityofleeds.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social
🆕 Research 🆕 ⛰️🛰️🌐 Take a look at this fascinating research led by @heatherselley.bsky.social (@universityofleeds.bsky.social), on 'Ice Piracy' in #Antarctica, and how it is taking place much more rapidly than previously thought! 👇
University of Leeds@universityofleeds.bsky.social · last yr.Ice piracy has been witnessed in Antarctica! 🐧 High-resolution satellite observations spanning over 17.5 years reveal a large glacier has been stealing ice from a slower-moving neighbour. Why is this happening? 🧵
"Because Kohler East’s ice stream is flowing and thinning faster as it travels, it absorbs, or 'steals' ice from Kohler West. This is effectively ‘ice piracy’, where ice flow is redirected from one glacier to another," said @heatherselley.bsky.social. environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
Satellites observe glacier committing “ice piracy”
A glacier in Antarctica is committing “ice piracy” – stealing ice from a neighbour – in a phenomenon that has never been observed in such a short time frame, say scientists.
environment.leeds.ac.uk
📢 Check out our paper out today: Speed-up, slowdown, and redirection of ice flow on neighbouring ice streams in the Pope, Smith, and Kohler region of West Antarctica tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/... @universityofleeds.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social
Speed-up, slowdown, and redirection of ice flow on neighbouring ice streams in the Pope, Smith, and Kohler region of West Antarctica
Abstract. The ice streams feeding the Dotson and Crosson ice shelves are some of the fastest changing in West Antarctica. We use satellite observations to measure the change in ice speed and flow dire...
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