Mark Brandon • May 15, 2017 Approaching the middle of May and well into the Arctic sea ice retreat we can see that the sea ice extent (area of ocean with at least 15% sea ice) is still well below the mean over the satellite record. Arctic sea ice extent to 53 May 2017 from […]
I very much like looking at the AQUA and TERRA MODIS sensor images every now and then. Today I saw this beautiful image off the southern tip of Greenland which was captured on 23rd February 2015. Sea ice off Cape Farewell, Greenland What you are looking at are three different white things: snow on Greenland, […]
I was asked “what is an easy way to get a satellite image into Google Earth?”. Once I explained how I do it I thought it may be of interest to others. NASA have provided a really excellent web interface to some of their visual data called Worldview. The Worldview description puts into perspective how […]
[This is a post bringing together things I have done elsewhere whilst learning how to use this platform.] I am a huge fan of the Natural Environment Research Council, and used to work for the British Antarctic Survey. It is a fact that in the UK at the moment the community has some very tough […]
Mark Brandon • November 24, 2017 Being interested in the Weddell Polynya I plotted some time series data from 1 September 2017 to 23 November 2017. On the left-hand panel, you can see the see the sea ice concentration, on the right-hand panel, the anomaly of the concentration each day compared with a mean from […]
Greenland’s ice sheet suffered major melting in July 2019, dumping billions of tons of meltwater into the Atlantic Ocena. Jennifer Latuperisa-Andresen/Unsplash, CC BY-SA Mark Brandon, The Open University The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the UN body responsible for communicating the science of climate breakdown – has released its long-awaited Special Report on […]
The sea Ice is too heavy for the RRS James Clark Ross to make Rothera base right now. You may have thought the sea ice on the satellite images didn’t look too bad, but it’s all about how thick the sea ice is, and where the open water is. To quote the radio officer Mike Gloistein: […]
Mark Brandon • December 23, 2016 It’s been quite a year in the Arctic. Over the winter 2015/6 we had the strongest and coldest Arctic polar vortex of the last 68 years. This contributed to a low maximum in Arctic sea ice extent. At that stage only the locals and the scientists were looking, and I […]
On twitter this pm is a not unexpected, but rather interesting looking opportunity for those who are confident about their leadership abilities. [news] NERC seeks new Director for BAS: NERC is looking for a new BAS director; full details are available on th… http://t.co/eCHWDIsv — British Antarctic Survey 🐧 (@BAS_News) December 21, 2012 Follow a […]
This is the 2012 sea ice extent for both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The day of year and the calendar day are at the bottom. I chose 2012 only because it is the most recent complete year in this data set. My reason for making this video is because there have been a couple […]
icey_mark • December 13, 2012 I was lucky enough on Tuesday night to get to go to a preview Screening of James Balog’s film Chasing Ice at the wonderful Curzon Soho cinema After it ended I was on the stage with the incredible polar photographer Nick Cobbing, the wonderful polar experienced and influenced artist Michèle […]
The sea ice around Antarctic is currently still at an historic low. As usual I think it is good to look at a geographic perspective on the sea ice distribution. This is the sea ice concentration 22 January 2017 compared with the 1989-1993 mean on the 22 January. RED shades = less sea ice than the 1989-93 mean […]
Mark Brandon • September 16, 2016 Just noticed this on the MODIS sensor on the TERRA satellite image from 10 September 2016. (Tile Antarctica_rc05c01 if you are interested in that sort of thing) Antarctic Sound on the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula 10 Sept 2016 The Antarctic sea ice ice extent map for 10 September 2016 […]
Mark Brandon • September 28, 2017 With three of my Open University colleagues: Dr Phil Sexton, Dr Pallavi Anand, and Dr Mandy Dyson, I have been working in the background on a new landmark TV series called Blue Planet 2. This incredible series has been made by the BBC Natural History Unit with the Open […]