Mark Brandon • February 13, 2017 The Metropolitan Museum of Art has made more than a third of a million images both public domain and searchable online. This is one of my current favourites: An Arctic Summer: Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay by William Bradford and painted in 1871. An Arctic Summer: Boring […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mark Brandon • September 30, 2013 Working on the sea ice of the Bellingshausen Sea Whilst wandering around various old textbooks I came across a wonderful quote: Polar ice cannot be studied as other branches of science, philosophy, medicine or law are studied. The study of sea ice belongs among the most exhausting disciplines which […]
Mark Brandon • February 13, 2018 Iceberg A68 calved from the Larsen C ice shelf earlier this year. I wrote about before. As the berg calved it is starting to reveal a patch of seafloor that has been covered by thick glacial ice, and as the BAS press release says this has revealed: a mysterious […]
Mark Brandon • May 15, 2017 At this time of the year we should expect the Antarctic sea ice to be growing rapidly, but after the historic lows of last Antarctic summer, we can see that whilst it is rapidly advancing, the sea ice extent (the area of ocean covered by >15% of sea ice) […]
Mark Brandon • October 15, 2024 I love looking at satellite images of the Antarctic and picking out the icebergs. In the last few years we have had great stories about the giant icebergs A68 in 2020, A76 in 2022 and most recently A23a currently in the Southern Scotia Sea. At the moment there are […]
Mark Brandon • October 15, 2024 I love looking at satellite images of the Antarctic and picking out the icebergs. In the last few years we have had great stories about the giant icebergs A68 in 2020, A76 in 2022 and most recently A23a currently in the Southern Scotia Sea. At the moment there are […]
I love watching the opening of a polynya in satellite data. This is North Water at the NW tip of Greenland expanding over 6 days. You can see the wind is to the SW and it is both pushing the mobile sea ice away from the fast ice of Nares Strait (the strait is named for […]
I love watching the opening of a polynya in satellite data. This is North Water at the NW tip of Greenland expanding over 6 days. You can see the wind is to the SW and it is both pushing the mobile sea ice away from the fast ice of Nares Strait (the strait is named for […]
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 […]
Mark Brandon • November 28, 2016 RRS James Clark Ross is on route to Rothera, the largest British Antarctic Survey research Station. In the next few hours to get to the base she will have to pass what looks like a continuous sea ice band about 15 km wide, before she enters some looser pack. […]
Mark Brandon • January 24, 2017 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 […]
This is a storify of the twitter noise around one talk at a Royal Society discussion meeting. http://storify.com/icey_mark/what-is-the-future-for-sea-ice-in-the-arctic-and-a This is a storify of a discussion meeting at the Royal Society. http://storify.com/icey_mark/professor-david-vaughan-at-the-royal-society