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Graphic of the iceberg meltwater flow in the Atlantic

Including icebergs in computer models helps to better understand past climate change

In their new study Olga Erokhina and Uwe Mikolajewicz showed that adding icebergs to climate models can help scientists better understand the…

Focus: The big melt | Marie-Luise Kapsch, Clemens Schannwell

Climate change is melting the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica and causing sea levels to rise. This could be a disaster for island states and…

Figure of ice shelf

How ice rises and rumples affect the Antarctic ice sheet

In a study in The Cryosphere, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology examined the effect of basal friction and sea level variation…