sea level

Climate change-induced melting will raise global sea levels for decades to come

Carbon Brief, a website devoted to the analysis of energy policy and climate change science, has published a list of the 10 climate research papers in 2018 that received the most global media attention, and two originated at UCI. The rankings are based on scores tabulated by Altmetric, which tracks and measures exposure of academic […]

Usually seen as less vulnerable, they carry the potential to add 16 feet to global sea level

UCI scientists are part of international team conducting 25-year assessment

Mathieu Morlighem, UCI assistant professor of Earth system science, is contributing his expertise in ice sheet numerical modeling to the newly launched International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration. The five-year, $25 million project, co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the U.K.’s Natural Environment Research Council, aims to provide answers to some of the most pressing inquiries […]

More accurate maps of bed topography reveal physical processes controlling retreat

Melting polar ice is causing sea levels to rise around the world, but how much of an increase will the future bring, and where? These are the key questions to be addressed by Isabella Velicogna, UCI Earth system scientist, as a recently named member of NASA’s Sea Level Change Team. She and her research group […]

Nine times more ice is melting annually due to warmer temperatures

An expedition to Greenland with UCI glaciologists reveals ‘time bomb’ effects of global warming