Glaciers in East Antarctica also 'imperiled' by climate change, researchers find

Glaciers in East Antarctica also 'imperiled' by climate change, researchers find

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https://phys.org/news/2018-07-glaciers-east-antarctica-imperiled-climate.html

UCI's researchers discovered this by applying a locally optimized technique to data from NASA's Gravity Recovery & Climate Experiment satellite mission, combined with mass balance approximations from regional atmospheric climate models and ice discharge measurements by NASA's Operation IceBridge and Measures projects.

"For this research, we used an improved methodology with GRACE data to retrieve the mass loss in an area undergoing rapid change," said lead author Yara Mohajerani, a graduate student in UCI's Department of Earth System Science. "By overlaying these data with independent measurements, we improve our confidence in the results and the conclusion that Totten and Moscow University are imperiled."