Nowadays, much is said about climate change and its consequences. For example, the increase in the average global temperature, the appearance of rare and extreme precipitation events, severe droughts, the…
During the 2021 winter, several cold extreme events were noticed, mainly over Asia and North America. However, would this type of events be expected when the global warming, associated with…
Supraglacial lakes are important for the mass balance of the ice sheets because their development and drainage have been associated with changes in the speed of ice streams and the…
One of the causes of the Antarctic melting is climate change, although the specific mechanism is not well known. In 2002, the collapse of the Larsen B ice shelf took…
Ice cores are cylinders of ice that results in a sample of snow and ice accumulation over several years and which are obtained by drilling an ice sheet or glacier.…
When sea ice forms, eliminates and concentrates particles from the water column, staying retained in the ice until it melts. Small plastics fragments (<5mm of diamenter), known as “microplastics” are…
Permafrost is the soil (including rock, organic matter and water in the soil) that remains at temperatures below 0ºC for periods over 2 years. When it melts, it can cause…
Antarctica is an isolated continent but due to the global atmospheric circulation, it keeps a record of the evolution of the terrestrial paleoclimate [1] written in its ice layers. Contaminants…