If you're at #LPS25 come along to hear what the Satellite Ice Dynamics group has been up too 🧊🛰️

"Thanks largely to Copernicus Sentinel-1, scientists have discovered that a glacier in Antarctica is rapidly siphoning ice from neighbouring flows – at a pace never before seen."

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🆕 Research 🆕

⛰️🛰️🌐 Take a look at this fascinating research led by @heatherselley.bsky.social (@universityofleeds.bsky.social), on 'Ice Piracy' in #Antarctica, and how it is taking place much more rapidly than previously thought! 👇

Satellites observe glacier committing “ice piracy” A glacier in Antarctica is committing “ice piracy” – stealing ice from a neighbour – in a phenomenon that has never been observed in such a short time frame, say scientists.

"Because Kohler East’s ice stream is flowing and thinning faster as it travels, it absorbs, or 'steals' ice from Kohler West.

This is effectively ‘ice piracy’, where ice flow is redirected from one glacier to another," said @heatherselley.bsky.social.

environment.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

Speed-up, slowdown, and redirection of ice flow on neighbouring ice streams in the Pope, Smith, and Kohler region of West Antarctica Abstract. The ice streams feeding the Dotson and Crosson ice shelves are some of the fastest changing in West Antarctica. We use satellite observations to measure the change in ice speed and flow dire...

📢 Check out our paper out today: Speed-up, slowdown, and redirection of ice flow on neighbouring ice streams in the Pope, Smith, and Kohler region of West Antarctica

tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...

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