Funding for the GlobalMass project came to an end on 30 November 2022. Thank you to everyone who supported or engaged with our work over the past 6+ years.
A listing of all GlobalMass outputs will be maintained on this … Continue reading
GlobalMass PI Jonathan Bamber has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) ‘Proof of Concept’ grant of €150,000 to help bridge the gap between the results of GlobalMass research and the early phases of its commercialisation. Read the full University … Continue reading
GlobalMass PI, Jonathan Bamber, and CoI, Paul Bates, are lead authors of a new policy briefing which sets out how Earth Observation is a vital tool for tacking climate change ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) … Continue reading
With a full project team finally in place from late 2019, making progress on the key research aims and objectives was the main focus of our work during 2020 – something that was made somewhat more complicated by the coronavirus … Continue reading
Our latest paper has been published in Environmental Research Letters, entitled “Re-assessing global water storage trends from GRACE time series“.
Its main message is that linear trend values for short time series should be interpreted carefully, and specifically … Continue reading
We are delighted to introduce Fanny Lehmann, the latest addition to the GlobalMass team.
Fanny is part of the University of Bristol’s 2020 MScR cohort in Global Environmental Challenges and will be working to answer the question: ‘How is the … Continue reading
The following blog post, written by GlobalMass team member Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma, first appeared on the blog of the Climate: Past, Present and Future (CL) Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in October 2020 (https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cl/2020/10/16/sinkingoceanfloor/).
Sea level … Continue reading
One of our papers has been highlighted as an “outstanding publication” in the ERC’s 2019 Annual Report. The report says:
“A geosciences publication from Advanced grantee Jonathan Louis Bamber, University of Bristol (project: GlobalMass)… provides an alarming estimation … Continue reading
The GlobalMass project was well represented at the European Geophysical Union (EGU) 2020: Sharing Geosciences Online virtual meeting, held earlier this month. We shared results in four online displays:
(1) A revised sea level budget equation to accurately represent physical … Continue reading
We have had another paper published, this time in Geophysical Research Letters, which argues that “Sea level budgets should account for ocean bottom deformation“.
In the paper, we first derive the sea level budget equation from fundamental principles … Continue reading