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
Project update February 2021
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
New paper published – Re-assessing global water storage trends from GRACE time series
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
New starter October 2020
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 ocean floor is sinking under the weight of sea level rise
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
New PhD opportunity studying Greenland freshwater flux
A new PhD opportunity is available investigating the impact of accelerating Greenland ice melt on ocean circulation and global climate. The primary aim of the PhD is to investigate the impact of changes in freshwater input on the strength of … Continue reading
GlobalMass paper highlighted in ERC Annual Report 2019
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
GlobalMass at EGU2020: Sharing Geosciences Online
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
New paper published – Sea level budgets should account for ocean bottom deformation
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
New paper published – Can We Resolve the Basin‐Scale Sea Level Trend Budget From GRACE Ocean Mass?
The GlobalMass team has started 2020 with a new paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans and addressing the question “Can We Resolve the Basin‐Scale Sea Level Trend Budget From GRACE Ocean Mass?“
The starting point … Continue reading