Snow On Ice
PI(s):
Snow on Ice
Snow on Ice
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Indrani Das | Lamont Associate Research Professor | Mass balance of Antarctica and Greenland ice sheets, and mountain glaciers deep ice processes, ice-ocean interaction, basal melt of ice shelves, grounding line processes, Climate change and sea level rise. Airborne laser altimetry and ice penetrating radar, satellite remote sensing, surface energy and mass balance models, ice surface hydrology, dust and aerosols. |
The massive ice sheet is now locked into a certain amount of decline. But reducing emissions remains critical to preventing catastrophic loss of the entire ice sheet.
Polar explorer Robin Bell testifies before the U.S. House Committee on Science Space and Technology about the threats of melting ice sheets.