Visualization of the coupling dynamics of the ice layer and the turbulent convective motions in the water layer. 3D simulation for the bottom surface at 8oC and top surface at -10 C. Credit: Chao Sun A better understanding of iceberg melting and lake ice formation could provide new indicators of […]

Over the last three years, satellite missions such as Copernicus Sentinel-1 have been used to track the massive iceberg as it has drifted in the Southern Ocean. This map includes historic iceberg tracks, based on data from a number of satellites including ESA’s ERS-1 and ERS-2 as part of the […]

A-68 has now dropped a large chunk of ice itself. The main berg is about 150km long COPERNICUS/ESA/SENTINEL-1 The world’s biggest iceberg, A-68, just got a little smaller. At around 5,100 sq km, the behemoth has been the largest free-floating block of ice in Antarctica since it broke away from […]