#melt : sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of

- French: fondre

- German: schmelzen

- Portuguese: fundir, derrenter

- Spanish: funde

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a curious commission for Elegantvulpine in which an event that can be interpreted as tragic occurs

The water is mostly ice free along the Ottawa river this afternoon. Still some piles along shore.

All #Arctic ice could #melt by 2027, #warn #scientists
https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/all-arctic-ice-could-melt-by-2027-warn-scientists-2644667-2024-12-04

but what were glaciers?
mentioned in human poems,
now just soggy text

Glaciers melt too fast.
My yard's snow isn't rushing.
Spring must wait its turn.

New Map Of Landscape Beneath Antarctica Unveiled
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https://phys.org/news/2025-03-landscape-beneath-antarctica-unveiled.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04672-y <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #Bedmap3 #icebed #surface #thickness #gridded #datasets #Antarctica #raster #model #modeling #landscape #elevation #icesheet #survey #remotesensing #earthobservation #climatechange #warming #climate #melt #melting #seafloor #subglacial #geophysical #survey #topography #geology #bathymetry #topobathy #BritishAntarcticSurvey
@BritishAntarcticSurvey

Glacial Lake Mapping Using Remote Sensing Geo-Foundation Model
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2025.104371 <-- shared paper
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HIGHLIGHTS:
• Proposed U-ViT model based on Prithvi GFM for multi-sensor glacial lake mapping.
• Achieved an F1 score of 0.894 on Sentinel-1&2, surpassing CNNs scoring below 0.8.
• Maintains strong performance with 50% less training data, proving efficiency.
• Excels in detecting small lakes (<0.01km²) and handling clouds and complex terrains..."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #glaciallake #GeospatialFoundationModel #satellite #Sentinel #GaoFen #remotesensing #earthobservation #model #modeling #climatechange #glacial #glacier #melt #melting #UViT #deepleanring #AI #framework #performance #metrics #opensource

Melting together.

democracy melts
faster than most thought it could
climate metaphor

Don't let the 3ft piles of snow outside fool you! It's 6ºC today! (48ºf)

Time to wax that bikini line and lather on that sunblock, summer has arrived in Toronto!

Progressively Smaller Glacier Lake Outburst Floods Despite Worldwide Growth In Lake Area
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-025-00388-w <-- shared paper
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http://glofs.geoecology.uni-potsdam.de/ <-- shared link to open data GLOF Database V4.1
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #glacier #retreat #ice #snow #glacial #lake #outburst #GLOF #water #hydrology #risk #hazard #geology #engineeringgeology #GLOFs #climatechange #melt #melting #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #magnitude #waterbody #moraine #bedrock #dam #dammed #deglaciation #potential #model #modeling #simulation #remotesensing #earthobservation #Himlayas #Alaska #Nepal #India #Switzerland #Sweden #Norway #HighCentralAsia #opendata #flood #flooding #global

Climate change is shrinking glaciers faster than ever, with 7 trillion tons lost since 2000

https://apnews.com/article/glaciers-melting-climate-change-ice-loss-af8ff74dbbb9aabdc537adcbc9eb6010

A new and massive study finds that climate change is melting the world’s mountain glaciers faster than ever.

Warm Seawater Encroaches On Major Antarctic Ice Shelf, Raising Sea Level Concerns
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https://phys.org/news/2025-01-seawater-encroaches-major-antarctic-ice.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020700 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #climatechange #Antarctic #Antarctica #icesheet #warmwater #oceancurrents #ocean #marine #iceshelves #WeddellSea #FilchnerRonneIceShelf #basal #melt #melting #rates #model #modeling #continentalshelf #spatiotemporal #observation #icecover #freshwater #global #sealevel #climatemodels #water #temperature #velocity #seawater #FilchnerTrough #spatialanalysis #oceandynamics

Glacier Melt Intensifying Freshwater Loss And Accelerating Sea-Level Rise
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https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/CryoSat/Glacier_melt_intensifying_freshwater_loss_and_accelerating_sea-level_rise <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08545-z <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #GlacierMassBalanceIntercomparison #glacial #glacier #global #cryosphere #regional #freshwater #water #resources #waterresources #watersecurity #sealevel #sealevelrise #SLR #rate #change #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #ice #snow #loss #massloss #greenland #antarctic #icesheet #anthropogenic #climatechange #melt #melting #risk #hazard #geohazard #geology #engineeringgeology #marine #terrestrial #ecosystems #watercycle #masschange #insitu #remotesensing #local #observation #model #modeling #projection

"I used to write songs on the airplane
Now I just think about people I love dying
Spend the whole flight crying
I used to be so good at small talk
Introduce me to your parents and they fall in love

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How'd I get so serious? How'd I get so loud?
Sharper than obsidian, darker than the stone beneath the ground
Alone upon the mountain looking down, down, down
I'm the idiot, burning myself out"

https://youtu.be/eWM0gCdRQyA

"A new study has revealed the alarming extent glaciers have shrunk over the past 40 years in a global warming hotspot for the first time – and the biggest retreat has occurred in recent years".

#glaciers #melt #globalwarming
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1070736

"The #Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ( #AMOC ), which includes the #GulfStream , stabilizes #climates in the Northern #Hemisphere and beyond.

But a new #climate #model that factors in #freshwater #melt from #Greenland 's #ice sheet has suggested that, at the current rate of #global #carbondioxide #emissions , the current could weaken by as much as one-third in the next 15 years."

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/key-atlantic-current-is-weakening-much-faster-than-scientists-had-predicted