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Caroline Holmes

@climatecaroline.bsky.social

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Scientist at @bas.ac.uk ; all things Antarctic sea ice and climate.

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Caroline Holmes @climatecaroline.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Defy anywhere to outdo the penguin christmas jumper selection at the @bas.ac.uk christmas lunch 🐧❄️🎄

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Caroline Holmes @climatecaroline.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Evening hand-mend to get some more life out of my favourite jeans! #reuse 👖🪡

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Richard Davy @davyclimate.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The first images coming in from Sentinel 1C! With these first examples over Svalbard offering a glimpse of the boon it will be for sea ice monitoring and process understanding www.esa.int/Applications...

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Sentinel-1C captures first radar images

Less than a week after its launch, the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite has delivered its first radar images of Earth – offering a glimpse into its capabilities for environmental monitoring. These ini...

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Peter T Fretwell @ptfretwell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

At the start of the emperor penguin chick fledging season five colonies have already been affected by early sea ice breakup. The purple dots below show which ones. Not as bad as the last two years, but worse than average.

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Keith Makinson @keithmakinson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This is oceanography the hard way. Before any instruments or samplers are deployed, we hot water drill an access hole through several hundred metres of ice shelf. Don't dilly-dally though, freezing closes the hole in a day or two.

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Caroline Holmes @climatecaroline.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Hi Bluesky! We have a paper out today in The Cryosphere: doi.org/10.5194/tc-1... about Antarctic sea ice trends in observations and climate models (+huge thanks to co-authors, not on BlueSky) (thread: 1/6)

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Brief communication: New perspectives on the skill of modelled sea ice trends in light of recent Antarctic sea ice loss

Abstract. Most climate models do not reproduce the 1979–2014 increase in Antarctic sea ice cover. This was a contributing factor in successive Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports allocat...

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