[HTML][HTML] Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts

MA Wulder, DP Roy, VC Radeloff, TR Loveland… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Since 1972, the Landsat program has been continually monitoring the Earth, to now provide
50 years of digital, multispectral, medium spatial resolution observations. Over this time …

[HTML][HTML] Need and vision for global medium-resolution Landsat and Sentinel-2 data products

VC Radeloff, DP Roy, MA Wulder, M Anderson… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Global changes in climate and land use are threatening natural ecosystems, biodiversity,
and the ecosystem services people rely on. This is why it is necessary to track and monitor …

Response of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to past and future climate change

CR Stokes, NJ Abram, MJ Bentley, TL Edwards… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The East Antarctic Ice Sheet contains the vast majority of Earth's glacier ice (about
52 metres sea-level equivalent), but is often viewed as less vulnerable to global warming …

Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications

MA Wulder, TR Loveland, DP Roy, CJ Crawford… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Formal planning and development of what became the first Landsat satellite commenced
over 50 years ago in 1967. Now, having collected earth observation data for well over four …

Revisiting Antarctic ice loss due to marine ice-cliff instability

TL Edwards, MA Brandon, G Durand, NR Edwards… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Predictions for sea-level rise this century due to melt from Antarctica range from zero to more
than one metre. The highest predictions are driven by the controversial marine ice-cliff …

Vulnerability of Antarctica's ice shelves to meltwater-driven fracture

CY Lai, J Kingslake, MG Wearing, PHC Chen… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Atmospheric warming threatens to accelerate the retreat of the Antarctic Ice Sheet by
increasing surface melting and facilitating 'hydrofracturing',,,,,–, where meltwater flows into …

Variable temperature thresholds of melt pond formation on Antarctic ice shelves

JM van Wessem, MR van den Broeke… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
It has been argued that the− 5° C annual mean 2 m air temperature isotherm defines a limit
of ice shelf viability on the Antarctic Peninsula as melt ponding increases at higher …

Observing and modeling ice sheet surface mass balance

JTM Lenaerts, B Medley… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Surface mass balance (SMB) provides mass input to the surface of the Antarctic and
Greenland Ice Sheets and therefore comprises an important control on ice sheet mass …

Choosing the future of Antarctica

SR Rintoul, SL Chown, RM DeConto, MH England… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
We present two narratives on the future of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, from the
perspective of an observer looking back from 2070. In the first scenario, greenhouse gas …

Surface melt and runoff on Antarctic ice shelves at 1.5 C, 2 C, and 4 C of future warming

E Gilbert, C Kittel - Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The future surface mass balance (SMB) of Antarctic ice shelves has not been constrained
with models of sufficient resolution and complexity. Here, we force the high‐resolution …