Recent research in AMS journals spotlights tornado emergencies, kilometer-scale global weather forecasting, a new normal for polar sea ice, links between Tibetan snow cover and intense tropical cyclones, and more.

The ice mass in the Antarctic is an important indicator for rising sea levels triggered by climate change. In spite of numerous research projects and permanent satellite observation, however, there is a lack of data required to accurately predict ice loss. This is the conclusion reached by an international study involving geographers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). Especially the properties of the bedrock along the approximately 20,000 kilometer long coastline of the Antarctic are largely unexplored, and yet this would be crucial for the interpretation and modeling of complex ice movements. The results of the study have been published in the journal “Reviews of Geophysics”.