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The Antarctica InSync Science Planning Workshop |ESA ESRIN 03-06 November 2025

November 3 - November 6
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

Background The Antarctica InSync Science Planning Workshop will be hosted by ESA at ESRIN, Frascati (Italy), from 3rd to 6th November 2025. Antarctica InSync is a globally coordinated scientific initiative established to address the pan-Antarctic scale of environmental change currently unfolding across the Antarctic continent and the Southern Ocean. The initiative is grounded in an …

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5D Antarctica

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, SCHOOL OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT (GB)

5D Antarctica aims to produce a suite of state-of-the-art Earth Observation datasets to characterise how the coastal ice sheet and ice shelves in Antarctica have changed over the last decades, and to make use of these datasets to investigate the physical processes driving this evolution. This will provide the first integrated assessment of ice dynamic …

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Antarctica InSync: advancing polar science together

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Antarctica InSync coordination team are inviting the global scientific community to participate in the upcoming International Antarctica InSync Science Webinar. This online event aims to provide an in-depth update on the progress and future plans of the Antarctica InSync programme, focusing on establishing working groups centered around key …

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How hidden lakes threaten Antarctic Ice Sheet stability

  A paper, recently published in Nature Communications, reveals that a major subglacial lake drainage event beneath Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier in 2013 temporarily doubled the rate of ocean-driven melting beneath its ice shelf. The sudden release of over 7 km³ of freshwater formed a buoyant plume that intensified the melting effect of warm, deep ocean …

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SO-SIMBA

Prime company: NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS (NO)

SO-SIMBA aims to: Develop and validate novel methods and innovative satellite remote sensing products to quantify Antarctic sea ice mass balance; Produce and maintain a Southern Ocean sea ice mass balance dataset from EO; Assess the changes in freshwater flux between sea ice and the ocean and the consequences for ocean circulation.

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AI4IS: AI FORECASTING FOR ICE SHELF CALVING

Prime company: Science [&] Technology Norway (NO)

The instability of Antarctic ice shelves is one of the most critical open questions in polar science, due to its capacity to drive rapid sea level change at – and beyond – current high-end climate projections. Yet forecasting future instability is notoriously difficult because of the complex, non-linear forcing mechanisms controlling an ice shelf’s response, …

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Warming ocean causing rapid glacier retreat

Understanding the processes driving ice-ocean interactions and their timescale is pivotal in getting a full picture of the Antarctic sensitivity to future climate variability. A recently published study measured 2018-2019 increased speed and discharge of ice and calving front retreat for the Cadman Glacier, and highlighted correlation to a positive temperature anomaly in the upper …

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Antarctic ice shelf demise

New research, utilizing data from ESA’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 and CryoSat satellite missions, offers a stark view of the state of Antarctica’s ice shelves. Over the last 25 years, 40% of these vital floating extensions of the continent’s ice sheet have significantly diminished in volume, releasing approximately 67 trillion tonnes of meltwater into the ocean. This …

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Southern Ocean Freshwater (SO Fresh)

Prime company: ARGANS LIMITED (GB)

Southern Ocean Freshwater (SO Fresh) is a recent ESA funded project (2021-2023) included in the Polar Cluster Initiative. Polar Cluster aims at establishing collaboration with the existing projects in polar areas to put into value of unique, added-value capabilities from ESA missions and remote sensing missions in general. SO FRESH goals are to improve our …

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CASSIS (Climate Altimetric Studies with Sea Ice and Snow)

Prime company: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS) (FR)

Since the 1970s, spatial imagery has allowed to witness dramatic changes in sea ice extension and distribution. However, the sea ice thickness (SIT), which is a fundamental variable to understand and predict sea ice dynamics, is still insufficiently observed. So far, the only possibility to observe the sea ice freeboard (the sea ice emerged part …

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