Thomas Shaw

Loves the colder side of the world! Postdoc at WSL, Switzerland

[Thomas Shaw @tomshaw3000]

For those Cryo folks heading to EGU this year, please consider submitting to our session on Cryosphere-Atmosphere interactions in Mountain Environments. The deadline is 15th Jan. See you there! @EuroGeosciences @EGU_CR https://t.co/OSzomCKFUt

[VAW Glaciology @VAW_glaciology]

[1/2] And bad news this year too: despite the snow-rich winter, Swiss glaciers lost 2.4% of their total ice volume in the past year. 🧊 Glacier melt in August was even record-breaking. 🏔️
For more details, see the press release by @glamos_ch: https://t.co/baDOp94u1Q.

[Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy]

Mer de Glace 🧊🔥
1990 | 2023

During this 30 yr-period, MdG lost more than 130m in thickness at this location (Echelets profile)! 😱

https://t.co/fy57CBMNuX
By @AvTetering

[Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy]

Konkordia ice loss (Aletsch Glacier)
2022 | 2023 | 2024

Thickness loss at the thickest ice in the Alps! 🔥
Last two years were record breaking... 🌡️

What do you think of the protective effect of the thickest snowpack in 25 years? 😅

Data/pic @matthias_huss @glamos_ch

[Nahel Belgherze @WxNB_]

Wait for it... Storm Boris unleashed historic amounts of rain in Lower Austria, causing major flooding. St. Pölten received over 400 mm of rain in just 5 days, making this september the wettest month ever recorded at this location.

Just unreal.

[Matthias Huss @matthias_huss]

Today's visit at Gries #glacier was disillusioning. After record winter accumulation, we could not imagine seeing all this snow disappearing so soon! But we're there now, another year of mass loss is ahead. Not yet dramatic, but it might become if summer heat persists.
@glamos_ch

[Simon Gascoin @sgascoin]

Was 2024 a good or bad snow year? Thread!

[Thomas Shaw @tomshaw3000]

This

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

This is an incredible piece of work by @JonathanPieNews.

From the research, to the sequencing, to the performance.

You want to know why so many people are turning away from vapid MSM and looking to political comedy & alternative news? Look no further. 👇

[Marin Kneib @MarinKneib]

First publication from the CAIRN project (Contribution of avalanches to the mass balance of glaciers)! We propose a new approach to map avalanches from Sentinel-1 images and use it to analyze the spatio-temporal variability of avalanches in glacierized regions of the Alps & HMA

[Thomas Shaw @tomshaw3000]

@JamesMLea @uarctic Oh no… bad (yet good) timing. Speedy recovery!

[Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy]

Want to know how much ice is left in Africa ? 🌍🧊🏔️

🔥 NOT MUCH ! 🔥
🔥 1.36 km² ! 🔥
🔥 1.36 km² ! 🔥

(= less than a small glacier in the Alps)
0.98 on Kilimanjaro
0.38 in Rwenzori Mtns
0.069 on Mt Kenya

It was 20 km² in 1900 and 6 km² in 1990...

https://t.co/PhMCNGDbAJ

[Prof. Jason Box ⚡️ @climate_ice]

Glaciers in the Alps lost 10% of their volume in the last two years.

[Ines Dussaillant @DussaillantInes]

The @CopernicusECMWF
European State-of-the-Climate report is out! 2023 was a bad year for glaciers around the globe
In 2023, glaciers lost 600 Gt of water equivalent to 1.7 mm of global sea level rise
@WGMS @eodc and @ECMWF
https://t.co/qp4N2d63pR

[Etienne Berthier @EtienneBerthie2]

The goal of the Pléiades Glacier Observatory is to share maps of glacier elevation changes over 5-yr periods. Soon available... To keep you waiting, below a gallery of such maps for 2016-2021, 2017-2022 or 2018-2023. Red=thinning clearly dominating ☹️
https://t.co/Aqx6Uvs8qC

[Thomas Shaw @tomshaw3000]

3) Cryospheric and Land-Surface Modelling of Extreme Droughts in the European Mountains:

https://t.co/zaINUSrfis

[Thomas Shaw @tomshaw3000]

Our research group (based at ISTA on the outskirts of Vienna) are currently advertising three postdoc. positions in the field of cryospheric modelling. The deadline for applications is 22nd March 2024. Please repost/circulate if you can :) Details are in the thread below:
🧵

[Thomas Shaw @tomshaw3000]

2) Cryospheric and Land-Surface Modelling of the Pamir Mountains:

https://t.co/eyKGooQAv1

[Stefan Fugger @stefan_istvan01]

Mechanistic modelling reveals evaporative flux partitioning in glacierized headwater catchments at the climatic ends of High Mountain Asia, now online here:
https://t.co/AFWNjejqXA

[Thomas Shaw @tomshaw3000]

@sgascoin But you had to walk down the ski run? :D