Greenland’s ice cap surface mass balance grew by more than 400 Gt in the last 12 months, about 50 Gt more than average. This was largely due to heavy snowfall in early summer, coupled with the summer melt starting late – read the news here.
Antarctica is cooling and gaining the ice area
Mainstream Media Silent!
- The recent study by Nielsen et al., 2025 published in the JGR (read the link) confirms the significant cooling over the Antarctic Peninsula in 2003-2021 that has been reported in other studies.
2. Antarctic Amundsen-Scott Station Sees Coldest October in 44 Years… read the post here.
New book publication
We are pleased to announce a publication with the Cambridge Scholars Publishing
of the book by V. Zharkova and S. Zharkov
Particle Kinetics and Dynamics in Flaring Atmospheres Leading to Sunquakes
The contents of the book is attached here.
Summer 2025 snow in the Northern hemisphere as the signs of the modern Grand Solar Minimum (GSM) and little ice age (LIA)
- Alberta, Canada – Snow featured in June – August 2025 as reported in the news: June 2025 – https://snowbrains.com/photos-10-of-snow-blankets-banff-sunshine-village-ab-on-first-day-of-summer/; https://www.tiktok.com/discover/canada-snow-june-2025
- Montana, US: 22 June 2025 – https://www.krtv.com/news/montana-and-regional-news/june-snow-in-montana; https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/rare-summer-winter-storm-to-strike-with-two-feet-of-snow/ar-AA1H58ga.
- 5 states of the US are hit by snow in June 2025 – https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-states-snow-first-week-summer-2089997.
- The first snow in the Carpathians on August 24, 2025, Ukraine – https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/the-first-snow-in-the-carpathians-on-august-24-2025-weather-forecast/
IAGA / IASPEI Joint Scientific Meeting 2025, 31 August – 5 September 2025, Lisbon, Portugal
http://IAGA / IASPEI Joint Scientific Meeting 2025
Prof. Zharkova attends with two talks:
- Symposium A12 Coupling Processes in the Atmosphere-Ionosphere System – AS25-1017 V. Zharkova, I. Vasilieva and B. Bromley, ENSO variations and CO2 abundance exchange between ocean and air, oral talk
- Symposium A13 Middle and upper atmosphere: From solar variability influence to long-term changes, V. Zharkova, and I. Vasilieva, Link of the ENSO index with solar and volcanic activity and orbital motion , oral talk