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Adaptive Thresholding (AT) For Snowmelt Detection With Calibrated Enhanced-Resolution Brightness Temperatures (CETB) - Timing And Regional Patterns For Case Study Of Alaska
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2026.100390 <-- shared paper
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“HIGHLIGHTS:
• Data-driven Adaptive Thresholding (AT) for snowmelt detection using PMW CETB data.
• AT improves melt detection accuracy to ≤ 1.0 day MAE over legacy methods in Alaska.
• AT captures spatial and regional melt variability linked to snow class and terrain.
• AT is sensor-agnostic, scalable across frequencies and polarizations for broad use..."
#snowmelt #winter #snow #spatialanalysis #GIS #spatial #mapping #spatiotemporal #water #waterresources #hydrology #spatialdata #AdaptiveThresholding #Passivemicrowave #remotesensing #EnhancedResolutionData #Snowmeltdetection #DiurnalAmplitudeVariation #US #USA #Alaska #geostatistics #melt #melting #monitoring #regional

#snowmelt #winter #snow #spatialanalysis #gis #spatial

💧🌏 Greg Cocks @[email protected] · 2026-02-13 · 07:14 UTC

Glacier Surging And Surge-Related Hazards In A Changing Climate
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-025-00757-9 <-- shared paper | https://rdcu.be/e3BIH
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #cryosphere #glacier #glacial #melting #climatechange #iceflow #glaciersurges #surges #movement #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #climate #GLOF #risk #hazard #damage #infrastructure #basal #mechanics #processes #model #modeling #glaciologists

#gis #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #cryosphere #glacier

💧🌏 Greg Cocks @[email protected] · 2026-02-13 · 07:14 UTC

Glacier Surging And Surge-Related Hazards In A Changing Climate
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-025-00757-9 <-- shared paper | https://rdcu.be/e3BIH
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #cryosphere #glacier #glacial #melting #climatechange #iceflow #glaciersurges #surges #movement #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #climate #GLOF #risk #hazard #damage #infrastructure #basal #mechanics #processes #model #modeling #glaciologists

#gis #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #cryosphere #glacier

💧🌏 Greg Cocks @[email protected] · 2026-02-13 · 07:14 UTC

Glacier Surging And Surge-Related Hazards In A Changing Climate
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-025-00757-9 <-- shared paper | https://rdcu.be/e3BIH
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #cryosphere #glacier #glacial #melting #climatechange #iceflow #glaciersurges #surges #movement #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #climate #GLOF #risk #hazard #damage #infrastructure #basal #mechanics #processes #model #modeling #glaciologists

#gis #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #cryosphere #glacier

💧🌏 Greg Cocks @[email protected] · 2026-02-13 · 07:14 UTC

Glacier Surging And Surge-Related Hazards In A Changing Climate
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-025-00757-9 <-- shared paper | https://rdcu.be/e3BIH
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #cryosphere #glacier #glacial #melting #climatechange #iceflow #glaciersurges #surges #movement #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #climate #GLOF #risk #hazard #damage #infrastructure #basal #mechanics #processes #model #modeling #glaciologists

#glaciologists #modeling #model #processes #mechanics #basal

💧🌏 Greg Cocks @GregCocks · 2026-02-13 · 07:14 UTC

Glacier Surging And Surge-Related Hazards In A Changing Climate
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-025-00757-9 <-- shared paper | https://rdcu.be/e3BIH
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #cryosphere #glacier #glacial #melting #climatechange #iceflow #glaciersurges #surges #movement #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #climate #GLOF #risk #hazard #damage #infrastructure #basal #mechanics #processes #model #modeling #glaciologists

#gis #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #cryosphere #glacier

Nicole Sharp @[email protected] · 2026-01-01 · 16:00 UTC

The Best of FYFD 2025

Happy 2026! This will be a big year for me. I’ll be finishing up and turning in the manuscript for my first book — which flows between cutting edge research, scientists’ stories, and the societal impacts of fluid physics. It’s a culmination of 15 years of FYFD, rendered into narrative. I’m so excited to share it with you when it’s published in 2027.

As always, though, we’ll kick off the year with a look back at some of FYFD’s most popular posts of 2025. (You can find previous editions, too, for 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2014.) Without further ado, here they are:

Charged Drops Don’t Splash
Strata of Starlings
Espresso in Slow-Mo
The Incredible Engineering of the Alhambra
Uranus Emits More Than Thought1
Kolmogorov Turbulence
Bow Shock Instability
How Particles Affect Melting Ice
The Puquios System of Nazca
Cooling Tower Demolition
A Glimpse of the Solar Wind
Bubbling Up
A Sprite From Orbit
Cornflower Roots Growing
How Sunflowers Follow the Sun

What a great bunch of topics! I’m especially happy to see so many research and research-adjacent posts were popular. And a couple of history-related posts; I don’t write those too often, but I love them for showing just how wide-ranging fluid physics can be.

Interested in keeping up with FYFD in 2026? There are lots of ways to follow along so that you don’t miss a post.

And if you enjoy FYFD, please remember that it’s a reader-supported website. I don’t run ads, and it’s been years since my last sponsored post. You can help support the site by becoming a patron, buying some merch, or simply by sharing on social media. And if you find yourself struggling to remember to check the website, remember you can get FYFD in your inbox every two weeks with our newsletter. Happy New Year!

(Image credits: droplet – F. Yu et al., starlings – K. Cooper, espresso – YouTube/skunkay, fountain – Primal Space, Uranus – NASA, turbulence – C. Amores and M. Graham, capsule – A. Álvarez and A. Lozano-Duran, melting ice – S. Bootsma et al., puquios – Wikimedia, cooling towers – BBC, solar wind – NASA/APL/NRL, Lake Baikal – K. Makeeva, sprite – NASA, roots – W. van Egmond, sunflowers – Deep Look)

I know what I did. ↩︎

#biology #bowShock #espresso #flowVisualization #fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #history #ice #melting #physics #plants #science #shockwave #solarWind #splashes #sprite #turbulence #Uranus

#biology #bowshock #espresso #flowvisualization #fluiddynamics #fluidsasart

💧🌏 Greg Cocks @[email protected] · 2025-12-16 · 04:10 UTC

Peak Glacier Extinction In The Mid-Twenty-First Century
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02513-9 <-- shared paper
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“📉 KEY FINDINGS
• At +4 °C, only ~18,000 glaciers remain worldwide by 2100
• At +1.5 °C, ~100,000 glaciers survive
• [They] identif[ed] “Peak Glacier Extinction”:
– ~2041 at +1.5 °C (~2,000 glaciers lost per year)
– ~2055 at +4 °C (~4,000 glaciers lost per year)
🏔️ THE ALPS
• At +2.7 °C, only ~110 glaciers remain by 2100.
• At +4 °C, this drops to just ~20.
Can you imagine the Alps with almost no glaciers left?...”
#model #modeling #global #glacier #loss #glacial #cryosphere #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #GloGEM #OGGM #PyGEM #extinction #climate #climatechange #globalwarming #water #hydrology #freshwater #surfacewater #count #metrics #volume #thickness #size #sealevelrise #tourism #culture #usecase #waterresources #Alps #TheAlps #worldwide #melted #melting