How is the University of WI involved? Are other universities/researchers following its movement?
The University of Wisconsin is involved because I have grants to the university from the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs for automatic weather stations and for Antarctic data distributions to others. The University of Chicago is also involved. Why cant you just take data on cubic volume and information about the total number (and size) of all recently calved ‘bergs from Antarctica, plug into a spreadsheet, and make some accurate predictions? There is more to the question than this, I suspect. Trends are important. They do give us clues, but they do have limited power in predicting, especially if the system is changing. The science community has only been monitoring icebergs for about 35 years. I’m sure there will be continuing work on this problem over the years. I was interested in what the accepted academic interpretation of recent global weather events is. I was also interested in the whole ice pack phenomenon after reading about polar icepack reduction in the R
