The Zealandia Switch drove rapid global ice retreat 18,000 years ago. Has it switched to a new level?
- Written by: Andrew Lorrey, Principal Scientist & Programme Leader of Southern Hemisphere Climates and Environments, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
@DLorrey, NIWA, CC BY-SAEarlier this month, we wrapped up the latest annual end-of-summer snowline survey over New Zealand’s South Island (Te Waipounamu), providing a birdseye view of how glaciers fared during the past year.
This collection of aerial photos adds to a near half-century perspective of irrefutable and dramatic climate change...