New AI model reveals the volume of the world's glaciers
How much ice is stored in the world's glaciers?
How much ice is stored in the world's glaciers?
The short version
- A new study led by Ca' Foscari University of Venice, in collaboration with the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISP), provides an updated global map of glacier ice volume.
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What happened
Published in Scientific Data , the study introduces IceBoost v2.0, a machine-learning model developed by Niccolò Maffezzoli, physicist and researcher at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and affiliated with CNR-ISP. IceBoost v2.0 was trained on more than 7 million ice-thickness measurements collected from glaciers across the globe.
Why it matters
An interactive web app allows users to explore the data from Maffezzoli's model for every glacier worldwide: https://nmaffe.github.io/iceboost_webapp/ .
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