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New AI model reveals the volume of the world's glaciers
How much ice is stored in the world's glaciers? And where exactly is it located?
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A study by Ca' Foscari University of Venice and Italy’s Institute of Polar Sciences has produced an updated global map of glacier ice volume using a new machine‑learning model called IceBoost v2.0. Developed by physicist Niccolò Maffezzoli, the model was trained on more than seven million ice‑thickness measurements from glaciers worldwide. The research, published in Scientific Data, quantifies the total amount of ice stored in the world’s glaciers and identifies their precise locations, referencing the latest glacier inventories RGI v6 and RGI v7.
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