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A fine winter of scientists: Frost flowers at SERF

16.12.2013

No, it’s not an alien landscape.

Predicting impacts of climate change in Greenland: Substituting space for time

04.12.2013

The Greenland coast spans more than 23° of latitude from sub-arctic areas with no sea ice cover to the high artic with year round ice cover. 

From Space to Ground-based Observations: Remote Sensing of Sea Ice

27.11.2013

Climate change is having drastic effects on the Earth’s polar regions. In recent years, the temperatures in the Canadian Arctic have been steadily increasing leading to a reduction in areal extent and thickness of sea ice.

On thin ice

28.10.2013
The Arctic Science Partnership is in the high Arctic studying polynyas. A polynya is an ice-free site in an otherwise ice-covered area. This particular polynya studied is located outside the Young Sund fiord in North-East Greenland and is maintained by high winds blowing the newly formed sea ice away from the area. Not a place you would normally want to be. But for this small team of scientists studying ice and ocean processes this is heaven.

Stowaways threaten fisheries in the Arctic

23.10.2013
The increased sea temperature expected in 2100 will in itself mean that the potential number of species introduced with ships will increase more than sixfold in Svalbard. These are the findings of a new study with participation from Aarhus University. In consideration of the fact that the number of ships in the Arctic will also increase there is good reason to be on guard - including in Greenland.

Sea ice in the paleoclimate system: the challenge of reconstruction sea ice from proxies

23.10.2013
Centre for Past Climate Studies, Department of Geoscience, together with the Arctic Research Centre are editors of a volume about the subject in the international journal "Quaternary Science Reviews.

The tundra – a dark horse in planet Earth’s greenhouse gas budget

09.10.2013
There are huge amounts of organic carbon in the soil beneath the tundra that covers the northernmost woodless areas of the planet. New research findings from Aarhus University show that the tundra may become a source of CO2 as the climate becomes warmer.

Changes at the top of the world

08.10.2013
Aarhus University plays a central role in understanding the major environmental changes taking place in the Arctic. This forms part of the basis for the decision-making process for future developments of the societies of the Arctic.

Climategreenland - a new climate change website

03.10.2013
Climategreenland is the Government of Greenland’s website about climate change in Greenland. The site is intended to be a resource to help you find the people, the organisations or the information that you are looking for. It also provides an overview of some of the ways in which Greenland is affected by a changing climate and how this is dealt with.

PostDoc fellowship on climatic and oceanographic changes in the North Atlantic

03.10.2013
Call for applications: This call invites to a PostDoc fellowship for research on climatic and oceanographic changes in the North Atlantic, and their effects on plankton and fish. The fellowship will be lead by a steering group, appointed by the Faroe Marine Research Institute in Torshavn, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, DTU‐Aqua and Aarhus University.

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