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Apr 05

Antarctic Peninsula Glacier Response to Climate Change

By Iris Blog, Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate

The climate-induced collapse of the Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves Larsen A in 1995 and Larsen B in 2002 caused acceleration and retreat of tributary glaciers, leading to major losses in ice mass. Since then, the glaciers have been out of…

Feb 12

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Arctic Warming: Model Insights and Challenges

By Iris Blog, Climate Change, Klimawandel, Kryosphäre & Klima

The Arctic has heated up much faster in recent decades than any other region in the world. Analysis of the Arctic energy budget provides important clues about the processes behind this pronounced warming trend. Figure 1: Map showing the Arctic…

Jan 19

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Snapshots of Antarctic Cretaceous Paleoclimate

By Iris Blog, Climate Change, Expedition, Polar Ecology

The Cretaceous Austral-Antarctic microfossil record can be understood as paleoenvironmental archive documenting the vast variability of paleoclimatic settings from the middle Cretaceous hothouse to the gradual cooling towards the end of this period. The research vessel JOIDES Resolution and the…

Oct 05

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Polar Talk #9 (in German)

By Iris Climate Change, Events, PolarTalk, Social and Cultural Systems

Am 08.11.2023 um 18:30 Uhr findet der #9 Polar Talk im Naturhistorischen Museum Wien statt. Glitzernde Flüsse schlängeln sich durch tiefe Wälder und Gebirge, Grizzlies fangen mit ihren Mäulern die springenden Lachse. Spendenaufrufe für den sterbenden Eisbären, der einsam auf der…

Sep 08

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Studying the lower troposphere at Villum Research Station

By Iris Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate, Expedition, Field report

APRI members Wolfgang Schöner and Jonathan Fipper spent three weeks in the High North in August 2023. During this time, they collected data about the vertical temperature structure of the near-surface atmospheric boundary layer in the vicinity of the Villum…

Jul 27

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First results from the WEG_Re project

By Christoph Ruhsam Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate, Klimawandel, Kryosphäre & Klima, News

In the first part of our expedition report, we focused on project planning and execution. In the following, we will describe the initial findings in comparison to Alfred Wegener's insights. In the initial phase of the project, we focused on…

Jul 20

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Revisiting Alfred Wegener’s Work in Greenland after almost 100 Years: The WEG_Re Project

By Christoph Ruhsam Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate, Klimawandel, Kryosphäre & Klima, News

Since the approval of WEG_Re (Centennial Climate Drivers of Glacier Changes in Greenland) by the Austrian Science Fund FWF in November 2021, the APRI team of the University of Graz together with the Know Center Graz has been working on…

Mar 17

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The great landslide of Assapaat – a result of thawing permafrost?

By Christoph Ruhsam Climate Change, Cryosphere, Cryosphere & Climate

The large landslide in the form of a frozen debris avalanche occurred on June 13, 2021, at 04:04 a.m. local time in West Greenland on the southern coast of the Nuussuaq Peninsula near Assapaat, opposite Disko Island. Location of…

Climate Change

Antarctic Peninsula Glacier Response to Climate Change

Arctic Warming: Model Insights and Challenges

Snapshots of Antarctic Cretaceous Paleoclimate

Studying the lower troposphere at Villum Research Station

First results from the WEG_Re project

Revisiting Alfred Wegener’s Work in Greenland after almost 100 Years: The WEG_Re Project

The great landslide of Assapaat – a result of thawing permafrost?

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