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Jan 08

Freya Glacier: Avalanches do matter!

By Yannika Baier Cryosphere & Climate, Field report, Glaciology No Comments

While rising temperatures in the Arctic are increasing glacier mass loss by extending the melt season, they may also lead to an increase in snow accumulation as warmer air can carry more moisture. While the first effect dominates overall and…

Nov 27

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Into the Wild and Back

By Christoph Ruhsam Austrian Polar Research Station, Field report No Comments

In the frame of mountain and polar research – a thematic focus at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Research at the University of Graz – I took part as a biologist in a student excursion to East Greenland led…

Sep 15

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Pre-opening of the Austrian Polar Research Station “Sermilik”

By Christoph Ruhsam Austrian Polar Research Station, Field report No Comments

Tobias, an East Greenlandic hunter who takes us in the open motorboat from Tasiilaq, the East Greenlandic administrative centre, to the station skilfully steers the boat over the wave crests rolling in from the open North Atlantic. The trip along…

Sep 08

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Studying the lower troposphere at Villum Research Station

By Iris Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate, Expedition, Field report No Comments

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 02

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FREYA Glacier: Long time no see!

By Iris Climate Change, Expedition, Field report, Glaciology No Comments

Glacier Monitoring in Northeast-Greenland in Spring 2022 by Signe H. Larsen and Bernhard Hynek (Copyright: Bernhard Hynek). In Northeast Greenland near Zackenberg research station (74 degrees north), ZAMG in cooperation with the University of Graz and GEUS (Denmark) has been…

Mar 16

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Immersing into the snow

By Iris Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate, Field report, Social and Cultural System No Comments

Snow2Rain fieldwork report from Tasiilaq, East Greenland, Part III Now it is my time to report on our walk into the snow. Well, I knew I would be landing in Tasiilaq when winter and the first snow had already arrived…

Mar 09

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Exploring changes in snow

By Iris Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate, Field report, Social and Cultural System No Comments

Snow2Rain fieldwork report from Tasiilaq, East Greenland, Part II ‘An anthropologist and a snow climatologist walk into the snow...’ This sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but for me, it was the beginning of an interesting collaboration which…

Mar 02

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Into the Snowy Realm

By Iris Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate, Field report, Social and Cultural System No Comments

Snow2Rain project: fieldwork report from Tasiilaq, East Greenland, Part I This report from the field provides an insight into the complexity, challenges and learning opportunities of two early-career scientists during their research for their interdisciplinary research project Snow2Rain. In our…

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Freya Glacier: Avalanches do matter!

Into the Wild and Back

Pre-opening of the Austrian Polar Research Station “Sermilik”

Studying the lower troposphere at Villum Research Station

FREYA Glacier: Long time no see!

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