Cryosphere and Climate
Faculty
Research Group Prinz
Research Topic
Research Interest
While the Greenland Ice Sheet receives a lot of attention in cryospheric sciences, land terminating glaciers and ice caps in the periphery of the Greenland Ice Sheet remain understudied. Investigating these glaciers and their local climate controls offers the possibility to translate glacier changes into climate signals of regional relevance. This is of interest in most parts of Greenland, where long-term climate monitoring is scarce. We combine in-situ observations, remote sensing, atmospheric reanalysis data and numerical modelling to an improved understanding of climate change in the Arctic.
Team
- Marie Schroeder, MSc, PhD student
Selected Publications
- Steiner, J. F., Buri, P., Abermann, J., Prinz, R., & Nicholson, L. (2023). Steep ice – progress and future challenges in research on ice cliffs. Annals of Glaciology, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2023.41.
- Abermann, J., Steiner, J. F., Prinz, R., Wecht, M., & Lisager, P. (2020): The Red Rock ice cliff revisited – six decades of frontal, mass and area changes in the Nunatarssuaq area, Northwest Greenland. Journal of Glaciology, 66(258), 567-576. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.28.
- Shahi, S., Abermann, J., Heinrich, G., Prinz, R., & Schöner, W. (2020): Multi-decadal changes in temperature inversions in Greenland. Journal of Climate, 33(21). 9391-9407. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0962.1
