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May 07

Climate Change in Greenland: Timing of lake ice break-up and its consequences

By Iris Blog, Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate

APRI scientists from the CC-MoRe (Climate Change in Mountain Regions) research group at the University of Graz investigated the timing of the seasonal ice cover break-up of lakes in Greenland and identified its strong dependence on altitude. The temperatures of…

Apr 05

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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…

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…

Oct 11

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On the understanding of paleoclimate using modern data

By Iris Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate

Another scientific study of our APRI members from the University of Graz and Innsbruck was recently published on the International Journal of Climatology. The collaboration between Tiago Silva, Manuela Lehner and Elisabeth Schlosser produced a thorough analysis of 25 years…

Mar 16

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Immersing into the snow

By Iris Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate, Field report, Social and Cultural System

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

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…

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Climate Change in Greenland: Timing of lake ice break-up and its consequences

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

On the understanding of paleoclimate using modern data

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