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New research project will track changing sponginess of the ice sheet

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16. November 2022

The uppermost parts of the Greenland Ice Sheet consist…

Vegetation drives heating and cooling in the Arctic

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31. October 2022

Global warming is changing the Arctic by causing permafrost thaw,…

For the 26th year in a row, the Greenland Ice Sheet is shrinking

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14. September 2022

Every year in September, the annual melting season in Greenland…

Now we know how much ice will melt from Greenland at the very least

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29. August 2022

Based on two decades worth of measurements instead of models,…

Historic Greenland ice sheet rainfall unraveled

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2. June 2022

For the first time ever recorded, in the late summer of 2021,…

After months of preparations and safety training: The Arctic field season 2022 has started

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22. April 2022

The first team of researchers from GEUS has left for Greenland…

Field preparations: Training for worst-case glacier scenarios in Iceland

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22. April 2022

Glaciologists from GEUS practice glacier safety on a regular…

‘Into the Ice’-documentary follows PROMICE to the ice sheet

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23. March 2022

This year, the annual documentary festival CPH DOX opened with…

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Newsletter 1: An extreme year for the Greenland Ice Sheet

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Glacier safety training – Iceland

Filtering GC-Net and PROMICE AWS data

Geoviden: Journey to the Ice

South Greenland ice sheet flight from QAS L to QAS U (2014)

Greenland climate station maintenance (August 2020 in the rain)

Greenland ice sheet monitoring at the K-transect

Greenland mass balance measurements

Greenland ice sheet and sea level change at Copenhagen

Promice 10-year anniversary

Flying over Daugaard-Jensen Gletscher

PROMICE – monitoring the Greenland ice sheet

Snow Coring on Greenland

PROMICE traverse down the Greenland ice sheet – snow coring along the way

17 summers of Greenland ice albedo – daily

Ice shelf detaching at Splalte (Split) Glacier Northern Greenland 2013-2016

Building PROMICE weather station

PROMICE ablation stake

Sermilik glacier retreat in South Greenland

Weather station in remote northeast Greenland

HONG KONG TV: Segment on south Greenland ice sheet work with PROMICE (2013/8)

Twin Otter flight to the Greenland ice sheet

Greenland and North Atlantic Temperature Anomalies Jan-June 2013

Greenland Albedo 2013 through 6 July

PROMICE – Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet

Greenland Darkening Ice – PROMICE

Greenland Albedo 2013, part 1 – The first half of the year

Time-lapse of a calving glacier in Greenland

Camp and weather station on the Greenland ice sheet

A Greenlandic calving glacier from a helicopter

Animation of a PROMICE weather station with ablation sensor

Animation of an air-borne radar survey

Animation of meltwater affecting glacier flow and calving

Melt stream on the ice sheet

Surface melt on the ice sheet

Animation of a PROMICE weather station

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17 Nov 1593179144078385152

New research project will track changing sponginess of the ice sheet

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'; Nanna B. Karlsson @icymatters ·

8 Nov 1589986615585574912

Very pleased that the video about our 2021 #GCNet #GEUS fieldwork is now available in Greenlandic / Er meget glad for at videoen om vores feltarbejde i 2021 nu er blevet synkroniseret på grønlandsk/kalaallisut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg8CU5HX3EQ

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4 Nov 1588510564174934021

Context is everything in understanding people, politics and climate data. For instance, 2022 Greenland melt is more substantial when comparing to data from longer ago. #climatechange @PromiceGL

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31 Oct 1587072455880982531

Vegetation drives heating and cooling in the Arctic

Vegetation drives heating and cooling in the Arctic | Promice

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28 Oct 1585935705523605505

Sea level rise (#SLR: 📈=🌊+🧊💧) from 🇬🇱Greenland

Since 1990 (IPCC FAR): ~14.51 mm (-5250 Gt)

2022 → today: ~0.24 mm (-88 Gt)

Next 7 days (2022-10-29 →️2022-11-04)📉: mass gain +4.5 ±2.1 Gt

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5001-2021
https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/OHI23Z
https://github.com/GEUS-Glaciology-and-Climate/mass_balance

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24 Oct 1584548478776115200

@icymatters demonstrating the GEUS weather station setup on top of GEUS.

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12 Oct 1580137378643349504

Sea level rise (#SLR: 📈=🌊+🧊💧) from 🇬🇱Greenland

Since 1990 (IPCC FAR): ~14.6 mm (-5283 Gt)

2022 → today: ~0.34 mm (-121 Gt)

Next 7 days (2022-10-13 →️2022-10-19)📉: mass gain +14.2 ±2.8 Gt

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5001-2021
https://doi.org/10.22008/FK2/OHI23Z
https://github.com/GEUS-Glaciology-and-Climate/mass_balance

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'; Zack Labe @ZLabe ·

5 Oct 1577807274059472896

Last month observed remarkable 'warmth' over all of Greenland, especially toward the center of the ice sheet (exceeding 8°C above the 1981-2010 average)...

[Data from @CopernicusECMWF ERA5 reanalysis]

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