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Today + tomorrow I'm at the @dmidk.bsky.social #NCKF Danish #climate symposium. It's always a good opportunity to catch up with old friends and brilliant new research. This year, we are also launching a Danish climate status #klimastatus report. #NCKF25
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Today + tomorrow I'm at the @dmidk.bsky.social #NCKF Danish #climate symposium. It's always a good opportunity to catch up with old friends and brilliant new research. This year, we are also launching a Danish climate status #klimastatus report. #NCKF25
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Today + tomorrow I'm at the @dmidk.bsky.social #NCKF Danish #climate symposium. It's always a good opportunity to catch up with old friends and brilliant new research. This year, we are also launching a Danish climate status #klimastatus report. #NCKF25
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Today + tomorrow I'm at the @dmidk #NCKF Danish #climate symposium. It's always a good opportunity to catch up with old friends and brilliant new research. This year, we are also launching a Danish climate status #klimastatus report. #NCKF25
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Today + tomorrow I'm at the @dmidk #NCKF Danish #climate symposium. It's always a good opportunity to catch up with old friends and brilliant new research. This year, we are also launching a Danish climate status #klimastatus report. #NCKF25
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Today + tomorrow I'm at the @dmidk #NCKF Danish #climate symposium. It's always a good opportunity to catch up with old friends and brilliant new research. This year, we are also launching a Danish climate status #klimastatus report. #NCKF25
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Today + tomorrow I'm at the @dmidk #NCKF Danish #climate symposium. It's always a good opportunity to catch up with old friends and brilliant new research. This year, we are also launching a Danish climate status #klimastatus report. #NCKF25
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Today + tomorrow I'm at the @dmidk #NCKF Danish #climate symposium. It's always a good opportunity to catch up with old friends and brilliant new research. This year, we are also launching a Danish climate status #klimastatus report. #NCKF25
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Funnily enough this morning's #NCKF talk @dmidk.bsky.social was also on this topic, though on the difference in persistent warming to different climate forcers: specifically methane and nitrous oxide Vs. CO2. Great work by Joe Nielsen who wrote a nice piece on it in Danish on Weekend Avisen.
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Funnily enough this morning's #NCKF talk @dmidk.bsky.social was also on this topic, though on the difference in persistent warming to different climate forcers: specifically methane and nitrous oxide Vs. CO2. Great work by Joe Nielsen who wrote a nice piece on it in Danish on Weekend Avisen.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r5ofoghdcbtjqiujqpvja4uh/post/3ly2a4sbjbg2o -
Funnily enough this morning's #NCKF talk @dmidk.bsky.social was also on this topic, though on the difference in persistent warming to different climate forcers: specifically methane and nitrous oxide Vs. CO2. Great work by Joe Nielsen who wrote a nice piece on it in Danish on Weekend Avisen.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r5ofoghdcbtjqiujqpvja4uh/post/3ly2a4sbjbg2o -
New preprint just landed in @EGUsphere for #TheCryosphere - it's about our fieldwork in NW #Greenland near Qaanaaq - so if you're interested in #glaciers, calving, #icebergs and melange go check it out...
#NCKF(May blog it later if I get time, still trying to finalise another paper for resubmission #ScienceNeverSleeps
https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025/egusphere-2025-1907/
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New preprint just landed in @EGUsphere for #TheCryosphere - it's about our fieldwork in NW #Greenland near Qaanaaq - so if you're interested in #glaciers, calving, #icebergs and melange go check it out...
#NCKF(May blog it later if I get time, still trying to finalise another paper for resubmission #ScienceNeverSleeps
https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025/egusphere-2025-1907/
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New preprint just landed in @EGUsphere for #TheCryosphere - it's about our fieldwork in NW #Greenland near Qaanaaq - so if you're interested in #glaciers, calving, #icebergs and melange go check it out...
#NCKF(May blog it later if I get time, still trying to finalise another paper for resubmission #ScienceNeverSleeps
https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025/egusphere-2025-1907/
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New preprint just landed in @EGUsphere for #TheCryosphere - it's about our fieldwork in NW #Greenland near Qaanaaq - so if you're interested in #glaciers, calving, #icebergs and melange go check it out...
#NCKF(May blog it later if I get time, still trying to finalise another paper for resubmission #ScienceNeverSleeps
https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025/egusphere-2025-1907/
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New preprint just landed in @EGUsphere for #TheCryosphere - it's about our fieldwork in NW #Greenland near Qaanaaq - so if you're interested in #glaciers, calving, #icebergs and melange go check it out...
#NCKF(May blog it later if I get time, still trying to finalise another paper for resubmission #ScienceNeverSleeps
https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025/egusphere-2025-1907/
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🌐❄️ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲!
We’re excited to launch the updated version of 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹.𝗱𝗸 – your gateway to 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗲𝗮 𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁.
📊 On 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹.𝗱𝗸, Danish research institutions share up-to-date monitoring and expert knowledge on the state of the Arctic cryosphere.
𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮, 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻:
• Surface conditions on the Greenland Ice Sheet and its major outlet glaciers
• Total mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its contribution to global sea-level
• Sea ice extent, thickness and volume in the Arctic
• Temperature anomalies of sea ice and the open sea in the Arctic
• Icebergs around GreenlandThe portal is powered by the Danish research institutions #DMI, #GEUS, #DTUSpace and #DTUByg and supported by data from #Asiaq - Misissueqqarnerit - Grønlands Forundersøgelser and #PROMICE (https://promice.org/).
🔗 Visit the new site: https://polarportal.dk/en/
#PolarPortal #Greenland #Arctic #ClimateMonitoring #Cryosphere #IceSheet #Seaice #ClimateData #NCKF #climatechange
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🌐❄️ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲!
We’re excited to launch the updated version of 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹.𝗱𝗸 – your gateway to 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗲𝗮 𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁.
📊 On 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹.𝗱𝗸, Danish research institutions share up-to-date monitoring and expert knowledge on the state of the Arctic cryosphere.
𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮, 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻:
• Surface conditions on the Greenland Ice Sheet and its major outlet glaciers
• Total mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its contribution to global sea-level
• Sea ice extent, thickness and volume in the Arctic
• Temperature anomalies of sea ice and the open sea in the Arctic
• Icebergs around GreenlandThe portal is powered by the Danish research institutions #DMI, #GEUS, #DTUSpace and #DTUByg and supported by data from #Asiaq - Misissueqqarnerit - Grønlands Forundersøgelser and #PROMICE (https://promice.org/).
🔗 Visit the new site: https://polarportal.dk/en/
#PolarPortal #Greenland #Arctic #ClimateMonitoring #Cryosphere #IceSheet #Seaice #ClimateData #NCKF #climatechange
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🌐❄️ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲!
We’re excited to launch the updated version of 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹.𝗱𝗸 – your gateway to 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗲𝗮 𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁.
📊 On 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹.𝗱𝗸, Danish research institutions share up-to-date monitoring and expert knowledge on the state of the Arctic cryosphere.
𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮, 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻:
• Surface conditions on the Greenland Ice Sheet and its major outlet glaciers
• Total mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its contribution to global sea-level
• Sea ice extent, thickness and volume in the Arctic
• Temperature anomalies of sea ice and the open sea in the Arctic
• Icebergs around GreenlandThe portal is powered by the Danish research institutions #DMI, #GEUS, #DTUSpace and #DTUByg and supported by data from #Asiaq - Misissueqqarnerit - Grønlands Forundersøgelser and #PROMICE (https://promice.org/).
🔗 Visit the new site: https://polarportal.dk/en/
#PolarPortal #Greenland #Arctic #ClimateMonitoring #Cryosphere #IceSheet #Seaice #ClimateData #NCKF #climatechange
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🌐❄️ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲!
We’re excited to launch the updated version of 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹.𝗱𝗸 – your gateway to 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗲𝗮 𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁.
📊 On 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹.𝗱𝗸, Danish research institutions share up-to-date monitoring and expert knowledge on the state of the Arctic cryosphere.
𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮, 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻:
• Surface conditions on the Greenland Ice Sheet and its major outlet glaciers
• Total mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its contribution to global sea-level
• Sea ice extent, thickness and volume in the Arctic
• Temperature anomalies of sea ice and the open sea in the Arctic
• Icebergs around GreenlandThe portal is powered by the Danish research institutions #DMI, #GEUS, #DTUSpace and #DTUByg and supported by data from #Asiaq - Misissueqqarnerit - Grønlands Forundersøgelser and #PROMICE (https://promice.org/).
🔗 Visit the new site: https://polarportal.dk/en/
#PolarPortal #Greenland #Arctic #ClimateMonitoring #Cryosphere #IceSheet #Seaice #ClimateData #NCKF #climatechange
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🌐❄️ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲!
We’re excited to launch the updated version of 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹.𝗱𝗸 – your gateway to 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗲𝗮 𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁.
📊 On 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹.𝗱𝗸, Danish research institutions share up-to-date monitoring and expert knowledge on the state of the Arctic cryosphere.
𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮, 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻:
• Surface conditions on the Greenland Ice Sheet and its major outlet glaciers
• Total mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its contribution to global sea-level
• Sea ice extent, thickness and volume in the Arctic
• Temperature anomalies of sea ice and the open sea in the Arctic
• Icebergs around GreenlandThe portal is powered by the Danish research institutions #DMI, #GEUS, #DTUSpace and #DTUByg and supported by data from #Asiaq - Misissueqqarnerit - Grønlands Forundersøgelser and #PROMICE (https://promice.org/).
🔗 Visit the new site: https://polarportal.dk/en/
#PolarPortal #Greenland #Arctic #ClimateMonitoring #Cryosphere #IceSheet #Seaice #ClimateData #NCKF #climatechange
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Zooming into this (present day) worst case scenario for a storm surge in #Copenhagen to check if I'm going to become proud owner of a beach front property...
Nice work from my DMI #NCKF colleagues on how to plan for #seaLevelRise and #ClimateAdaptation
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Zooming into this (present day) worst case scenario for a storm surge in #Copenhagen to check if I'm going to become proud owner of a beach front property...
Nice work from my DMI #NCKF colleagues on how to plan for #seaLevelRise and #ClimateAdaptation
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Zooming into this (present day) worst case scenario for a storm surge in #Copenhagen to check if I'm going to become proud owner of a beach front property...
Nice work from my DMI #NCKF colleagues on how to plan for #seaLevelRise and #ClimateAdaptation
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Zooming into this (present day) worst case scenario for a storm surge in #Copenhagen to check if I'm going to become proud owner of a beach front property...
Nice work from my DMI #NCKF colleagues on how to plan for #seaLevelRise and #ClimateAdaptation
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Zooming into this (present day) worst case scenario for a storm surge in #Copenhagen to check if I'm going to become proud owner of a beach front property...
Nice work from my DMI #NCKF colleagues on how to plan for #seaLevelRise and #ClimateAdaptation
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The hidden structure that makes modern life bearable. And indeed possible.
And how to #climateproof it from Copenhagen's utility on managing urban sewers at DMI's #NCKF symposium today
This is what #ClimateAdaptation looks like.
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The hidden structure that makes modern life bearable. And indeed possible.
And how to #climateproof it from Copenhagen's utility on managing urban sewers at DMI's #NCKF symposium today
This is what #ClimateAdaptation looks like.
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The hidden structure that makes modern life bearable. And indeed possible.
And how to #climateproof it from Copenhagen's utility on managing urban sewers at DMI's #NCKF symposium today
This is what #ClimateAdaptation looks like.
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The hidden structure that makes modern life bearable. And indeed possible.
And how to #climateproof it from Copenhagen's utility on managing urban sewers at DMI's #NCKF symposium today
This is what #ClimateAdaptation looks like.
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The hidden structure that makes modern life bearable. And indeed possible.
And how to #climateproof it from Copenhagen's utility on managing urban sewers at DMI's #NCKF symposium today
This is what #ClimateAdaptation looks like.
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Kicking off European polar science week with a fringe event at DMI in collaboration with the APECS organization of #ECRs on how to write proposals...
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Kicking off European polar science week with a fringe event at DMI in collaboration with the APECS organization of #ECRs on how to write proposals...
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Kicking off European polar science week with a fringe event at DMI in collaboration with the APECS organization of #ECRs on how to write proposals...
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Kicking off European polar science week with a fringe event at DMI in collaboration with the APECS organization of #ECRs on how to write proposals...
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Kicking off European polar science week with a fringe event at DMI in collaboration with the APECS organization of #ECRs on how to write proposals...
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The great Scandinavian drought of 2018 cost Danish agriculture alone ~ EUR 550million - what are the prognoses for the future?
Great talk by our #NCKF PhD student Rüben Haberli on high res convection permitting #ClimateModel simulations to understand #drought in #Scandinavia
#HCLIM #NMM2024 -
The great Scandinavian drought of 2018 cost Danish agriculture alone ~ EUR 550million - what are the prognoses for the future?
Great talk by our #NCKF PhD student Rüben Haberli on high res convection permitting #ClimateModel simulations to understand #drought in #Scandinavia
#HCLIM #NMM2024 -
The great Scandinavian drought of 2018 cost Danish agriculture alone ~ EUR 550million - what are the prognoses for the future?
Great talk by our #NCKF PhD student Rüben Haberli on high res convection permitting #ClimateModel simulations to understand #drought in #Scandinavia
#HCLIM #NMM2024 -
The great Scandinavian drought of 2018 cost Danish agriculture alone ~ EUR 550million - what are the prognoses for the future?
Great talk by our #NCKF PhD student Rüben Haberli on high res convection permitting #ClimateModel simulations to understand #drought in #Scandinavia
#HCLIM #NMM2024 -
The great Scandinavian drought of 2018 cost Danish agriculture alone ~ EUR 550million - what are the prognoses for the future?
Great talk by our #NCKF PhD student Rüben Haberli on high res convection permitting #ClimateModel simulations to understand #drought in #Scandinavia
#HCLIM #NMM2024 -
Our #NCKF PhD Dina Rapp talking about her latest work on using advanced statistics on old weather observations and satellite data from #Greenland.
#NMM2024 #Wx #Climate #IceSheets -
Our #NCKF PhD Dina Rapp talking about her latest work on using advanced statistics on old weather observations and satellite data from #Greenland.
#NMM2024 #Wx #Climate #IceSheets -
Our #NCKF PhD Dina Rapp talking about her latest work on using advanced statistics on old weather observations and satellite data from #Greenland.
#NMM2024 #Wx #Climate #IceSheets -
Our #NCKF PhD Dina Rapp talking about her latest work on using advanced statistics on old weather observations and satellite data from #Greenland.
#NMM2024 #Wx #Climate #IceSheets -
Our #NCKF PhD Dina Rapp talking about her latest work on using advanced statistics on old weather observations and satellite data from #Greenland.
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I’m lifting my head from the semi-organised chaos that is my office, my home office, our family basement and the office workshop to write a quick post. This might be for reasons of despairing procrastination.
The reason for the chaos is that fieldwork season has come round again and on Friday I and my DMI colleague Steffen will be off to Northern Greenland once again. I’ll try to post a few photos to pixelfed (and perhaps even Instagram, though I swore off Meta products after the Brexit fiasco).
Buoys with GNSS and iridium transmitters (designed and assembled for us by Trustedglobal) ready to be taken out and deployed on the sea ice in northern Greenland. DMI’s geophysical facility building in the background.This year my focus is again on the melange zone and we’ll be placing our instruments out to record the break-up of the fast ice. I also hope to get time to establish a new snow measurement programme – which I partly piloted last year. However, we will only be 2 scientists instead of the team of 4 this year, so this may have to wait until the second fieldwork period we have planned in early June (when the sea ice starts to break up). We are fortunate indeed that the local hunters, who still live a semi-subsistence lifestyle, are both incredibly competent and helpful and willing and eager to help when we go out on fieldwork.
This photo and excerpt was part of my contribution to a display at the Ocean decade conference in Barcelona next week. Last year we tested an open science variant of the trusted buoys above known as an Open Met Buoy. It’s incredibly smart, and completely open. You can download full instructions and make it and programme it yourself, or , as I did, order them from the german labmaker company who specialise in building open science kit.
Last year was a test of concept, and noone was more astonished than I was that the final set up not only survived the ice break up and floated safely down the fjord, we also managed to retrieve them and I hope they are waiting patiently in Qaanaaq so I can reprogramme and redeploy this year.
I wrote this piece on our work last year, promising a whole load of posts I didn’t end up having time to write. Sadly even my lego scientists never got an update. So instead of promising a whole lot of new posts, let me know what you’d like to see and read about either in the comments here or on my mastodon feed, and I’ll try to make some time to answer one or two of them while we go.
The area we travel to is going through very rapid changes now – not just climatic and environmental, but, perhaps even higher impact, social and cultural. I am privileged to be abel to witness it and we try hard to leave as little impact as possible.
At this stage it’s hard to imagine I’ll ever be ready to leave, but the clock is ticking down..
https://sternaparadisaea.net/2024/04/03/heading-north-again/
#Arctic #DMI #fieldwork #glaciers #Greenland #iceSheet #NCKF #Science #technology
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I’m lifting my head from the semi-organised chaos that is my office, my home office, our family basement and the office workshop to write a quick post. This might be for reasons of despairing procrastination.
The reason for the chaos is that fieldwork season has come round again and on Friday I and my DMI colleague Steffen will be off to Northern Greenland once again. I’ll try to post a few photos to pixelfed (and perhaps even Instagram, though I swore off Meta products after the Brexit fiasco).
Buoys with GNSS and iridium transmitters (designed and assembled for us by Trustedglobal) ready to be taken out and deployed on the sea ice in northern Greenland. DMI’s geophysical facility building in the background.This year my focus is again on the melange zone and we’ll be placing our instruments out to record the break-up of the fast ice. I also hope to get time to establish a new snow measurement programme – which I partly piloted last year. However, we will only be 2 scientists instead of the team of 4 this year, so this may have to wait until the second fieldwork period we have planned in early June (when the sea ice starts to break up). We are fortunate indeed that the local hunters, who still live a semi-subsistence lifestyle, are both incredibly competent and helpful and willing and eager to help when we go out on fieldwork.
This photo and excerpt was part of my contribution to a display at the Ocean decade conference in Barcelona next week. Last year we tested an open science variant of the trusted buoys above known as an Open Met Buoy. It’s incredibly smart, and completely open. You can download full instructions and make it and programme it yourself, or , as I did, order them from the german labmaker company who specialise in building open science kit.
Last year was a test of concept, and noone was more astonished than I was that the final set up not only survived the ice break up and floated safely down the fjord, we also managed to retrieve them and I hope they are waiting patiently in Qaanaaq so I can reprogramme and redeploy this year.
I wrote this piece on our work last year, promising a whole load of posts I didn’t end up having time to write. Sadly even my lego scientists never got an update. So instead of promising a whole lot of new posts, let me know what you’d like to see and read about either in the comments here or on my mastodon feed, and I’ll try to make some time to answer one or two of them while we go.
The area we travel to is going through very rapid changes now – not just climatic and environmental, but, perhaps even higher impact, social and cultural. I am privileged to be abel to witness it and we try hard to leave as little impact as possible.
At this stage it’s hard to imagine I’ll ever be ready to leave, but the clock is ticking down..
https://sternaparadisaea.net/2024/04/03/heading-north-again/
#Arctic #DMI #fieldwork #glaciers #Greenland #iceSheet #NCKF #Science #technology
