• The Arctic sea ice extent change connected to Pacific decadal variability 

      Yang, Xiao-Ying; Wang, Guihua; Keenlyside, Noel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      After an unprecedented retreat, the total Arctic sea ice cover for the post-2007 period is characterized by low extent and a remarkable increase in annual cycle amplitude. We have identified the leading role of spring ...
    • Combined influence of oceanic and atmospheric circulations on Greenland sea ice concentration 

      Chatterjee, Sourav; Raj, Roshin Pappukutty; Bertino, Laurent; Mernild, Jacob Sebastian Haugaard; Subeesh, Meethale P.; Murukesh, Nuncio; Ravichandran, Muthalagu (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The amount and spatial extent of Greenland Sea (GS) ice are primarily controlled by the sea ice export across the Fram Strait (FS) and by local seasonal sea ice formation, melting, and sea ice dynamics. In this study, using ...
    • Detection of ice core particles via deep neural networks 

      Maffezzoli, Niccolò; Cook, Eliza; van der Bilt, Willem Godert Maria; Støren, Eivind; Festi, Daniela; Muthreich, Florian; Seddon, Alistair William Robin; Burgay, François; Baccolo, Giovanni; Mygind, Amalie; Petersen, Troels; Spolaor, Andrea; Vascon, Alessio; Pelillo, Marcello; Ferretti, Patrizia; dos Reis, Rafael S.; Simões, Jefferson; Ronen, Yuval; Delmonte, Barbara; Viccaro, Marco; Steffensen, Jørgen Peder; Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Brabante, Carlo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Insoluble particles in ice cores record signatures of past climate parameters like vegetation dynamics, volcanic activity, and aridity. For some of them, the analytical detection relies on intensive bench microscopy ...
    • Estimating a mean transport velocity in the marginal ice zone using ice-ocean prediction systems 

      Sutherland, Graig; Martins de Aguiar, Victor Cesar; Hole, Lars Robert; Rabault, Jean; Dabboor, Mohammed; Breivik, Øyvind (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Understanding the transport of objects and material in the marginal ice zone (MIZ) is critical for human operations in polar regions. This can be the transport of pollutants, such as spilled oil, or the transport of objects, ...
    • Exceptionally high heat flux needed to sustain the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream 

      Smith-Johnsen, Silje; de Fleurian, Basile; Schlegel, Nicole; Seroussi, Hélène; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) currently drains more than 10 % of the Greenland Ice Sheet area and has recently undergone significant dynamic changes. It is therefore critical to accurately represent this feature ...
    • Exploring the role of snow metamorphism on the isotopic composition of the surface snow at EastGRIP 

      Harris Stuart, Romilly; Faber, Anne-Katrine; Wahl, Sonja; Hörhold, Maria; Kipfstuhl, Sepp; Vasskog, Kristian; Behrens, Melanie; Zuhr, Alexandra M.; Steen-Larsen, Hans Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Stable water isotopes from polar ice cores are invaluable high-resolution climate proxy records. Recent studies have aimed to improve our understanding of how the climate signal is stored in the stable water isotope record ...
    • Forced and internal components of observed Arctic sea-ice changes 

      Dörr, Jakob Simon; Bonan, David; Årthun, Marius; Svendsen, Lea; Wills, Robert C.J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The Arctic sea-ice cover is strongly influenced by internal variability on decadal timescales, affecting both short-term trends and the timing of the first ice-free summer. Several mechanisms of variability have been ...
    • Geometric controls of tidewater glacier dynamics 

      Frank, Thomas; Åkesson, Henning; Fleurian, Basile de; Morlighem, M.; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Retreat of marine outlet glaciers often initiates depletion of inland ice through dynamic adjustments of the upstream glacier. The local topography of a fjord may promote or inhibit such retreat, and therefore fjord geometry ...
    • Greenland and Canadian Arctic ice temperature profiles database 

      Løkkegaard, Anja; Mankoff, Kenneth D.; Zdanowicz, Christian; Clow, Gary D.; Lüthi, Martin P.; Doyle, Samuel H.; Thomsen, Henrik H.; Fisher, David; Harper, Joel; Aschwanden, Andy; Vinther, Bo M.; Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe; Zekollari, Harry; Meierbachtol, Toby; McDowell, Ian; Humphrey, Neil; Solgaard, Anne; Karlsson, Nanna B.; Khan, Shfaqat A.; Hills, Benjamin; Law, Robert; Hubbard, Bryn; Christoffersen, Poul; Jacquemart, Mylène; Seguinot, Julien Philippe Joseph; Fausto, Robert S.; Colgan, William T. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Here, we present a compilation of 95 ice temperature profiles from 85 boreholes from the Greenland ice sheet and peripheral ice caps, as well as local ice caps in the Canadian Arctic. Profiles from only 31 boreholes (36 %) ...
    • GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980-2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet 

      Fettweis, Xavier; Hofer, Stefan; Krebs-Kanzow, Uta; Amory, Charles; Aoki, Teruo; Berends, Constantijn J.; Born, Andreas; Box, Jason E.; Delhasse, Alison; Fujita, Koji; Gierz, Paul; Goelzer, Heiko; Hanna, Edward; Hashimoto, Akihiro; Huybrechts, Philippe; Kapsch, Marie-Luise; King, Michaela D.; Kittel, Christoph; Lang, Charlotte; Langen, Peter L.; Lenaerts, Jan T.M.; Liston, Glen E.; Lohmann, Gerrit; Mernild, Jacob Sebastian Haugaard; Mikolajewicz, Uwe; Modali, Kameswarrao; Mottram, Ruth H.; Niwano, Masashi; Noël, Brice; Ryan, Jonathan C.; Smith, Amy; Streffing, Jan; Tedesco, Marco; Van de Berg, Willem Jan; Van den Broeke, Michiel; Van de Wal, Rodecrick S.; Von Kampenhout, Leo; Wilton, David; Wouters, Bert; Ziemen, Florian; Zolles, Tobias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Observations and models agree that the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) surface mass balance (SMB) has decreased since the end of the 1990s due to an increase in meltwater runoff and that this trend will accelerate in the future. ...
    • Impact of icebergs on the seasonal submarine melt of Sermeq Kujalleq 

      Kajanto, Karita; Straneo, Fiammetta; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The role of icebergs in narrow fjords hosting marine-terminating glaciers in Greenland is poorly understood, even though iceberg melt results in a substantial freshwater flux that can exceed the subglacial discharge. ...
    • Impact of runoff temporal distribution on ice dynamics 

      Fleurian, Basile de; Davy, Richard; Langebroek, Petra (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Record highs of meltwater production at the surface of the Greenland ice sheet have been recorded with a high recurrence over the last decades. Those melt seasons with longer durations, larger intensities, or with both ...
    • Local-scale deposition of surface snow on the Greenland ice sheet 

      Zuhr, Alexandra M.; Münch, Thomas; Steen-Larsen, Hans Christian; Hörhold, Maria; Laepple, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Ice cores from polar ice sheets and glaciers are an important climate archive. Snow layers, consecutively deposited and buried, contain climatic information from the time of their formation. However, particularly ...
    • Modeling the Greenland englacial stratigraphy 

      Born, Andreas; Robinson, Alexander (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Radar reflections from the interior of the Greenland ice sheet contain a comprehensive archive of past accumulation rates, ice dynamics, and basal melting. Combining these data with dynamic ice sheet models may greatly aid ...
    • Passive seismic recording of cryoseisms in Adventdalen, Svalbard 

      Romeyn, Rowan; Hanssen, Alfred; Ruud, Bent Ole; Stemland, Helene Meling; Johansen, Tor Arne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      A series of transient seismic events were discovered in passive seismic recordings from 2-D geophone arrays deployed at a frost polygon site in Adventdalen, Svalbard. These events contain a high proportion of surface wave ...
    • Rapid sea ice changes in the future Barents Sea 

      Rieke, Ole; Årthun, Marius; Dörr, Jakob Simon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Observed and future winter Arctic sea ice loss is strongest in the Barents Sea. However, the anthropogenic signal of the sea ice decline is superimposed by pronounced internal variability that represents a large source of ...
    • Record summer rains in 2019 led to massive loss of surface and cave ice in SE Europe 

      Perşoiu, Aurel; Buzjak, Nenad; Onaca, Alexandru; Pennos, Christos; Sotiriadis, Yorgos; Ionita, Monica; Zachariadis, Stavros; Styllas, Michael; Košutnik, Jure; Hegyi, Alexandru; Butorac, Valerija (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Glaciers worldwide are shrinking at an accelerated rate as the climate changes in response to anthropogenic influence. While increasing air temperature is the main factor behind glacier mass and volume loss, variable ...
    • The role of sublimation as a driver of climate signals in the water isotope content of surface snow: Laboratory and field experimental results 

      Hughes, Abigail G.; Wahl, Sonja; Jones, Tyler R.; Zuhr, Alexandra; Hörhold, Maria; White, James W. C.; Steen-Larsen, Hans Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Ice core water isotope records from Greenland and Antarctica are a valuable proxy for paleoclimate reconstruction, yet the processes influencing the climate signal stored in the isotopic composition of the snow are being ...
    • Sea ice thickness from air-coupled flexural waves 

      Romeyn, Rowan; Hanssen, Alfred; Ruud, Bent Ole; Johansen, Tor Arne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Air-coupled flexural waves (ACFWs) appear as wave trains of constant frequency that arrive in advance of the direct air wave from an impulsive source travelling over a floating ice sheet. The frequency of these waves varies ...
    • Sensitivity of the Greenland surface mass and energy balance to uncertainties in key model parameters 

      Zolles, Tobias; Born, Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      We investigate the sensitivity of a distributed glacier surface mass and energy balance model using a variance-based analysis, for two distinct periods of the last glacial cycle: the present day (PD) and the Last Glacial ...