Out on the ice with a bigger team today, here's a completely accidental drone shot showing our colleagues from the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources deploying some instruments under the sea ice to measure ocean noise and narwhal populations.
DMI and GINR are collaborating in the EU #HorizonEurope project #ArcticPassion which this works contributes to. I was flying the drone and doing snow work for DMI that will be used in another EU project @polarRES, and it will probably also be used together with ESA satellite data: a nice example of EU projects working together in the #PolarRegions #Greenland#Grønland#Fieldwork#Fieldphoto#Fieldwork2024#Arctic#Snow#SeaIce#DMI#GINR#NCKF
The start of the mélange zone in front of Melville Glacier, massive and fresh icebergs formed an ice wall. Large calving event this week, slightly unusual so early in the year and with so much fast ice, unfortunately we missed recording it but our instruments will get the next one. Greenland loses around half of it's ice by calving so it's an important process to understand.
This glacier is clearly very dynamic.
It's an incredible field site, the glacier is continuously pushing and heaving and you can hear it while you're there. Lots of seals around on the sea ice too and many polar fox tracks...
Some long days and no internet so posting a few late pictures now with some fieldwork updates. Satellite image from ESA's Sentinel 2 mission, processed on snapplanet
"We find that the CMIP6 simulations in the central Arctic, with generally thicker ice and snow, align well with satellite observations ... By contrast, climate reanalyses like ERA5 exhibit widespread warm biases exceeding 2 °C in the same region."
Another cold frosty morning but the big freeze is lifting in Copenhagen slowly. It's a perfect #icetodon moment as this morning I'm off to the Danish #GreenlandIceSheet seminar to talk about this place 👇among other things: #DMI's geophysical facility in #Qaanaaq NW #Greenland where we're putting together an intensive #glaciology programme...
We have an exciting new project (huge thanks to the Novo Nordisk foundation for funding), looking at ice sheet processes and #seaLevelRise.
And now we're hiring.
PhD and post doc positions in #Copenhagen, #Newcastle, UK #jobs#climate#DMI#Science
The prettiest #apple#tree in our inner garden. It doesn't produce the best apples but the spectacular bright blossoms in spring fully make up for that! 🍏🌳 @plants
Rain, oh glorious #rain! Last night and today #DMI finally got it right and for the first time in almost three weeks we had some ('bout a cm) precipitation!
Everything plant like just looks fresh, healthy and uplifted (quite literally in the case of spruce branches)
I took this yesterday late in the day. Unfortunately that shows with the long shadows. Larger trees appear to be doing somewhat ok but the smaller trees and bushes do not. Wildflowers do better than last month though.
We've had a bunch of rain. Again mostly in big downpours between days of blistering no-clouds #sunshine. #DMI says the total #rain fallen in Danmark this year is still below the trend.