Ukaliusaq, polar kæruld, Arctic bog cotton, in the low spring sun.
Our GNSS buoys in the glacier mélange are named after birds, fish and mammals and our snow site sensors are named after plants. I don't speak Greenlandic at all (yet), but this is a great way to learn a few words...
Predicting greenhouse gas fluxes to the atmosphere from thawing permafrost
"Abstract: Arctic permafrost is thawing at rapid rates, which threatens to expose large stores of soil organic carbon to microbial degradation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4tBmBbY5mg#Permafrost#Arctic#Cryosphere
Okay, this eclipse will only be visible from the Arctic in February 2063, when the sun is below the horizon, BUT if we get lucky and a gigantic chasm opens in the Earth in just the right spot...
Utqiaġvik, Alaska high temperature Tuesday of 36F (+2.2C) ties for the second highest temperature on record this early in the year. Only milder day was April 12, 1957, when the temperature reached 37F (+2.8C). #akwx#Arctic#Climate@Climatologist49@cinderbdt
Daily record high at Utqiaġvik Tuesday with the temperature up to freezing as of 1pm AKDT. The previous record 31F (-0.6C) was set in 1988, and April 16 had been the latest date in the Spring with a daily record high temperature below freezing. No more. Climate observation at Utqiaġvik since 1920. #akwx#Climate#Arctic @Climatologist49@cinderbdt@ajatnuvuk
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
It was a long way off and cropped heavily. But the Gyrfalcon and ravens were at each other today. Here the Raven has flipped over to meet the Gyr’s attack. #Nunavut#Arctic#birding#WildlifePhotography