The north of Greenland has long been considered somewhat more resistant to global warming than the rest of the island, in part because of the remaining multi-year ice cover in the region. But in recent years, the ice here has also been breaking up with increasing...
The AWI research aircraft Polar 6 is fyling over the 79-degree-north glacier in Greenland, measuring its thickness with the new AWI ultra wideband ice radar system, attached to the aircraft’s wings. Photo: Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and...
A white, endless expanse of ice where it is freezing cold is how most people imagine the Greenland Ice Sheet. But it is not like that everywhere. This year, temperatures were well above average even in the middle of Greenland through December. Image: Dr Michael Wenger...
Wide, white and frozen. This is the surface of an ice shelf and the ice sheet behind it in Antarctica. But thanks to ice-penetrating radar and satellites, researchers are discovering that a whole other world lies hidden beneath the ice. Image: Dr Michael Wenger From...
The idea sounds simple: A curtain should prevent too much warm water from reaching the ice edge along the bottom and melting the ice from below. At the same time, however, the curtain should be flexible enough to allow icebergs from the glacier to drift out. Image:...
