Much of the rise in sea levels predicted to result from climate change is attributable to the melting of glaciers and inland ice sheets. A major uncertainty concerns how much of the meltwater refreezes, storing mass and heat, rendering the prognostic models uncertain.
This research project seeks to improve our understanding of the processes that influence the refreezing of water in snow and firn, and to provide more detailed knowledge of these processes. The project will result in extended measurement series of weather data from an autonomous weather station and of firn temperatures from an area of Svalbard for which no earlier corresponding data are available.
Principal investigator
Veijo Pohjola
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University