Eurasian ice sheets – Taymyr Peninsula 1998 Project leader: Christian Hjort, Department of Quaternary Geology, Lund University The aim of the project ”Eurasian Ice Sheets” is a largely EU-financed project which, under the umbrella of...
Project leader: David G. Gee, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University The aim of the project SWEDARCTIC work on the bedrock geology of the Svalbard archipelago primarily concerns the Precambrian and Caledonian tectonic evolution of...
Scientific leader: Urban Wråkberg, Center for History of Science, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm Scientific background Although Svalbard is a high Arctic archipelago with no indigenous population, it has been the site of human...
To understand the climatic links between oceans, atmosphere and continents we need further knowledge on the timing and extent of late Pleistocene glaciations in the Arctic. Glacier activity in the Arctic regions has great impact on the global...
After a day of field inventories, the field team passes by one of the exclosures in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland on their way back to base camp. Photo: Elin Lindén In the Arctic, almost all ice-free land is grazed by wild or domesticated reindeer....
Foredeck of Oden showing instruments we use. To the left, a scanning lidar and a microwave profiler. In the middle a scanning cloud radar and to the right the foredeck mast with instruments at the top. Photo: Michael Tjernström Arctic climate is...
The 7th Deck of the Oden Icebreaker where aerosol sampling instruments were deployed. Photo: Grace Porter Arctic weather is notoriously difficult to model and predict. This is partly due to the inadequate representation of Arctic mixed phase...
Matt Salter and Helen Czerski setting mooring lines for the floating aerosol chamber. Photo: Mario Hoppman The weather in the Arctic matters for all of us, for two reasons. Firstly, weather is a global phenomenon, and the atmosphere in the Arctic...
Our main working place on the 4th deck of Oden. The red Swiss lab-container to the left of the aerosol lab where our inlet systems and instrumentation were installed. Photo: Paul Zieger The Arctic is experiencing a dramatic transformation as a...
The research during expedition Arctic Ocean 2018. Illustration: Paul Zieger Every year we hear alarming news about the disappearing ice in the Arctic Ocean. The climate in the Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on earth, with serious...
Ian Brooks working on the cloud radar. Photo: Matthias Gottschalk Clouds are the most important factor controlling the amount of energy reaching the surface as sunlight and emitted from it as radiated heat. They are also the single largest source...
The ocean absorbs approximately one third of the CO2 released into the atmosphere each year, and the uptake of CO2 is decreasing the pH of the seawater – a process called ocean acidification. Ocean acidification is occurring throughout the ocean,...
The Arctic Ocean is a key area of global climate change and has been undergoing drastic changes in the recent decade. As a moderator between the atmosphere and the ocean in the polar regions, sea ice is one of the most important components in the...
Tiera-Brandy Robinson and Matthew Salter on the catamaran while repairs are made. Photo: Karin Alfredsson The objective of this project was to investigate the chemical, physical and biological properties of the sea surface microlayer (SML) within...
Clouds are an important, remarkable feature of our atmosphere. They redistribute water through precipitation, and they affect the surface temperature of the planet by absorbing, reflecting, and even emitting radiation. The surface temperature at...
