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Growing out of an ocean-ice observing experiment in Nares Strait that started in 2003, a group of scientists from Canada, England, Denmark, and the USA noticed that between Aug.-3 and Aug.-5 of 2010 an exceptionally large piece of ice broke off Petermann Glacier, Greenland. MODIS satellite imagery reveals the event with digital data that were processed at the University if Delaware from raw L0 to intermediate L1B data gridded to the location. This event took place about 3 weeks after our group submitted a manuscript entitled "Ocean Circulation and Properties in Petermann Fjord, Greenland" for peer review that has since been published (.pdf). This work and web-site is supported by the National Science Foundation award 1022843 with an educational (2011) and logistical (2012) supplement.
2013:
Jun.: | Decadal Variability of Petermann Gletscher | Presentation at |
May: | Petermann Ocean Ice Shelf Experiment | NSF proposal declines |
Jan.: | Decadal variability of Petermann Gletscher | Abstract, Davos Converence submitted |
2012:
Oct.: | Petermann Ocean Ice Shelf Experiment | Collaborative NSF proposal submitted |
Aug.: | UDel Update: On the frontlines | Press Release |
Aug.: | CCGS Henry Larsen's Nares Strait Expedition | Science Report |
Jul.: | IcySeas: Oceanography of Petermann Fjord and Glacier Melting | IcySeas blog |
Jul.: | IcySeas: Petermann glacier, ice islands, and changing climate | IcySeas blog |
Jul.: | UDel Update: Greenland glacier loses ice | Press Release |
May: | "Dynamic Response of Greenland's Marine Terminating Glaciers ..." | U.S. CLIVAR Report No. 2012 |
2011:
Dec.: | "Understanding Ocean/Ice-Shelf/Ice-Sheet Interactions" | NSF Workshop, San Francisco |
Aug.: | "Petermann Ocean Ice Shelf Experiment (POISE)" | NSF Proposal declined |
June: | "Warming and Freshening of Nares Strait Bottom Waters off NW Greenland" | Accepted Submission |
Apr.: | "Context for the recent massive Petermann Glacier calving" | Published contribution to EOS |
Mar.: | "Warming and Freshening of Nares Strait Bottom Waters off NW Greenland" | Invited Submission |
Feb.: | "Baffin Island and West Greenland Current Systems" | Submitted to J. Phys. Oceanogr. |
Jan.: | "Ocean Circulation and Properties in Petermann Fjord" | J. Geophys. Res., 2011 |
2010:
Nov.-10: | "Petermann Ocean Ice Shelf Interaction Experiment" | NSF Proposal submitted |
Sept.-2: | "Context for the recent ice island calving of ... " | Submitted contribution to EOS |
Sept.-2: | AGU Session C19: Arctic Atmosphere-Sea-Ice-Land-Hydrology | Invited Contribution |
Aug.-30: | National Journal Expert Blogs Energy & Environment | Invited contribution |
Aug.-23: | National Journal Expert Blogs Energy & Environment | Invited contribution |
Aug.-10: | Select Committee of Energy Independence and Global Warming | Testimony .pdf |
Aug.-9: | NYT Blog about Energy and Environment | Article |
Aug.-9: | NYT Dot Earth | Highlight |
Aug.-6: | UDel Update: Greenland glacier calves ice island ... | Press Release |
Jul.-13: | "Ocean Circulation and Properties in Petermann Fjord" | Submitted paper |
2009:
Aug.: | CCGS Henry Larsen's Nares Strait Expedition |
Data Links:
- The Cryosphere Today (UIUC Present and historical ice cover)
- USGS EarthExplorer (satellite imagery)
- Danish Meteorological Institute (satellite imagery)
- US Army Cold Region Research and Engineering Laboratory (Drifting buoy data)
- NASA Landsat
- NASA EarthObservatory
- Ship and buoy locations
- US Climate Change Science Program
Outreach Sites
- State of the Cryosphere (National Snow and Ice Data Center)
- CCGS Henry Larsen in Nares Strait - August 2007 (Dr. Helen Johnson, University of Oxford)
- Glacier News (from a glacier's perspective)
- Getting skeptical about global warming skepticism
- RealClimate, climate science from climate scientists
- Science Friday (by Neil Wagner)
- Science360 (news.science360.gov)
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- "Media Mania for a "Front-Page Thought on Climate" by Andrew Revkin
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- "This is a news website article about a scientific paper" spoof by Martin Robbins (hosted by The Guardian, UK)
Communication Tips
Reading List
- Mooney, C., 2007: Storm world, hurricanes, politics, and the battle over global warming, Harcourt Inc., Orlando, FL, 400 pp.
- Dressler, A. and E.A. Parson, 2010: The science and politics of global climate change, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 211 pp.
- Schmidt, G. and J. Wolfe, 2009: Climate change, picturing the science, W. W. Norton, 305 pp.
- Boas, F., 1998: Among the Inuit of Baffin Island 1883-1884, journals and letters, University of Toronto Press, 298 pp.
- Koch (1928)
- Coppinger (1876)
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