45th International Arctic Workshop, Bergen, 2015
Informations
- Funding country
Norway- Acronym
- -
- URL
- -
- Start date
- 1/1/2015
- End date
- 12/31/2015
- Budget
- 7,380 EUR
Fundings
| Name | Role | Start | End | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KLIMAFORSK - Large scale programme on Climate | Grant | - | - | 7,380 EUR |
Abstract
Recent years have seen a decrease in the Arctic sea ice cover, which occurs through melting as well as export of ice through Fram Strait between North Greenland and Svalbard. The "EastGreen" research project is focused on delimiting the extent and underst anding the East Greenland Ice, which is the immense belt of sea ice that emanates from the Arctic Ocean through Fram Strait. A comprehensive, targeted study of the response of sea ice and ocean conditions in the East Greenland Current the marine margins o f Greenland during Holocene (past 12,000 years) warm periods is needed, in order to place the recent changes into a paleo perspective. The research objectives will be explored via a multi-proxy analysis of geographically dispersed paleo records. These ar e primarily existing records from marine sediment cores taken from shelves and fjords around Greenland, as well as other paleo evidence (for example, lake sediment records, temperature history from ice cores and glacial-geological records) that indicates land ice and sea ice conditions around the margins of Greenland. "EastGreen" is an international, multidisciplinary effort that will take advantage of a number of recently developed new paleo records. The resulting information will provide a means to asse ss the possible future warming response of the East Greenland Ice, and its effects on ocean circulation and Greenland outlet glaciers.