Rapid climate changes in the arctic region of Svalbard: Processes, Implications and Representativeness for the broader Arctic

• Main Author: Dahlke, Sandro
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Universitäsverlag Potsdam 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; Barents Sea; Ny-Ålesund; Greenland; Franz Josef Land; Climate change; Fram Strait; North Atlantic; Ny Ålesund; Sea ice; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/52053/; https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/44554; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.ccdac797-e382-461f-9e46-705bee3f0324

Over the last decades, the Arctic regions of the earth have warmed at a rate 2–3 times faster than the global average– a phenomenon called Arctic Amplification. A complex, non-linear interplay of physical processes and unique pecularities in the Arctic climate system is responsible for this, but the...