Rapid climate changes in the arctic region of Svalbard : Aktuelle Klimaänderungen in der Svalbard-Region : processes, implications and representativeness for the broader Arctic : Prozesse, Auswirkungen und Repräsentativität für die Arktis

• Main Author: Dahlke, Sandro
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universität Potsdam 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Barents Sea; Franz Josef Land; Greenland; Hatten; Ny-Ålesund; Svalbard; Arktis; Arktis*; Barentssee; Climate change; Fram Strait; North Atlantic; Ny Ålesund; Sea ice; Spitzbergen; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25932/publishup-44554; https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/44554

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...