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GRIS Overview Report - GRIS Science Report - Press Kit - Videos - Photographs - Time-lapse movie sequences
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(c) Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), 2009
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Press kit containing:
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SWIPA Phamphlet |
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Short version of the film 'The Greenland Ice Sheet in a Changing Climate' suitable for web/TV viewing |
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Full version of the film 'The Greenland Ice Sheet in a Changing Climate' |
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Full version of the film 'The Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost (SWIPA) Project' |
Short (3 minute) and Full length (15 minute) videos presenting the GRIS-2009 results presented at the UNFCC COP XV, Copenhagen, December 2009, and the SWIPA Project.
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Blue glacier ice, Northwest Greenland © Lars Witting/ARC-PIC.COM |
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An iceberg collapses, Disko Bay, West Greenland © Carsten Egevang/ARC-PIC.COM |
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Surface meltwater disappears down a moulin. Near teh ice margin in the Ilulissat region, West Greenland © Konrad Steffen/CIRES, University of Colorado |
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Clearing snow drifts in downtown areas is an almost constant job.
NEEM ice coring camp at the Greenland Ice Sheet, 77°27’N / 51°04’W, 2454 m altitude |
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The international flag line in the main street of the |
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Scientists and drillers at work in the sub-surface drill |
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The long-term research platform, Swiss Camp, at ca. 1100
m above sea level on the Greenland Ice Sheet (69°30’N / 49°20’W) northeast of Ilulissat, West Greenland |
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Iceberg being discharged from the glacier front of Jakobshavn Isbræ. Near Ilulissat, West Greenland © Martin Truffer/University of Alaska-Fairbanks |
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Drained glacier dammed meltwater lake reveals walls of bue ice. Near Helheim Glacier, Southeast Greenland |
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Soil particles on the ice sheet surface near the margins further accelerate the melting process © Henrik Egede Lassen/Alpha Film |
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The surface of theGreenland Ice Sheet in winter |
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Meltwater from the ice sheet surface is drained through a moulin. The edge zone in the Ilulissat region, West Greenland © Konrad Steffen/CIRES, University of Colorado |
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Heavily crevassed area of Jakobshavn Isbræ near the glacier front. Ilulissat, West Greenland © Konrad Steffen/CIRES, University of Colorado |
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Scientist from Ohio State University awaiting pick-up after installing a GNET GPS station on Timmiariit Island, SE Greenland, as part of the research efforts to estimate ice mass changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet © Dana Caccamise, Ohio State University |
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Meltwater pond on an iceberg, Northwest Greenland © Lars Witting/ARC-PIC.COM |
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Unloading the shrimp harvest in the harbour of Ilulissat, West Greenland © Carsten Egevang/ARC-PIC.COM |
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Long-line fishing in Ilulissat Icefjord, Kangia, West Greenland © Carsten Egevang/ARC-PIC.COM |
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Vessels and iceberg in close neighbourhood in the lulissat harbour © Anders Skov Hansen/ARC-PIC.COM |
Selection of photographs available for non-commercial uses, including press/media use, and production of educational and outreach materials, etc. Click the photos for full-size versions. You are kindly requested to acknowledge the indicated sources of these photos.
| Press_Movie_1 | Time-lapse movie of ice discharge at the glacier front of the extremely active Jakobshavn Isbræ, near Ilulissat, West Greenland. Format: .mov © University of Alaska, Fairbanks/University of New Hampshire/ETH-Zürich |
| Press_Movie_2 | Time-lapse movie of ice discharge at the glacier front of the extremely active Jakobshavn Isbræ, near Ilulissat, West Greenland. Format: .mov © University of Alaska, Fairbanks/University of New Hampshire/ETH-Zürich |
| Press_Movie_3 | Time-lapse movie of ice discharge at the glacier front of the extremely active Jakobshavn Isbræ, near Ilulissat, West Greenland. Format: .mov © University of Alaska, Fairbanks/University of New Hampshire/ETH-Zürich |
Available for non-commercial uses, including press/media use, and production of educational and outreach materials, etc. Click the links to play/download. You are kindly requested to acknowledge the indicated sources of these photos.