In recent decades, surface air temperature (SAT) data from Global reanalyses points to
maximum warming over the northern Barents area. However, a scarcity of observations …

The melting of glaciers and ice caps accounts for about one-third of current sea-level rise,–,
exceeding the mass loss from the more voluminous Greenland or Antarctic Ice Sheets,. The …

The impacts of the changing climate on the biological world vary across latitudes, habitats
and spatial scales. By contrast, the time of day at which these changes are occurring has …

The productive performance of large ungulates in extensive pastoral grazing systems is
modulated simultaneously by the effects of climate change and human intervention …

In 2011, a first comprehensive assessment of the footprints of climate change on Arctic
marine ecosystems (such as altered distribution ranges, abundances, growth and body …

Since the first estimates of Svalbard-wide glacier mass balance were made in the early
2000s, there has been great progress in remote sensing and modeling of mass balance …

The cryosphere web portal maintained by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET
Norway), https://cryo. met. no, provides access to the latest operational data and the current …

Isfjorden, a broad Arctic fjord in western Spitsbergen, has shown significant changes in
hydrography and inflow of Atlantic Water (AW) the last decades that only recently have been …

Compared to other Arctic ice masses, Svalbard glaciers are low-elevated with flat interior
accumulation areas, resulting in a marked peak in their current hypsometry (area-elevation …

Active layer probing in northern Sweden, northeast Greenland, and central Svalbard
indicates active layer thickening has occurred at Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring …