April 17, 2013 - Arctic Circle Traverse 2013 - It's all about melting snow
May 2, 2013: "lots of blowing snow so we are stuck in the tent"
Being a group of six scientists we'll head off to Kangerlussuaq, western Greenland, on April 19. Our team aims at recording and studying the traces that the recent warm summers left on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. One year ago we found indicators of changes due to increasing summer-melt at one particular location; this year we are going back to perform more detailed measurements over a much larger area.April 18, 2013: Cold cold cold
Can't say it will be a pleasant experience at 25 C below freezing!April 23, 2013: Dirty Cold
We wake up on put-in morning and check the Greenland Climate Network (GC-Net) real-time weather feed from our initial destination on the ice sheet (Dye-2)...it's almost -39 C. That's pretty much the point where the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales are equal. Ugh...April 24, 2013: Camped here. Really cold.
Really cold. dunno temp or chill factor.April 30, 2013: Weather colder than last year and everything takes longer than planned
May 2, 2013: "lots of blowing snow so we are stuck in the tent"
Today we had 70+ km/h winds, lots of blowing snow so we are stuck in the tent still at KAN_U. Dirk"
The map below illustrates how temperatures have been ~10 C below normal (brrrr) the past 10 days while our campers are trying to work.
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