The Arctic is warming two to four times faster than the global average and Greenlandic glaciers are rapidly retreating, leading to the development of glacial outwash plains with fine glacial dust. When the dust is emitted into the atmosphere, it can impact cloud formation, radiative transfer, and further transport nutrients to marine ecosystems. This project focuses on wind speed, one of the main drivers of dust emission, and aims to identify wind speed climatology and trends at different locations at the Greenlandic coast, where glacial outwash plains and potential dust sources are located. Greenlandic meteorological station data will be used and compared to reanalysis data, potentially complemented by more variables. An interest in data analysis and meteorological processes is required for this project, and ideally programming skills in python.
Contact: Nora Bergner ([email protected])