This page contains information products and materials presenting the results of the Snow, Water, Ice and Permaforst in the Arctic (SWIPA) assessment coordinated by AMAP and produced in collaboration with IASC, WMO/Clic and IASSA
SWIPA (2011) Reports - Videos - Photographs - Time-lapse movie sequences- Press Kit - GRIS (2009) Overview
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Arctic Climate Issues 2011:
Changes in Arctic Snow,
Water, Ice and Permafrost
SWIPA Overview Report
Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA): Climate Change and the Cryosphere
SWIPA Scientific Assessment Report
Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) 2011 - Executive Summary
(30MB PDF download)
Climate Change in the Arctic - A Hot Topic
SWIPA Educational Summary
(5MB PDF download)
NOW also available in Japanese
SWIPA Review Process documentation (80 MB download) ZIP File
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Short (ca. 3 minute) and Full length (ca. 15 minute) videos presenting the SWIPA assessment and its results. Please note: all films are at least 25MB so please be patient while films download...
All SWIPA videos (3 films in long and shorter versions, and in multiple languages) are available from the AMAP SWIPA vimeo channel
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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.
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Press kit containing:
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on the findings of the 2011 SWIPA assessment and the AMAP 2011 Assessment of Mercury in the Arctic
for release in conjunction with the AMAP Conference 'The Arctic as a Messenger for Global Processes - Climate Change and Pollution' (Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2011)
Summary - The Greenland Ice Sheet in a Changing Climate: Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) 2009
Preliminary results on the GRIS component of SWIPA presented at the UNFCCC COPXV in Copenhagen, December 2009