The implementation of Arctic ice management: Counteracting the annual Arctic sea ice loss by distributing sea water on top of sea ice

The Arctic is warming more rapidly than other latitudes, which can result in the release of additional greenhouse gasses, global sea level rise and increase in extreme weather events. Additionally, this causes the rapid decline of sea ice and an ice free Arctic might occur during the summer in the 2040s. The decreasing sea...

How Much Ice Could an Icy Io Have Lost Through Tidal Heating?: How Much Ice Could an Icy Io Have Lost Through Tidal Heating?

Of the four Galilean satellites the only one without ice is Io. While it is possible that Io never contained any ice the starting point of this research work is an icy Io. As present-day Io does not contain any ice, icy Io must have lost its ice through some sort of ice loss mechanism. In this work the assumed ice loss mechanism is geysers...

Retrieving fall streaks within cloud systems using doppler radar

The interaction of ice crystals with supercooled liquid droplets in mixed-phase clouds leads to an enhanced growth of ice particles. However, such processes are still not clearly understood although they are important processes for precipitation formation in midlatitudes. To better understand how ice particles grow within such clouds, changes...

Simultaneous inversion for the Earth's mantle viscosity and ice mass imbalance in Antarctica and Greenland

Redistribution of mass in the Earth due to Pleistocene deglaciation and to present-day glacial melting induces secular changes in the Earth's gravitational field. The Earth is affected today by the former mechanism because of the viscous memory of the mantle and by the latter because of ongoing surface mass redistribution and related elastic...