Title: Ingen diastitel
1 Rapid Arctic Changes in a Paleoclimatic
Perspective Naja Mikkelsen Geological
Survey of Denmark and Greenland Denmark
2Mare incognitum
Jeodi
3Long term changes Tectonic evolution of the
Arctic Ocean Basin
After Green et al. 1986
4 Climate change through time
1 mio - present
10.000 - present
?
1000 - present
?
Source IPCC
5Arctic Temperature Trends (1966 - 1995)
Ource. Chapmann et al.
6Greenland 2.4 mio yrs ago
Greenland today
Source Funder 1996
7 Global Thermohaline Circulation
8Source ACIA 2004
9Future of the Arctic?
Source ACIA 2004
10 EU Project GreenICE
11 Paleoclimate and sediment coring GreenICE
2004
12 GreenICE cores Paleoclimate and environmental
changes
13Shallow seismics GreenIce 2004
14ACEX / IOPD 2004 Long term records
15ACEX / IODP Long term records
Ice- house
Green- house
Source J. Mathissen, AWI
16Climate Change and Mass Balance of Ice Cap
Sea level changes Greenland Ice cap 6.5
m Antarctic 73.5 m
Source K. Steffen, CIRES.
17SourceGephysical Institute, Cph.
18Authors conclude that models suggest a warming
across the Arctic that is 2-3 times that of the
global increases (IPCC).
Source ACIA 2004