RINK – Respons af Indlandsisen til Naturlige Klimaændringer

The RINK project will see its final season in 2010. Five Danish researchers will be working in the area around Nuuk, Greenland from 17 July to 8 August. The RINK project will investigate how the ice margin reacted to earlier periods of warming, the interrelationship between sea-ice and sea-level changes and not at least how its effected human adaptation and migration. Even though the interior of the Greenland Ice Sheet contains the largest mass it is local climatic and topographical conditions that control the discharge of ice – and therefore the intensity of response to climatic change.

Research leaders: Kurt H. Kjær, University of Copenhagen and Nicolaj Krog Larsen, University of Aarhus