DAMOCLES aims at reducing the uncertainties in our understanding of climate change in the Arctic and their impacts. The Arctic over the last 2-3 decades has warmed more than other regions of the world, and the sea-ice cover has decreased significantly in the same period. A first-order scientific and societal question is whether the Arctic perennial sea-ice will disappear in a few decades (or even faster, as predicted by some state-of-art climate models). DAMOCLES is specifically concerned with the potential for a significantly reduced sea ice cover, and the impacts this might have on the environment and on human activities, both regionally and globally. [from the DAMOCLES proposal].
 

We contribute to monitor the variability of sea-ice thickness, extent, concentration, ice-type and drift mainly by means of helicopter EM measurements and the analyses of near real-time satellite images. Field work will include snow and sea ice observations at the ice drifting platforms TARA and the Borneo ice camp.