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Synthesizing Arctic Cryosphere Changes: SWIPA Project Overview

SWIPA project aims to provide Arctic Council with synthesized scientific knowledge on cryospheric changes, including sea ice loss, Greenland Ice Sheet decline, permafrost vulnerability. Contributions from key experts on snow cover, permafrost, glaciers, hydrology. The planning process involves reviewing processes, models, ecosystem impacts, and socio-economic effects, benefiting both policy and science communities.

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Synthesizing Arctic Cryosphere Changes: SWIPA Project Overview

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  1. Climate Change and the Cryosphere: Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost (SWIPA)

  2. SWIPA: A proposed Arctic Council project - in cooperation with IASC, CliC and IPY • Presentation by: Odd Rogne Senior Advisor, AMAP & IPY IPO on behalf of Lars-Otto Reiersen, Executive Secretary of AMAP

  3. Main goal of SWIPA ● To provide the Arctic Council with up-dated and relieable knowledge by ● Synthesizing present research (based on recent and ongoing projects); e.g. not a new research project

  4. Rationale • Recent significant cryospheric changes: - loss of sea ice faster than expected - Greenland Ice Sheet declining - declining snow cover - small glaciers & ice caps - permafrost increasingly vulnerable - changes in hydrology

  5. Objectives • To provide the Arctic Council with timely, up-to-date and synthesized scientific knowledge on: - Arctic cryospheric changes - Review of key processes - Summarize predictions from models - Analyse impacts on ecosystems - Analyse socio-economic impacts

  6. SWIPA components:

  7. Project organization • Lead country • Lead • Key experts ------------------------------------------------ ¤ 3 components: - Sea ice - Greenland Ice Sheet - Terrestrial Cryosphere

  8. Terrestrial Cryosphere • Module 1: Snow cover • Module 2: Permafrost • Module 3: Glaciers and ice caps • Module 4: Hydrology: Rivers and lakes

  9. SWIPA: Planning process

  10. SWIPA: Contributors

  11. Mutual Benefits • Policy community to get timely, up-to-date, and relieable synthesis • Science community: Shortening the time from findings to policy impacts

  12. THANK YOU

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