• Glacier response to the Little Ice Age during the Neoglacial cooling in Greenland 

      Kjær, Kurt H.; Bjørk, Anders A.; Kjeldsen, Kristian K.; Hansen, Eric S.; Andresen, Camilla S.; Siggaard-Andersen, Marie-Louise; Khan, Shfaqat Abbas; Søndergaard, Anne Sofie; Colgan, William; Schomacker, Anders; Woodroffe, Sarah; Funder, Svend; Rouillard, Alexandra; Jensen, Jens Fog; Larsen, Nicolaj K. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-04)
      In the Northern Hemisphere, an insolation driven Early to Middle Holocene Thermal Maximum was followed by a Neoglacial cooling that culminated during the Little Ice Age (LIA). Here, we review the glacier response to this Neoglacial cooling in Greenland. Changes in the ice margins of outlet glaciers from the Greenland Ice Sheet as well as local glaciers and ice caps are synthesized Greenland-wide. ...
    • Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise 

      Box, Jason E.; Hubbard, Alun Lloyd; Bahr, David B.; Colgan, William T.; Fettweis, Xavier; Mankoff, Kenneth D.; Wehrlé, Adrien; Noel, Brice; Van Den Broeke, Michiel R.; Wouters, Bert; Bjørk, Anders A.; Fausto, Robert S. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-29)
      Ice loss from the Greenland ice sheet is one of the largest sources of contemporary sea-level rise (SLR). While process-based models place timescales on Greenland’s deglaciation, their confidence is obscured by model shortcomings including imprecise atmospheric and oceanic couplings. Here, we present a complementary approach resolving ice sheet disequilibrium with climate constrained by satellite-derived ...
    • Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics 

      Wang, Yucheng; Pedersen, Mikkel W.; Alsos, Inger Greve; De Sanctis, Bianca; Racimo, Fernando; Prohaska, Ana; Coissac, Eric; Owens, Hannah L.; Merkel, Marie Føreid; Fernandez-Guerra, Antonio; Rouillard, Alexandra; Lammers, Youri; Alberti, Adriana; Denoeud, France; Money, Daniel; Ruter, Anthony H.; McColl, Hugh; Larsen, Nicolaj K.; Cherezova, Anna A.; Edwards, Mary E.; Fedorov, Grigory B.; Haile, James; Orlando, Ludovic; Vinner, Lasse; Korneliussen, Thorfinn S.; Beilman, David W.; Bjørk, Anders A.; Cao, Jialu; Dockter, Christoph; Esdale, Julie; Gusarova, Galina; Kjeldsen, Kristian K.; Mangerud, Jan; Rasic, Jeffrey T.; Skadhauge, Birgitte; Svendsen, John Inge; Tikhonov, Alexei N.; Wincker, Patrick; Xing, Yingchun; Zhang, Yubin; Froese, Duane G.; Rahbek, Carsten; Nogues, David B; Holden, Philip B.; Edwards, Neil R.; Durbin, Richard; Meltzer, David J.; Kjær, Kurt H.; Moller, Per; Willerslev, Eske (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-20)
      During the last glacial–interglacial cycle, Arctic biotas experienced substantial climatic changes, yet the nature, extent and rate of their responses are not fully understood1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. Here we report a large-scale environmental DNA metagenomic study of ancient plant and mammal communities, analysing 535 permafrost and lake sediment samples from across the Arctic spanning the past 50,000 years. ...
    • Temperature observations from northernmost Greenland, 2006-2010 

      Schomacker, Anders; Larsen, Nicolaj K.; Bjørk, Anders A.; Kjær, Kurt H. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-03-31)
      Air-, surface-, and subsurface temperatures were recorded by automatic weather stations in Bliss Bugt and Moore Gletscher, Johannes V. Jensen Land, North coast of Greenland from 2006-2010. The mean annual surface temperature is -12.1 ℃ in Bliss Bugt and -13.8 ℃ at Moore Gletscher. In 20 cm depth below the surface at Moore Gletscher, the mean annual temperature is -13.2 ℃ (2007-2008). High-amplitude ...
    • Younger Dryas ice margin retreat in Greenland: new evidence from southwestern Greenland 

      Funder, Svend; Sørensen, Anita H. L.; Larsen, Nicolaj K.; Bjørk, Anders A.; Briner, Jason P.; Olsen, Jesper; Schomacker, Anders; Levy, Laura B.; Kjær, Kurt H. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-04)
      To date the final stage in deglaciation of the Greenland shelf, when a contiguous ice sheet margin on the inner shelf transitioned to outlet glaciers in troughs with intervening ice-free areas, we generated cosmogenic <sup>10</sup>Be dates from bedrock knobs on six outlying islands along a stretch of 300 km of the southwestern Greenland coast. Despite <sup>10</sup>Be inheritance influencing some ...