The Greenland Ice Sheet in a Changing Climate
By:"Dorthe Dahl-Jensen","AMAP"
Published on 2009 by
This report presents a summary of the initial scientifi c fi ndings of work conducted on the Greenland Ice Sheet (GRIS) component of the Arctic Council's Cryosphere project - Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA). It is a summary of the comprehensive and fully-referenced scientifi c and technical report entitled e Greenland Ice Sheet in a Changing Climate: Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA). The SWIPA project was established by the Arctic Council in April 2008 as a follow-up to the 2005 Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA). Its goal is to assess current scientifi c information on changes in the Arctic cryosphere, including the impacts due to changes in the cryosphere that have potentially far reaching implications for both the Arctic and the Earth as a whole. The SWIPA project is coordinated by the Arctic Council's Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) in cooperation with the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA), International Polar Year, and WCRP-CliC Program (for further information see www.amap.no/swipa). The Greenland Ice Sheet component of the SWIPA project is led by Denmark. Th is summary report is also available in Chinese, Danish, French, Greenlandic and Russian translations; however, the English language version constitutes the official version of the report. The SWIPA-GRIS reports, together with other SWIPA products, will be presented at the UNFCCC COP15 meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009. The results of the SWIPA project will also be provided to the UNFCCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for use in future IPCC assessments. AMAP would like to thank all of the scientific experts that have contributed to this assessment. A list of the authors and contributors of the scientific background report is included in the colophon to this report. Thanks are also due to Carolyn Symon for preparing this summary.
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