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Scientist from Ohio State University awaiting pick-up after installing a GNET GPS station on Timmiariit Island, SE Greenland.

Meltwater from the ice sheet surface is drained through a moulin. The edge zone in the Ilulissat region, West Greenland

Snow, Water, Ice, Permafrost In The Arctic (SWIPA) - 2017

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Snow, Water, Ice And Permafrost. Summary For Policy-Makers

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Scientists and drillers at work in the sub-surface drill trench. NEEM ice coring camp at the Greenland Ice Sheet, 77°N / 51°W, 2454 m altitude

Blue glacier ice, Northwest Greenland. Lars Witting/ARC-PIC.COM

Clearing snow drifts in downtown areas is an almost constant job. NEEM ice coring camp at the Greenland Ice Sheet, 2454 m altitude. NEEM ice core drilling project, www.neem.ku.dk

An iceberg collapses, Disko Bay, West Greenland. Carsten Egevang/ARC-PIC.COM

Heavily crevassed area of Jakobshavn Isbræ near the glacier front. Ilulissat, West Greenland Konrad Steffen/CIRES, University of Colorado

Scientist from Ohio State University awaiting pick-up after installing a GNET GPS station on Timmiariit Island, SE Greenland, as part of the research efforts to estimate ice mass changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet, Dana Caccamise

The international flag line in the main street of the NEEM ice coring camp at the Greenland Ice Sheet, 2454 m altitude, NEEM ice core drilling project, www.neem.ku.dk

Unloading the shrimp harvest in the harbour of Ilulissat, West Greenland Carsten Egevang/ARC-PIC.COM

Surface meltwater disappears down a moulin. Near the ice margin in the Ilulissat region, West Greenland. Konrad Steffen/CIRES, University of Colorado

Vessels and iceberg in close neighbourhood in the lulissat harbour, Anders Skov Hansen/ARC-PIC.COM