Ice cover and weather conditions in Greenland have a significant impact on the climate in Europe. Jakob Abermann from the Institute of Geography and Regional Science at the University of Graz is therefore deeply engaged with the environmental conditions on the world's largest island. Together with colleagues from the Know Center Graz and GEUS Denmark, he has now gained new insights from historical data that could improve our understanding of climate change. The findings have been published in the journal "Scientific Reports".

"We came across several hundred pages of previously untapped measurement results that Alfred Wegener had collected nearly a hundred years ago on his Greenland expedition," reports Abermann. The meteorologist and geophysicist Wegener was at the time a professor at the University of Graz. The researchers analysed his documentation on the composition of snow and ice and weather conditions, and linked these with current measurements and reconstructions from climate models.

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