Erik Loebel

🌍🛰️ We are looking for new climate data products! Among these – Permafrost, which will complete our range of cryosphere ECVs monitored within #C3S.

Last Friday, my amazing colleagues at @tudresden.bsky.social gave me this very fancy hat! 🎓 #PhDone

I’m incredibly grateful to them and to everyone else who has supported me over the past few years. Very excited for the next adventures to come.

Mélange or landfast ice: What controls seasonal calving at Greenland outlet glaciers? Abstract. Landfast sea ice and glacier mélange are part of a continuum of ice forms in front of marine-terminating outlet glaciers in Greenland. Mélange (sikussaq) has been posited to offer a buttress...

What controls seasonal calving in Greenland? New preprint just landed in the EGUsphere - reporting our glacier melange results from fieldwork on the fast ice and (unusually for glaciology) in the melange zone itself in NW #Greenland near Qaanaaq: 🥼❄️🌊⛏️⚒️🧪

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Just wrapped up an exciting trip to the #CopernicusClimate GA! This was a fantastic occasion to meet the C3S team and connect with the wider climate data community.

Additionally, I had the change to present on ice sheet monitoring and how our ECV program is facilitating and advancing these efforts.

The system of atmosphere, land, ice and ocean in the region near the 79N Glacier in northeast Greenland: synthesis and key findings from the Greenland Ice Sheet–Ocean Interaction (GROCE) experiment Abstract. The Greenland Ice Sheet has steadily lost mass over the past decades, presently representing the second-largest single contributor to global sea-level rise. In line with the rest of the Gree...

The GROCE project accompanied me for many years during my PhD. I am thrilled that our overview paper has finally been published. This paper presents a consistent picture of the atmosphere-ice sheet-ocean system in northeast Greenland as it enters a phase of major change.

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The #ESOTC2024 report is out! Explore the contrasts across Europe, from the dry and often record-warm conditions in the east to warm but wet conditions in the west. #ESOTC2024 is a joint effort between #CopernicusClimate and @wmo-global.bsky.social, together with over 100 scientists. bit.ly/3G9MdEX

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This week I am excited to start a new chapter @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social where I will be working as a Scientific Officer in the Climate Intelligence team. In this new role, I'll be developing, evaluating and promoting the use of satellite-based ECV datasets and related services.

The year 2025 is off to a very exciting start for me.

Last week, I finally submitted my PhD thesis. It has been a wonderful 5 years @tudresden.bsky.social and @awi.de and I am very grateful to many colleagues and friends who have supported me along the way.

Big thanks to my co-authors Celia Baumhoer, Andreas Dietz, Mirko Scheinert and Martin Horwath, and also to @tudresden.bsky.social , Alfred Wegener Institute and @dlr-spaceagency.bsky.social

This dataset covers the period from 2013 to 2023 and includes thousands of calving front entries, achieving a sub-seasonal temporal resolution. Here is an example for the Larsen-B embayment.

Building on our large base of Greenland training data, we applied our proven deep learning processing system to 42 key glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet.

Calving front positions for 42 key glaciers of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet: a sub-seasonal record from 2013 to 2023 based on deep-learning application to Landsat multi-spectral imagery Abstract. Calving front positions of marine-terminating glaciers are an essential parameter for understanding dynamic glacier changes and constraining ice modelling. In particular, for the Antarctic P...

Our new Antarctic Peninsula glacier calving front data product has finally been published! This dataset will help to better understand outlet glacier dynamics on an intra-annual scale, study ice–ocean interactions in more detail and constrain glacier models.

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Last week I had the opportunity to present our latest research to the ice altimetry community at the #CRYO2ICE symposium. I talked about AWI-ICENet1, our new AI-based retracking algorithm for ice altimetry (doi.org/10.5194/tc-1...). I took home fantastic feedback and a lot to think about.

Calving front monitoring at a subseasonal resolution: a deep learning application for Greenland glaciers Abstract. The mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet is strongly influenced by the dynamics of its outlet glaciers. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to accurately and continuously monitor the...

This paper has been a long time in the making and I am exited to see it published. It represents an important step towards the development of #AI processing strategies for #glacier monitoring in #Greenland.

doi.org/10.5194/tc-1...

Home sweet home after our exciting field campaign in East Antarctica carrying out geodetic and geophysical measurements. Our results will contribute to a better understanding of the interactions between solid earth, ice sheet and ocean.

See our reports for details: tu-dresden.de/bu/umwelt/ge...

Updates on our expedition work will be posted under this link throughout the cruise:
follow-polarstern.awi.de
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Our project concentrates around a field camp at Gaussberg. During this time we will carry out a wide range of geodetic, geophysical and photogrammetric measurements. This survey will allow us to determine changes in ice height and speed over a period of 120 years. 3/4

Gaussberg was discovered in 1902 by the first German Antarctic Expedition under Erich von Drygalski, who named it after his expedition ship "Gauss". Remarkably, during this expedition an extensive surveying programm of Gaussberg and its surrounding glaciers was carried out. 2/4

Tomorrow it finally starts! On board RV Polarstern, I'm heading for East Antarctica. This expedition will link ice sheet instabilities, ocean circulation and geoscientific fieldwork. As part of this, our research project is focussing around one site in particular – the extinct volcano Gaussberg. 1/4

Updates on our expedition work will be posted under this link throughout the cruise:
follow-polarstern.awi.de

Our project concentrates around a field camp at Gaussberg. During this time we will carry out a wide range of geodetic, geophysical and photogrammetric measurements. This survey will allow us to determine changes in ice height and speed over a period of 120 years.

'Geoscience Connections' leads you through a fascinating journey through the Earth’s history, explained by eight early-career researchers who represent each... Geoscience Connections

’Geoscience Connections’ offers a fascinating journey though the Earth's history. It was a great pleasure to contribute to this project, talk about the cryosphere, and represent the IACS.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Xv...