Scientists of Poland, the Czech Republic and Norway will explain the reaction of the Svalbard archipelago’s river delta systems to global warming. They received a grant of 740,000 PLN for the SVELTA project under the competition of the POLS National Science Center.

Climate change is a topic of particular importance to all mankind and its future. The Arctic region is extremely sensitive to climate fluctuations, and the change of the air temperature is several times higher than the average for the rest of the world. Climate change is reflected in melting glaciers, the degradation of permafrost and the disappearance of sea ice. These factors seem to have the greatest impact on the Arctic river deltas, but the scale and course of this interaction have not been thoroughly investigated.

Scientists will research how the river delta system of the Svalbard archipelago has responded to the last decades of climate warming and what may happen to delta when the temperature increases faster.

More: https://uni.wroc.pl/grant-na-badania-ocieplenia-klimatu/