For how much longer will it be possible to carry out national 'glacier inventories'? 🔥🧊
The latest Austrian glacier inventory (AGI 5, mostly representing 2023) shows that glaciers cover 285 km² and that 129 km² were lost since AGI 3 (~2010)! 📈😲
A third lost in less than two decades! 😱
Guten Morgen mit einem aktuellen Satellitenbild 🌍 Zum astronomischen Frühlingsbeginn verläuft die Tag-Nacht-Grenze senkrecht, weltweit dauert der Tag rund 12 Stunden.
@moritzderhase.bsky.social !!
I'm honored to share that I didn't post some nonsense to LinkedIn humble-bragging about something that isn't particularly noteworthy.
Crazy
21:36 UTC
Jan 19, 2026
Location Koralpe Austria 46N
#Aurora #spaceweather
@vincentledvina.bsky.social
We are situated in Graz #Austria and this is the view from the Schöckl mountain on Jan 19 2026 23:00 CEST.
#spaceweather #aurora #polarlights
INCREDIBLY massive avalanche struck the Elbrus resort (Kabardino-Balkaria, Caucasus, RU) today on the SE face of Ebrus, down to ~2300 m asl! ❄️🌊
Via @WeatherMonitors
Eher bescheidene Schneeprognose über Europa bis Sonntag nächste Woche.
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Eiríksjökull Glacier in Iceland.
Image taken by Sentinel-2 in 2024.
@moritzderhase.bsky.social
2015-2024
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Autumn Time - Mushroom Time 😀
An incredibly chonky brown bear
GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS
Short #orf feature on geography @uni-graz.at research at Pasterze glacier salzburg.orf.at/stories/3321... happening each year in September
Juni-Rekordhitze in Kärnten: 38,1° in Feistritz ob Bleiburg - eine so hohe Temperatur wurde in Kärnten im Juni noch nie gemessen.
Auch in Klagenfurt 37,9°. 🔥
Preparations underway at Sermilik Station!🔧❄️
A UNI Graz team is heading north soon to finalize Austria’s first polar research station before scientists arrive in August. Big thanks to all involved!🏔️
📸 © Steinegger & Ruhsam
#SermilikStation #PolarResearch #APRI #Fieldwork #Arctic
#FieldworkFriday from Freya Glacier, Greenland❄️🌎
A Team from Geosphere Austria conducted glaciological fieldwork at Freya Glacier in Northeast Greenland.
They also fixed the Webcams at the Glacier that you can find on our Website 👉 www.polarresearch.at/multimedia
📷 B. Hynek, A. Neureiter
Stunning overview of the former bed of the now gone Birch Glacier shot yesterday from the right lateral moraine 😲😱
INCREDIBLE to think that there WAS a glacier here just a few days ago!
The area above the glacier still holds ~300,000m3 of debris
Source D. Farinotti - @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social
Inspired by previous posts of @subfossilguy.bsky.social sky.social and nice visualizations of @stim3on.bsky.social, I created a before and after 3D visualization of the tragic events at Blatten & Birchgletscher. Made possible by #swisstopo Rapid Mapping imagery and their open data policy
Nice annotated 3D model of the Birch Glacier collapse! 🏔️🧊🌊
sketchfab.com/3d-models/bl...
Source: Simeon Schmauß - created from @swisstopo Rapid Mapping oblique imagery
Yesterday's devastating #glacier collapse erasing the Swiss village of Blatten still leaves me speechless...
The high mountain areas are adapting to ever increasing temperatures. It's time to wake up! When, if not now?
This is not far away but right here...
pic: Pomona/A. Amherd
Es regnet, der Boden sieht wieder feucht aus... Dürre vorbei?
Zur Einordnung, hier ein paar Bodenfeuchte- sowie eine Niederschlagsmessung vom @bayceer.bsky.social an der @unibayreuth.bsky.social.
Kleiner 🧵
The river level has already started to rise behind the dam in Blatten! 🌊
A lake is underway... 😨
To 'mitigate' flooding hazard in the valley, the Ferden dam lake, located 6 km downstream has been emptied.
📷 SRF
Are you working on glacier monitoring using UAVs? Do you face challenges in computing glacier surface velocities due to strong glacial surface changes & decorrelation? Our new paper shows that deep learning methods may be a solution where other methods fail: www.frontiersin.org/journals/rem...
Spring is here at 2470 m.a.s.l.😳 Location: Border Rätikon-Silvretta, Vorarlberg
Today is the first World Day for Glaciers. However, in Austria, glaciers are rapidly vanishing. Here is a 3D comparison of Pasterze 1969-2018. In 2018, the glacier tongue was still well connected to the accumulation area of higher areas. This will soon change:
www.derstandard.de/story/300000...
