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Climate change is transforming the Arctic landscape. The global rise in temperature has a greater impact on certain regions and the impacts are varied: damage to permafrost, changes in snow cover affecting albedo, fauna and the quantity of water accumulated in watersheds. The study of snow cover is also extremely important from a public safety perspective where its characterization helps to identify areas at risk of avalanche. The snow cover expertise of Cartel researchers is internationally recognized and the Cartel is a world leader in cryosphere research.
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CARTEL researchers working on the topic
- Kalifa Goïta (Snow cover hydrology, change analysis)
- Alexandre Langlois (Monitoring of extreme weather events in the Arctic)
- Ramata Magagi (Snow cover characterization, water equivalent, modelling)
- Alain Royer (Snow cover monitoring and evolution, climate change)