Peter Kuipers Munneke
Assistant professor in Glaciology
About me
I am an assistant professor in the field of glaciology and polar meteorology at the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU), part of Utrecht University, The Netherlands. I'm active on Mastodon.
Featured paper: Firn review paper
We study firn because it contains clues about past climate, because it modifies meltwater runoff into the ocean, and because it can help us to measure ice-sheet mass change from space using satellites. After a lot of hard work, an overview paper on firn is out!
Blue ice in Antarctica
Using a spectral unmixing technique, we map daily fractions of blue-ice area over Antarctica for the 22-year period since 2000, using the full available MODIS archive. This FABIAN product is published in Remote Sensing of Environment.
Links
Ice and Climate
> Glaciers Online - Glaciology for the layman
> Antarctic Glaciers - A wealth of information about Antarctic glaciology
> International Glaciological Society - The professional glaciological organization
> Gletscherarchiv - An archive of glaciers in the Alps
> NSIDC/WDC glacier photos - Mainly Alaska and Canada
> Peter G. Knight's glacier pages - Pictures, quizzes etc.
> Skeptical science - Excellent scientific climate blog
> RealClimate - Authoritative blog on climate science
Jazz
> Bimhuis - The jazz temple of Amsterdam
> Lantaren-Venster - Rotterdam venue with good jazz programme
> AllMusic - Exhaustive resource on (jazz) music
Miscellaneous
> Die Bahn - Ultimate resource for European train travel
> Merriam-Webster Online - Outstanding online English dictionary
> Interglot - Excellent hexalingual dictionary
> Ticket to ride - Exhilarating yet simple board game
> Kitchen converter - Useful ingredients from mass to volume
Longyearbyen Airport, Svalbard (PKM 2004)