The MOSAiC ice floe: sediment-laden survivor from the Siberian shelf

• Main Authors: Krumpen, Thomas, Birrien, Florent, Kauker, Frank, Rackow, Thomas, Albedyll, Luisa, Angelopoulos, Michael, Belter, H. Jakob, Bessonov, Vadlimir, Damm, Ellen, Dethloff, Klaus, Haapala, Jari, Haas, Christian, Hendricks, Stefan, Hoelemann, Jens, Hoppmann, Mario, Kaleschke, Lars, Karcher, Michael, Kolabutin, nikolai, Lenz, Josefine, Morgenstern, Anne, Nicolaus, Marcel, Nixdorf, Uwe, Petrovsky, Tomash, Rabe, Benjamin, Rabenstein, Lasse, Rex, Markus, Ricker, Robert, Rohde, Jan, Shimanchuk, Egor, Singha, Suman, Smolyanitsky, Vasily, Sokolov, Vladimir, Stanton, Tim, Timofeeva, Anna, Tsamados, Michel
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; New Siberian Islands; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-64; https://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/tc-2020-64/

In September 2019, the research icebreaker Polarstern started the largest multidisciplinary Arctic expedition so far, the MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) drift experiment. Being moored to an ice floe for a whole year, thus including the winter season,...