The North Pole Region as an Indicator of the Changing Arctic Ocean: The Need for Sustaining Observations
International audience Sustained observations of environmental conditions in the North Pole region are critical to understanding the changing Arctic Ocean. The Transpolar Drift conduit of sea ice and freshened upper-ocean waters across the Arctic Ocean passes over the North Pole region on its way to...
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North Pole Arctic Ocean climate [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes Morison, James M. Wilkinson, Jeremy Alkire, Matthew Nilsen, Frank Polyakov, Igor Smethie, Jr., William Schlosser, Peter Vivier, Frédéric Lourenço, Antonio Provost, Christine Pelon, Jacques Peralta Ferriz, Cecilia Karcher, Michael Rabe, Benjamin Lee, Craig The North Pole Region as an Indicator of the Changing Arctic Ocean: The Need for Sustaining Observations |
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International audience Sustained observations of environmental conditions in the North Pole region are critical to understanding the changing Arctic Ocean. The Transpolar Drift conduit of sea ice and freshened upper-ocean waters across the Arctic Ocean passes over the North Pole region on its way to the North Atlantic through Fram and Nares Straits. The exported ice and freshened water strati es the sub-Arctic seas and limits the vertical convection that ventilates the world ocean. Key variables such as ice thickness, bottom pressure, and hydrography in the North Pole region are thus sensitive indicators of changes over the whole Arctic Basin and how these affect the global ocean. Drifting buoys installed in the North Pole region by Great Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the U.S. address what would otherwise be a dearth of ocean, ice, and atmosphere observations in the central Arctic. A suite of satellite remote sensing tools such as ICESat/ICESat-2 from the U.S., GRACE from the U.S. and Germany, and CryoSat2 from the European Union extend the conclusions from central Arctic Ocean in situ observations to other regions. Detecting and understanding climate change requires observations over decadal and longer scales. We propose an international program as the key to sustaining these observations in the North Pole region. Such an international program would help immeasurably by 1) facilitating nancial sharing of the burden of long-term measurements among several nations, (2) reducing logistics costs through economies of scale, and 3) providing a buffer against national funding, logistics, and geopolitical dif culties. |
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Morison, James M. Wilkinson, Jeremy Alkire, Matthew Nilsen, Frank Polyakov, Igor Smethie, Jr., William Schlosser, Peter Vivier, Frédéric Lourenço, Antonio Provost, Christine Pelon, Jacques Peralta Ferriz, Cecilia Karcher, Michael Rabe, Benjamin Lee, Craig |
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Morison, James M. Wilkinson, Jeremy Alkire, Matthew Nilsen, Frank Polyakov, Igor Smethie, Jr., William Schlosser, Peter Vivier, Frédéric Lourenço, Antonio Provost, Christine Pelon, Jacques Peralta Ferriz, Cecilia Karcher, Michael Rabe, Benjamin Lee, Craig |
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The North Pole Region as an Indicator of the Changing Arctic Ocean: The Need for Sustaining Observations |
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The North Pole Region as an Indicator of the Changing Arctic Ocean: The Need for Sustaining Observations |
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The North Pole Region as an Indicator of the Changing Arctic Ocean: The Need for Sustaining Observations |
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The North Pole Region as an Indicator of the Changing Arctic Ocean: The Need for Sustaining Observations |
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The North Pole Region as an Indicator of the Changing Arctic Ocean: The Need for Sustaining Observations |
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ftinsu:oai:HAL:hal-02363656v1 2024-04-28T08:03:56+00:00 The North Pole Region as an Indicator of the Changing Arctic Ocean: The Need for Sustaining Observations Morison, James M. Wilkinson, Jeremy Alkire, Matthew Nilsen, Frank Polyakov, Igor Smethie, Jr., William Schlosser, Peter Vivier, Frédéric Lourenço, Antonio Provost, Christine Pelon, Jacques Peralta Ferriz, Cecilia Karcher, Michael Rabe, Benjamin Lee, Craig Applied Physics Laboratory Seattle (APL-UW) University of Washington Seattle Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) International Arctic Research Center (IARC) University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) Columbia University New York Processus et interactions de fine échelle océanique (PROTEO) Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité) Développement Instrumental et Techniques Marines (DITM) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) TROPO - LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Ocean Atmosphere Systems GmbH Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung = Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research = Institut Alfred-Wegener pour la recherche polaire et marine (AWI) Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association 2018-04-10 https://hal.science/hal-02363656 https://hal.science/hal-02363656/document https://hal.science/hal-02363656/file/ec993ebb7fe0ccc811e2a7180afbcf332019.pdf https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic4601 en eng HAL CCSD Arctic Institute of North America info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.14430/arctic4601 hal-02363656 https://hal.science/hal-02363656 https://hal.science/hal-02363656/document https://hal.science/hal-02363656/file/ec993ebb7fe0ccc811e2a7180afbcf332019.pdf doi:10.14430/arctic4601 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 0004-0843 Arctic https://hal.science/hal-02363656 Arctic, 2018, 71 (Suppl. 1), pp.1-5. ⟨10.14430/arctic4601⟩ North Pole Arctic Ocean climate [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2018 ftinsu https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic4601 2024-04-05T00:43:36Z International audience Sustained observations of environmental conditions in the North Pole region are critical to understanding the changing Arctic Ocean. The Transpolar Drift conduit of sea ice and freshened upper-ocean waters across the Arctic Ocean passes over the North Pole region on its way to the North Atlantic through Fram and Nares Straits. The exported ice and freshened water strati es the sub-Arctic seas and limits the vertical convection that ventilates the world ocean. Key variables such as ice thickness, bottom pressure, and hydrography in the North Pole region are thus sensitive indicators of changes over the whole Arctic Basin and how these affect the global ocean. Drifting buoys installed in the North Pole region by Great Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the U.S. address what would otherwise be a dearth of ocean, ice, and atmosphere observations in the central Arctic. A suite of satellite remote sensing tools such as ICESat/ICESat-2 from the U.S., GRACE from the U.S. and Germany, and CryoSat2 from the European Union extend the conclusions from central Arctic Ocean in situ observations to other regions. Detecting and understanding climate change requires observations over decadal and longer scales. We propose an international program as the key to sustaining these observations in the North Pole region. Such an international program would help immeasurably by 1) facilitating nancial sharing of the burden of long-term measurements among several nations, (2) reducing logistics costs through economies of scale, and 3) providing a buffer against national funding, logistics, and geopolitical dif culties. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Basin Arctic Arctic Ocean Central Arctic Climate change North Atlantic North Pole Sea ice Institut national des sciences de l'Univers: HAL-INSU ARCTIC 71 5 |