Meteorological conditions in the central Arctic summer during the Arctic Summer Cloud Ocean Study (ASCOS)

• Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
• Main Authors: Tjernström, M, Leck, C, Birch, CE, Brooks, IM, Shupe, MD, Persson, POG, Wheeler, CR, Sedlar, J, Mauritsen, T, Paatero, J, Szczodrak, M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: European Geosciences Union 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Breaker
• Online Access: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/77215/; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/77215/9/Tjernstrom_2012_acp-12-6863-2012_with_coversheet.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-6863-2012

Understanding the rapidly changing climate in the Arctic is limited by a lack of understanding of underlying strong feedback mechanisms that are specific to the Arctic. Progress in this field can only be obtained by process-level observations; this is the motivation for intensive ice-breaker-based c...