Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Snow and sea ice
Year-round observations of the physical snow and ice properties and processes that govern the ice pack evolution and its interaction with the atmosphere and the ocean were conducted during the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition of the research...
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Year-round observations of the physical snow and ice properties and processes that govern the ice pack evolution and its interaction with the atmosphere and the ocean were conducted during the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition of the research vessel Polarstern in the Arctic Ocean from October 2019 to September 2020. This work was embedded into the interdisciplinary design of the 5 MOSAiC teams, studying the atmosphere, the sea ice, the ocean, the ecosystem, and biogeochemical processes. The overall aim of the snow and sea ice observations during MOSAiC was to characterize the physical properties of the snow and ice cover comprehensively in the central Arctic over an entire annual cycle. This objective was achieved by detailed observations of physical properties and of energy and mass balance of snow and ice. By studying snow and sea ice dynamics over nested spatial scales from centimeters to tens of kilometers, the variability across scales can be considered. On-ice observations of in situ and remote sensing properties of the different surface types over all seasons will help to improve numerical process and climate models and to establish and validate novel satellite remote sensing methods; the linkages to accompanying airborne measurements, satellite observations, and results of numerical models are discussed. We found large spatial variabilities of snow metamorphism and thermal regimes impacting sea ice growth. We conclude that the highly variable snow cover needs to be considered in more detail (in observations, remote sensing, and models) to better understand snow-related feedback processes. The ice pack revealed rapid transformations and motions along the drift in all seasons. The number of coupled ice–ocean interface processes observed in detail are expected to guide upcoming research with respect to the changing Arctic sea ice. |
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Nicolaus, Marcel Perovich, Donald K. Spreen, Gunnar Granskog, Mats A. von Albedyll, Luisa Angelopoulos, Michael Anhaus, Philipp Arndt, Stefanie Belter, H. Jakob Bessonov, Vladimir Birnbaum, Gerit Brauchle, Jörg Calmer, Radiance Cardellach, Estel Cheng, Bin Clemens-Sewall, David Dadic, Ruzica Damm, Ellen de Boer, Gijs Demir, Oguz Dethloff, Klaus Divine, Dmitry V. Fong, Allison A. Fons, Steven Frey, Markus M. Fuchs, Niels Gabarró, Carolina Gerland, Sebastian Goessling, Helge F. Gradinger, Rolf Haapala, Jari Haas, Christian Hamilton, Jonathan Hannula, Henna-Reetta Hendricks, Stefan Herber, Andreas Heuzé, Céline Hoppmann, Mario Høyland, Knut Vilhelm Huntemann, Marcus Hutchings, Jennifer K. Hwang, Byongjun Itkin, Polona Jacobi, Hans-Werner Jaggi, Matthias Jutila, Arttu Kaleschke, Lars Katlein, Christian Kolabutin, Nikolai Krampe, Daniela |
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Nicolaus, Marcel Perovich, Donald K. Spreen, Gunnar Granskog, Mats A. von Albedyll, Luisa Angelopoulos, Michael Anhaus, Philipp Arndt, Stefanie Belter, H. Jakob Bessonov, Vladimir Birnbaum, Gerit Brauchle, Jörg Calmer, Radiance Cardellach, Estel Cheng, Bin Clemens-Sewall, David Dadic, Ruzica Damm, Ellen de Boer, Gijs Demir, Oguz Dethloff, Klaus Divine, Dmitry V. Fong, Allison A. Fons, Steven Frey, Markus M. Fuchs, Niels Gabarró, Carolina Gerland, Sebastian Goessling, Helge F. Gradinger, Rolf Haapala, Jari Haas, Christian Hamilton, Jonathan Hannula, Henna-Reetta Hendricks, Stefan Herber, Andreas Heuzé, Céline Hoppmann, Mario Høyland, Knut Vilhelm Huntemann, Marcus Hutchings, Jennifer K. Hwang, Byongjun Itkin, Polona Jacobi, Hans-Werner Jaggi, Matthias Jutila, Arttu Kaleschke, Lars Katlein, Christian Kolabutin, Nikolai Krampe, Daniela Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Snow and sea ice |
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Nicolaus, Marcel Perovich, Donald K. Spreen, Gunnar Granskog, Mats A. von Albedyll, Luisa Angelopoulos, Michael Anhaus, Philipp Arndt, Stefanie Belter, H. Jakob Bessonov, Vladimir Birnbaum, Gerit Brauchle, Jörg Calmer, Radiance Cardellach, Estel Cheng, Bin Clemens-Sewall, David Dadic, Ruzica Damm, Ellen de Boer, Gijs Demir, Oguz Dethloff, Klaus Divine, Dmitry V. Fong, Allison A. Fons, Steven Frey, Markus M. Fuchs, Niels Gabarró, Carolina Gerland, Sebastian Goessling, Helge F. Gradinger, Rolf Haapala, Jari Haas, Christian Hamilton, Jonathan Hannula, Henna-Reetta Hendricks, Stefan Herber, Andreas Heuzé, Céline Hoppmann, Mario Høyland, Knut Vilhelm Huntemann, Marcus Hutchings, Jennifer K. Hwang, Byongjun Itkin, Polona Jacobi, Hans-Werner Jaggi, Matthias Jutila, Arttu Kaleschke, Lars Katlein, Christian Kolabutin, Nikolai Krampe, Daniela |
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Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Snow and sea ice |
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Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Snow and sea ice |
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Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Snow and sea ice |
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ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:531906 2023-05-15T14:51:54+02:00 Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Snow and sea ice Nicolaus, Marcel Perovich, Donald K. Spreen, Gunnar Granskog, Mats A. von Albedyll, Luisa Angelopoulos, Michael Anhaus, Philipp Arndt, Stefanie Belter, H. Jakob Bessonov, Vladimir Birnbaum, Gerit Brauchle, Jörg Calmer, Radiance Cardellach, Estel Cheng, Bin Clemens-Sewall, David Dadic, Ruzica Damm, Ellen de Boer, Gijs Demir, Oguz Dethloff, Klaus Divine, Dmitry V. Fong, Allison A. Fons, Steven Frey, Markus M. Fuchs, Niels Gabarró, Carolina Gerland, Sebastian Goessling, Helge F. Gradinger, Rolf Haapala, Jari Haas, Christian Hamilton, Jonathan Hannula, Henna-Reetta Hendricks, Stefan Herber, Andreas Heuzé, Céline Hoppmann, Mario Høyland, Knut Vilhelm Huntemann, Marcus Hutchings, Jennifer K. Hwang, Byongjun Itkin, Polona Jacobi, Hans-Werner Jaggi, Matthias Jutila, Arttu Kaleschke, Lars Katlein, Christian Kolabutin, Nikolai Krampe, Daniela 2022-02-07 text http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/531906/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/531906/1/elementa.2021.000046.pdf https://online.ucpress.edu/elementa/article/10/1/000046/119791/Overview-of-the-MOSAiC-expeditionSnow-and-sea-ice en eng University of California Press https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/531906/1/elementa.2021.000046.pdf Nicolaus, Marcel; Perovich, Donald K.; Spreen, Gunnar; Granskog, Mats A.; von Albedyll, Luisa; Angelopoulos, Michael; Anhaus, Philipp; Arndt, Stefanie; Belter, H. Jakob; Bessonov, Vladimir; Birnbaum, Gerit; Brauchle, Jörg; Calmer, Radiance; Cardellach, Estel; Cheng, Bin; Clemens-Sewall, David; Dadic, Ruzica; Damm, Ellen; de Boer, Gijs; Demir, Oguz; Dethloff, Klaus; Divine, Dmitry V.; Fong, Allison A.; Fons, Steven; Frey, Markus M. orcid:0000-0003-0535-0416 Fuchs, Niels; Gabarró, Carolina; Gerland, Sebastian; Goessling, Helge F.; Gradinger, Rolf; Haapala, Jari; Haas, Christian; Hamilton, Jonathan; Hannula, Henna-Reetta; Hendricks, Stefan; Herber, Andreas; Heuzé, Céline; Hoppmann, Mario; Høyland, Knut Vilhelm; Huntemann, Marcus; Hutchings, Jennifer K.; Hwang, Byongjun; Itkin, Polona; Jacobi, Hans-Werner; Jaggi, Matthias; Jutila, Arttu; Kaleschke, Lars; Katlein, Christian; Kolabutin, Nikolai; Krampe, Daniela; Kristensen, Steen Savstrup; Krumpen, Thomas; Kurtz, Nathan; Lampert, Astrid; Lange, Benjamin Allen; Lei, Ruibo; Light, Bonnie; Linhardt, Felix; Liston, Glen E.; Loose, Brice; Macfarlane, Amy R.; Mahmud, Mallik; Matero, Ilkka O.; Maus, Sönke; Morgenstern, Anne; Naderpour, Reza; Nandan, Vishnu; Niubom, Alexey; Oggier, Marc; Oppelt, Natascha; Pätzold, Falk; Perron, Christophe; Petrovsky, Tomasz; Pirazzini, Roberta; Polashenski, Chris; Rabe, Benjamin; Raphael, Ian A.; Regnery, Julia; Rex, Markus; Ricker, Robert; Riemann-Campe, Kathrin; Rinke, Annette; Rohde, Jan; Salganik, Evgenii; Scharien, Randall K.; Schiller, Martin; Schneebeli, Martin; Semmling, Maximilian; Shimanchuk, Egor; Shupe, Matthew D.; Smith, Madison M.; Smolyanitsky, Vasily; Sokolov, Vladimir; Stanton, Tim; Stroeve, Julienne; Thielke, Linda; Timofeeva, Anna; Tonboe, Rasmus Tage; Tavri, Aikaterini; Tsamados, Michel; Wagner, David N.; Watkins, Daniel; Webster, Melinda; Wendisch, Manfred. 2022 Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Snow and sea ice. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 10 (1). 42, pp. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.000046 <https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.000046> cc_by_4 CC-BY Publication - Article PeerReviewed 2022 ftnerc https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.000046 2023-02-04T19:52:59Z Year-round observations of the physical snow and ice properties and processes that govern the ice pack evolution and its interaction with the atmosphere and the ocean were conducted during the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition of the research vessel Polarstern in the Arctic Ocean from October 2019 to September 2020. This work was embedded into the interdisciplinary design of the 5 MOSAiC teams, studying the atmosphere, the sea ice, the ocean, the ecosystem, and biogeochemical processes. The overall aim of the snow and sea ice observations during MOSAiC was to characterize the physical properties of the snow and ice cover comprehensively in the central Arctic over an entire annual cycle. This objective was achieved by detailed observations of physical properties and of energy and mass balance of snow and ice. By studying snow and sea ice dynamics over nested spatial scales from centimeters to tens of kilometers, the variability across scales can be considered. On-ice observations of in situ and remote sensing properties of the different surface types over all seasons will help to improve numerical process and climate models and to establish and validate novel satellite remote sensing methods; the linkages to accompanying airborne measurements, satellite observations, and results of numerical models are discussed. We found large spatial variabilities of snow metamorphism and thermal regimes impacting sea ice growth. We conclude that the highly variable snow cover needs to be considered in more detail (in observations, remote sensing, and models) to better understand snow-related feedback processes. The ice pack revealed rapid transformations and motions along the drift in all seasons. The number of coupled ice–ocean interface processes observed in detail are expected to guide upcoming research with respect to the changing Arctic sea ice. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean ice pack Sea ice Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive Arctic Arctic Ocean Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 10 1 |