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., Birch, C., Brooks, I., Shupe, M., Persson, P., Sedlar, J., Mauritsen, T., Leck, C., Paatero, J., Szczodrak, M., Wheeler, C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Breaker
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-E633-E; http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0010-1874-2

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...