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

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: T. Krumpen, F. Birrien, F. Kauker, T. Rackow, L. von Albedyll, M. Angelopoulos, H. J. Belter, V. Bessonov, E. Damm, K. Dethloff, J. Haapala, C. Haas, C. Harris, S. Hendricks, J. Hoelemann, M. Hoppmann, L. Kaleschke, M. Karcher, N. Kolabutin, R. Lei, J. Lenz, A. Morgenstern, M. Nicolaus, U. Nixdorf, T. Petrovsky, B. Rabe, L. Rabenstein, M. Rex, R. Ricker, J. Rohde, E. Shimanchuk, S. Singha, V. Smolyanitsky, V. Sokolov, T. Stanton, A. Timofeeva, M. Tsamados, D. Watkins
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: geo; envir; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; New Siberian Islands; Sea ice; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2173-2020; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/14/2173/2020/tc-14-2173-2020.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/4e133eac0a5c455db84aff0183980227

In September 2019, the research icebreaker Polarstern started the largest multidisciplinary Arctic expedition to date, 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,...