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

• Main Authors: Krumpen, T, Birrien, F, Kauker, F, Rackow, T, von Albedyll, L, Angelopoulos, M, Belter, HJ, Bessonov, V, Damm, E, Dethloff, K, Haapala, J, Haas, C, Harris, C, Hendricks, S, Hoelemann, J, Hoppmann, M, Kaleschke, L, Karcher, M, Kolabutin, N, Lei, R, Lenz, J, Morgenstern, A, Nicolaus, M, Nixdorf, U, Petrovsky, T, Rabe, B, Rabenstein, L, Rex, M, Ricker, R, Rohde, J, Shimanchuk, E, Singha, S, Smolyanitsky, V, Sokolov, V, Stanton, T, Timofeeva, A, Tsamados, M, Watkins, D
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH 2020
• Subjects: Science & Technology; Physical Sciences; Geography; Physical; Geosciences; Multidisciplinary; Physical Geography; Geology; THICKNESS DISTRIBUTION; SEA; VARIABILITY; EXPORT; MODEL; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; New Siberian Islands; Sea ice; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10107321/1/tc-14-2173-2020.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10107321/

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,...