Drifting With the Ice: Life on an Arctic Expedition
For five months in 2015, a team of researchers drifted with polar ice, their ship tethered to an ice floe as they collected data to help them better understand how the loss of sea ice will affect the planet. The air above the Arctic Ocean has warmed on average about 5F in the past centurymore than t...
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2016
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| Online Access: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tggPOOrGiwQ http://ecite.utas.edu.au/125643 |
| Summary: | For five months in 2015, a team of researchers drifted with polar ice, their ship tethered to an ice floe as they collected data to help them better understand how the loss of sea ice will affect the planet. The air above the Arctic Ocean has warmed on average about 5F in the past centurymore than twice the global averageand sea ice covers less and less of it. Most researchers study the ice during the summer. This team, battling bone-chilling cold, tracked it from when it formed in winter until it started melting in spring. And occasionally found time to kick a soccer ball around the floe. |
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