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MOSAiC Science Charges Forward
Editor’s note: Matthew Shupe, co-coordinator of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition, provided the following blog post and photos. From September 2019 to October 2020, ARM instruments on the research vessel Polarstern collected continuous atmospheric data during the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. …
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MOSAiC Scientists Reunite In Person to Discuss Central Arctic Science
Editor’s note: Jessie Creamean, a research scientist at Colorado State University, is an ARM mentor for the collection and analysis of ice-nucleating particles. With instrument funding from ARM and science funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric System Research (ASR), Creamean participated in the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC)…
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AGU Scoop: Data and Impressions From MOSAiC
Frost-rimed in the frigid central Arctic during polar night, the R/V Polarstern was the main laboratory and lifeline for scientists. Photo is by Lukas Piotrowski, Alfred Wegener Institute. Imagine, if you can: One year moored to an ice floe in the central Arctic. Scientists from 20 nations. Twenty arctic typhoons. Polar bears. Miles-long cracks in…
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AGU Scoop: A Blizzard of Posters on MOSAiC Research
Editor’s note: December 14 at the 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting featured the following posters related to the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. For meeting-specific links, use your AGU login to view. The Arctic’s Ice-Nucleating Particles Jessie Creamean snaps a selfie in early October 2019 in front of…
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AGU Scoop: Arctic Clouds in the Spotlight
In the fall of 2019, Matthew Shupe poses on the ice in the central Arctic during the MOSAiC expedition. Behind him, moored to an ice floe, is the German research icebreaker R/V Polarstern. Its bow is stacked with ARM instruments for measuring cloud and atmospheric properties. Photo is courtesy of Shupe, Cooperative Institute for Research…
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AGU Scoop: MOSAiC Data Tell Tales of the Arctic
December 11 at the 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting featured two sessions—16 talks total—on coupled atmosphere-sea ice-ocean processes in the central Arctic. (See the lists of presentations from Session 1 and Session 2; a third oral session is scheduled for 7–8 a.m. Pacific time Monday, December 14. NOTE: For meeting-specific links, use your AGU…
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MOSAiC Blog: Starting Toward Home
September 20, 2020, marked a big day in the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. One year after leaving Tromsø, Norway, to start the MOSAiC expedition, the icebreaker R/V Polarstern ended its drift with the arctic ice floe and started toward its home port of Bremerhaven, Germany. The Polarstern is expected…
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ARM Technician Goes on Work Trip of a Lifetime
Editor’s note: ARM technician Tercio Silva of Hamelmann Communications worked on the Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE) and the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. Here he shares his experience working on both campaigns. Photos are by Silva except where indicated. I am ready for the…
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MOSAiC Blog: Sights of the Arctic, Part 5
Editor’s note: ARM technician Tercio Silva of Hamelmann Communications worked on Leg 2 of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. He provided some photos for a blog published earlier on the ARM website. Here are more photos Silva sent back from his time on the expedition. Photos are by…
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MOSAiC Blog: Sights of the Arctic, Part 4
Editor’s note: ARM technician Tercio Silva of Hamelmann Communications worked on Leg 2 of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. Here are some photos Silva sent back from his time on the expedition. Photos are by Silva except where indicated. In the wind, I am fixing ARM network cable going…