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Category: MOSAiC

  • ARM Technicians Get Face Time on AWI MOSAiC Blog

    Since the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition began in September 2019, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility has had technicians on the icebreaker R/V Polarstern to oversee its 50-plus instruments. The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), which leads MOSAiC, is producing daily blog updates on the expedition. On May 3,…

  • Updated MOSAiC Blog: Despite Challenges, Expedition Still Pulling In Valuable Data

    Editor’s note: Heath Powers, site manager for the second ARM Mobile Facility, sent in this update about the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. Update (May 1, 2020): ARM staff for the next leg of MOSAiC have reached Bremerhaven, Germany, to begin preparations. Read this news release from the Alfred…

  • MOSAiC Blog: Sights of the Arctic, Part 3

    Editor’s note: ARM has three technicians—Paul Ortega and John Bilberry, both from Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Dean Greenamyer, Hamelmann Communications—on Leg 3 of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. In early March 2020, the group came aboard the icebreaker R/V Polarstern. Ortega sent back photos from ARM staff…

  • MOSAiC PI Blog, Part 4: Scenes From the Ice

    Editor’s note: The Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition, using more than 50 ARM instruments, continues in the central Arctic through October 2020. Matthew Shupe, MOSAiC co-coordinator from the University of Colorado, Boulder, shares more pictures from the expedition. A thin crack cuts through footprints across the ice adjacent to…

  • MOSAiC PI Blog, Part 3: Science in Polar Night

    Editor’s note: In the central Arctic, the sun will soon rise above the horizon, ending the monthslong “polar night” over the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. Matthew Shupe, MOSAiC co-coordinator from the University of Colorado, Boulder, shares some of his MOSAiC photos taken during polar night. ARM technician Juarez…

  • MOSAiC PI Blog, Part 2: Teamwork Makes the MOSAiC Dream Work

    Editor’s note: Matthew Shupe, co-coordinator for the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition, sent back an update after the first leg. In this post, Shupe, a principal investigator funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program, discusses the ARM team’s role in MOSAiC.  From left, Vagner…

  • MOSAiC PI Blog, Part 1: Frozen In and Facing the Arctic Head-On

    Editor’s note: Matthew Shupe, co-coordinator for the 2019–2020 Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition, sent back an update after the first leg. Polarstern under a full moon, with ARM installations visible on the foredeck and observation deck. Photo is courtesy of Matthew Shupe, University of Colorado, Boulder. Season’s greetings. I’m…

  • MOSAiC Blog: Sights of the Arctic, Part 2

    Editor’s note: David Chu, operations manager for the second ARM Mobile Facility, recently returned from the first leg of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. Below are several MOSAiC photos taken by Chu, of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Our first day in the ice, we took an ARM MOSAiC install…

  • MOSAiC Blog: Moving Over to the ‘Dark Site’ of the MOSAiC Floe

    Typically what I look like after a day outside coring for ice. This day was particularly cold … almost minus 45 degrees Celsius (minus 49 degrees Fahrenheit) with the wind chill. It can be so cold that your breath instantly turns to ice on your face. Eyelashes are great collectors of moisture turned into ice…

  • MOSAiC Blog: A Highlight Reel From Leg 1a

    Music: “Polar Explorer” by Mody. Leg 1a of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign is complete! Click on the video to the right to watch a personal video retrospective from Leg 1a participant Misha Krassovski, an information technology engineer from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The video covers September…