This week, learn more about Arctic indigenous peoples and how their ways of life are being impacted by climate change. Also, fly through the Arctic in an immersive 360-degree video! Photo credit: Museum for Culture and Science
This week, explore why the Arctic experiences such extreme changes in day length throughout the year. And: We want your feedback! Let us know how MOSAiC Monday can best serve you.
Christian Herrera
RV Polarstern. Photo: Esther Horvath/AWI
by Byron Blomquist, CIRES & NOAA
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We are now into the second half of leg 1 and are more or less settled into routine observational activities. Our drift continues to the W, a bit S of the desired course. This is mostly due to persistent easterly winds, which we hope will shift to southerly before too long. The relative wind
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Wright speaks to researchers...
Arctic Sun in October, by Shannon Hall
As winter sets in...
Setting up the meteorological tower. Matthew Shupe (CIRES) is in the foreground with headlamp. Photo: Mario Hoppmann/AWI
It's really cool to see everyone on the ice with their headlights in the dark. We're like astronauts on the moon. We all wear the same snow suit, and you can only see people's eyes. I usually wear goggles, too: At -26C, exposed skin doesn't last long.
Douglas Weibel
First group of scientists lands on an ice floe. Gunnar Spreen (l) and Matthew Shupe (r) exam a potential ice floe for MOSAiC. Note bar in background. September 30, 2019, Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Esther Horvath Grote (CC-BY 4).
An entire year frozen into the Arctic Ocean. 600 people from 17 countries. The largest Arctic climate expedition ever… In September 2019 the German research icebreaker Polarstern departed from Tromsø, Norway and parked next to a chunk of sea ice. CIRES scientist Matthew Shupe writes near-daily blogs.
Meteorological Tower. Photo: Esther Horvath/AWI
For the past week or more we have been drifting to the NW, more or less in the direction we need to go, at a speed of 0.1 to 0.3 kts. We are currently at 85° 35.3' N, 126° 9.03' E. Following the current drift course we would pass to the W of the N pole, but random shifts in direction may get us there yet.