It was an unforgettable welcome: when we came in from the Arctic cold (-25°C) and first set foot in the entrance area of Canada’s CFS Alert station, the entire staff, decked out in their best uniforms
“May 2018 was the warmest May in Germany since 1881, and the second consecutive month (together with April 2018) with a new record high.” That was the German Weather Service’s review of the current we
CryoSat-2, a radar altimeter satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA), had its eighth birthday on April 8, 2018. Observations from CryoSat-2 add vital information on sea ice thickness to other sat
In January 2020 the mean sea-ice extent was 13.42 million km², i.e., ca. 0.97 million km² below the long-term average for the month (see Figures 1 and 2). In January the ice cover in the Arctic showed
Summary Current predictions by international forecast centres and researchers, collected and evaluated by the Sea Ice Drift Forecast Experiment (SIDFEx), suggest that there is a chance that the drift
After the sea-ice extent in the Artic reached its winter maximum on 12 March 2019, the melting season in the North Pole region began and soon reached an all-time low for the time of year (23 April 201
With the return of the Russian research icebreaker “Akademik Treshnikov” to the port of Murmansk, Russia, another successful chapter in Russian-German collaborative Arctic research drew to a close. On
Accordingly, being familiar with the different types of sea ice is important for a range of activities, including navigation at sea, modelling the ice-ocean-atmosphere system, and the remote sensing o
During the MOSAiC expedition, researchers from 19 countries will study the Arctic throughout an entire year, spending the winter in a region that is virtually inaccessible in the polar night. Alone th
On 11 September the sea-ice extent (sea-ice concentration > 15 %) was 3.94 million km² (see Figure 1) and on 3 September 2019 it had already decreased to 3.82 million km², the lowest level so far this
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