Understanding tomorrow’s Arctic

Hundreds of international researchers are currently analysing observations from the year-long MOSAiC expedition, during which hundreds of environmental parameters were recorded with unprecedented accuracy and frequency over a full annual cycle in the central Arctic Ocean. Three review articles on the MOSAiC programmes for atmosphere, snow and sea ice, and ocean have now been published in the journal Elementa, highlighting the importance of looking at all components of the climate system together. These results provide the first complete picture of climate processes in the central Arctic, which is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet - processes that affect weather and climate worldwide. ...