Continuous observations of the surface energy budget and meteorology over the Arctic sea ice during MOSAiC

CJ Cox, MR Gallagher, MD Shupe, POG Persson… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC)
was a yearlong expedition supported by the icebreaker R/V Polarstern, following the …

Sea ice and snow characteristics from year-long transects at the MOSAiC Central Observatory

P Itkin, S Hendricks, M Webster, L von Albedyll… - Elem Sci …, 2023 - online.ucpress.edu
Repeated transects have become the backbone of spatially distributed ice and snow
thickness measurements crucial for understanding of ice mass balance. Here we detail the …

The winter central Arctic surface energy budget: A model evaluation using observations from the MOSAiC campaign

A Solomon, MD Shupe, G Svensson, NP Barton… - Elem Sci …, 2023 - online.ucpress.edu
This study evaluates the simulation of wintertime (15 October, 2019, to 15 March, 2020)
statistics of the central Arctic near-surface atmosphere and surface energy budget observed …

Thin and transient meltwater layers and false bottoms in the Arctic sea ice pack—Recent insights on these historically overlooked features

MM Smith, H Angot, EJ Chamberlain… - Elementa: Science of …, 2023 - online.ucpress.edu
Estimates of ground-level ozone concentrations have been improved through data fusion of
observations and atmospheric chemistry models. Our previous global ozone estimates for …

Temporal evolution of under-ice meltwater layers and false bottoms and their impact on summer Arctic sea ice mass balance

E Salganik, C Katlein, BA Lange, I Matero, R Lei… - Elem Sci …, 2023 - online.ucpress.edu
Low-salinity meltwater from Arctic sea ice and its snow cover accumulates and creates
under-ice meltwater layers below sea ice. These meltwater layers can result in the formation …

The characteristics of atmospheric boundary layer height over the Arctic Ocean during MOSAiC

S Peng, Q Yang, MD Shupe, X Xi, B Han… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
The important roles that the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) plays in the central Arctic
climate system have been recognized, but the atmospheric boundary layer height (ABLH) …

Observing the evolution of summer melt on multiyear sea ice with ICESat-2 and Sentinel-2

EM Buckley, SL Farrell, UC Herzfeld, MA Webster… - The …, 2023 - tc.copernicus.org
We investigate sea ice conditions during the 2020 melt season, when warm air temperature
anomalies in spring led to early melt onset, an extended melt season, and the second …

Sea ice heat and mass balance measurements from four autonomous buoys during the MOSAiC drift campaign

D Perovich, I Raphael, R Moore… - Elementa: Science of …, 2023 - online.ucpress.edu
As part of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC),
four autonomous seasonal ice mass balance buoys were deployed in first-and second-year …

Observations of preferential summer melt of Arctic sea-ice ridge keels from repeated multibeam sonar surveys

E Salganik, BA Lange, C Katlein, I Matero… - The Cryosphere …, 2023 - tc.copernicus.org
Sea-ice ridges constitute a large fraction of the total Arctic sea-ice area (up to 40–50%);
nevertheless, they are the least studied part of the Arctic ice pack. Here we investigate sea …

Automated detection and depth determination of melt ponds on sea ice in ICESat-2 ATLAS data—The density-dimension algorithm for bifurcating sea-ice reflectors …

UC Herzfeld, TM Trantow, H Han… - … on Geoscience and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As climate warms and the transition from a perennial to a seasonal Arctic sea-ice cover is
imminent, understanding melt ponding is central to understanding changes in the new …