Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Atmosphere

MD Shupe, M Rex, B Blomquist, POG Persson… - Elem Sci …, 2022 - online.ucpress.edu
With the Arctic rapidly changing, the needs to observe, understand, and model the changes
are essential. To support these needs, an annual cycle of observations of atmospheric …

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 …

Tethered balloon-borne profile measurements of atmospheric properties in the cloudy atmospheric boundary layer over the Arctic sea ice during MOSAiC: Overview …

M Lonardi, C Pilz, EF Akansu, S Dahlke… - Elem Sci …, 2022 - online.ucpress.edu
The tethered balloon-borne measurement system BELUGA (Balloon-bornE moduLar Utility
for profilinG the lower Atmosphere) was deployed over the Arctic sea ice for 4 weeks in …

Arctic warming by abundant fine sea salt aerosols from blowing snow

X Gong, J Zhang, B Croft, X Yang, MM Frey… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The Arctic warms nearly four times faster than the global average, and aerosols play an
increasingly important role in Arctic climate change. In the Arctic, sea salt is a major aerosol …

Surface temperature comparison of the Arctic winter MOSAiC observations, ERA5 reanalysis, and MODIS satellite retrieval

L Herrmannsdörfer, M Müller, MD Shupe… - Elem Sci …, 2023 - online.ucpress.edu
Atmospheric model systems, such as those used for weather forecast and reanalysis
production, often have significant and systematic errors in their representation of the Arctic …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Constraints on simulated past Arctic amplification and lapse rate feedback from observations

O Linke, J Quaas, F Baumer, S Becker… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
The Arctic has warmed more rapidly than the global mean during the past few decades. The
lapse rate feedback (LRF) has been identified as being a large contributor to the Arctic …

Profile observations of the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer with the BELUGA tethered balloon during MOSAiC

C Pilz, M Lonardi, U Egerer, H Siebert, A Ehrlich… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract During the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate
(MOSAiC) expedition, the Balloon-bornE moduLar Utility for profilinG the lower Atmosphere …

Sea ice drift tracks from autonomous buoys in the MOSAiC Distributed Network

AC Bliss, JK Hutchings, DM Watkins - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
A network of autonomous, ice-tethered buoys was deployed around the Multidisciplinary
drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) experiment in late September …

[HTML][HTML] Snowfall and snow accumulation during the MOSAiC winter and spring seasons

DN Wagner, MD Shupe, C Cox, OG Persson… - The …, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
Data from the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC)
expedition allowed us to investigate the temporal dynamics of snowfall, snow accumulation …