Arctic reality

Arctic reality

The threat to the Hudson Bay polar bears highlights the reality of a changing climate under attack from sceptics.

Arctic Science Conference State of the Arctic

Fairbanks, Alaska October 2 nd-4 th

Arctic Sentinels

On a cloud-covered morning in April, Feiyue Wang trudges down the gangway of the Canadian research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen and joins three graduate students and a rifle-toting research technician on the ice below. They set out on snowmobiles across the snow-covered slab of ice adrift in the Beaufort Sea and stop at an untouched patch of the ice floe. They unload coolers, thermoses, a generator...

Arctic paws.

Arctic pathways of Pacific Water: Arctic Ocean Model Intercomparison experiments

Pacific Water (PW) enters the Arctic Ocean through Bering Strait and brings in heat, fresh water, and nutrients from the northern Bering Sea. The circulation of PW in the central Arctic Ocean is only partially understood due to the lack of observations. In this paper, pathways of PW are investigated using simulations with six state-of-the art regional and global Ocean General Circulation Models...