• Linking sea ice deformation to ice thickness redistribution using high-resolution satellite and airborne observations 

      Von Albedyll, Luisa; Haas, Christian; Dierking, Wolfgang Fritz Otto (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-04)
      An unusual, large, latent-heat polynya opened and then closed by freezing and convergence north of Greenland’s coast in late winter 2018. The closing presented a natural but well-constrained full-scale ice deformation experiment. We observed the closing of and deformation within the polynya with satellite synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) imagery and measured the accumulated effects of dynamic ...
    • Monitoring a changing Arctic: Recent advancements in the study of sea ice microbial communities 

      Matero, Ilkka; Bellas, Christopher; Turpin-Jelfs, Thomas; Anhaus, Philipp; Graeve, Martin; Fripiat, Francois; Tranter, Martyn; Landy, Jack Christopher; Sanchez-Baracaldo, Patricia; Leu, Eva; Katlein, Christian; Mundy, C.J.; Rysgaard, Søren; Tedesco, Letizia; Haas, Christian; Nicolaus, Marcel (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-25)
      Sea ice continues to decline across many regions of the Arctic, with remaining ice becoming increasingly younger and more dynamic. These changes alter the habitats of microbial life that live within the sea ice, which support healthy functioning of the marine ecosystem and provision of resources for human-consumption, in addition to influencing biogeochemical cycles (e.g. air–sea CO2 exchange). With ...
    • Platelet ice under Arctic pack ice in winter 

      Katlein, Christian; Mohrholz, Volker; Sheikin, Igor; Itkin, Polona; Divine, Dmitry; Stroeve, Julienne C.; Jutila, Arttu; Krampe, Daniela; Shimanchuk, Egor; Raphael, Ian; Rabe, Benjamin; Kuznetsov, Ivan; Mallet, Maria; Liu, Hailong; Hoppmann, Mario; Fang, Ying‐Chih; Dumitrascu, Adela; Arndt, Stefanie; Anhaus, Philipp; Nicolaus, Marcel; Matero, Ilkka; Oggier, Marc; Eicken, Hajo; Haas, Christian (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-17)
      The formation of platelet ice is well known to occur under Antarctic sea ice, where subice platelet layers form from supercooled ice shelf water. In the Arctic, however, platelet ice formation has not been extensively observed, and its formation and morphology currently remain enigmatic. Here, we present the first comprehensive, long‐term in situ observations of a decimeter thick subice platelet ...
    • Thermodynamic and dynamic contributions to seasonal Arctic sea ice thickness distributions from airborne observations 

      von Albeldyll, Luisa; Hendricks, Stefan; Grodofzig, Raphael; Krumpen, Thomas; Arndt, Stefanie; Belter, H. Jakob; Birnbaum, Gerit; Cheng, Bin; Hoppmann, Mario; Hutchings, Jennifer; Itkin, Polona; Lei, Ruibo; Nicolaus, Marcel; Ricker, Robert; Rohde, Jan; Suhrhoff, Mira; Timofeeva, Anna; Watkins, Daniel; Webster, Melinda; Haas, Christian (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-18)
      Sea ice thickness is a key parameter in the polar climate and ecosystem. Thermodynamic and dynamic processes alter the sea ice thickness.The Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition provided a unique opportunity to study seasonal sea ice thickness changes of the same sea ice. We analyzed 11 large-scale (*50 km) airborne electromagnetic sea thickness ...