• Crude oil exposure reduces ice algal growth in a sea-ice mesocosm experiment 

      Dilliplaine, Kyle; Oggier, Marc; Collins, R Eric; Eicken, Hajo; Gradinger, Rolf; Bluhm, Bodil (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-18)
      Oil production in Arctic ice-covered areas poses a risk for pollution of the ecosystem including that within the brine channel network of sea ice. Sea-ice autotrophs contribute substantially to Arctic primary production, but are inherently difficult to test for oil exposure responses in situ. This study had two objectives, first, we developed a suitable lab-based mesocosm system, second, we tested ...
    • MOSIDEO/CIRFA Tank Experiments on Behavior and Detection of Oil in Ice 

      Petrich, Christian; O'Sadnick, Megan Eileen; Brekke, Camilla; Myrnes, Marianne; Maus, Sønke; Salomon, Martina Lan; Woelk, Sofie; Grydeland, Tom; Jenssen, Rolf-Ole Rydeng; Eicken, Hajo; Oggier, Marc; Ferro-Famil, Laurent; Harkati, Lekhmissi; Rebane, Ott; Reimer, Nils (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2019-06)
      In the Arctic, presence of sea ice presents a challenge to safe and sustainable operations. To optimize planning and minimize impact of inadvertent oil spills, oil-in-ice experiments were performed at the HSVA Arctic Environmental Test Basin (AETB) from 14 March to 4 April 2017. Following an under-ice spill and simulated springtime warming, the microscopic movement and distribution of oil in the sea ...
    • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Snow and sea ice 

      Marcel, Nicolaus; Perovich, Donald; Spreen, Gunnar; Granskog, Mats; Divine, Dmitry; Gerland, Sebastian; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Høyland, Knut Vilhelm; Salganik, Evgenii; Albedyll, Luisa von; Angelopoulos, Michael; Anhaus, Philipp; Arndt, Stefanie; Belter, H. Jakob; Bessonov, Vladimir; Birnbaum, Gerit; Brauchle, Jörg; Calmer, Radiance; Cardellach, Estel; Cheng, Bin; Clemens-Sewall, David; Dadic, Ruzica; Damm, Ellen; de Boer, Gijs; Demir, Oguz; Dethloff, Klaus; Fong, Allison A.; Fons, Steven; Frey, Markus M.; Fuchs, Niels; Gabarro, Carolina; Goessling, Helge F.; Haapala, Jari; Haas, Christian; Hamilton, Jonathan; Hannula, Henna-Reetta; Hendricks, Stefan; Herber, Andreas; Heuze´, Céline; Hoppmann, Mario; Huntemann, Marcus; Hutchings, Jennifer K.; Kaleschke, Lars; Katlein, Christian; Kolabutin, Nikolai; Krampe, Daniela; Savstrup Kristensen, Steen; Krumpen, Thomas; Kurtz, Nathan; Lampert, Astrid; Lange, Benjamin Allen; Lei, Ruibo; Light, Bonnie; Linhardt, Felix; Liston, Glen E.; Loose, Brice; Macfarlane, Amy R.; Mahmud, Mallik; Matero, Ilkka O.; Maus, Sönke; Morgenstern, Anne; Naderpour, Reza; Nandan, Vishnu; Niubom, Alexey; Oggier, Marc; Oppelt, Natascha; Pätzold, Falk; Perron, Christophe; Petrovsky, Tomasz; Pirazzini, Roberta; Polashenski, Chris; Rabe, Benjamin; Raphael, Ian A.; Regnery, Julia; Rex, Markus; Ricker, Robert; Riemann-Campe, Kathrin; Rinke, Annette; Rohde, Jan; Scharien, Randall K.; Schiller, Martin; Schneebeli, Martin; Semmling, Maximilian; Shimanchuk, Egor; Stroeve, Julienne; Thielke, Linda; Timofeeva, Anna; Tonboe, Rasmus Tage; Tavri, Aikterini; Tsamados, Michel; Wagner, David N.; Watkins, Daniel; Webster, Melinda; Wendisch, Manfred (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-07)
      Year-round observations of the physical snow and ice properties and processes that govern the ice pack evolution and its interaction with the atmosphere and the ocean were conducted during the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition of the research vessel Polarstern in the Arctic Ocean from October 2019 to September 2020. This work was embedded ...
    • 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 ...
    • Retrieval of Snow Depth on Arctic Sea Ice From Surface-Based, Polarimetric, Dual-Frequency Radar Altimetry 

      Willatt, Rosemary; Stroeve, Julienne; Nandan, Vishnu; Newman, Thomas; Mallett, Robbie; Hendricks, Stefan; Ricker, Robert; Mead, James; Itkin, Polona; Tonboe, Rasmus; Wagner, David N.; Spreen, Gunnar; Liston, Glen; Schneebeli, Martin; Krampe, Daniela; Tsamados, Michel; Demir, Oguz; Wilkinson, Jeremy; Jaggi, Matthias; Zhou, Lu; Huntemann, Marcus; Raphael, Ian A.; Jutila, Arttu; Oggier, Marc (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-18)
      Snow depth on sea ice is an Essential Climate Variable and a major source of uncertainty in satellite altimetry-derived sea ice thickness. During winter of the MOSAiC Expedition, the “KuKa” dual-frequency, fully polarized Ku- and Ka-band radar was deployed in “stare” nadir-looking mode to investigate the possibility of combining these two frequencies to retrieve snow depth. Three approaches ...
    • Sea ice and snow characteristics from year-long transects at the MOSAiC Central Observatory 

      Itkin, Polona; Hendricks, Stefan; Webster, Melinda A.; Albedyll, Luisa von; Arndt, Stefanie; Divine, Dmitry; Jaggi, Matthias; Oggier, Marc; Raphael, Ian A.; Ricker, Robert; Rohde, Jan; Schneebeli, Martin; Liston, Glen E. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-16)
      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 transects at the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) 2019–2020, which represent the first such measurements collected across an entire season. Compared with similar historical transects, ...
    • Snowfall and snow accumulation during the MOSAiC winter and spring seasons 

      Wagner, David N.; Shupe, Matthew D.; Cox, Christopher; Persson, Ola G.; Uttal, Taneil; Frey, Markus M.; Kirchgaessner, Amélie; Schneebeli, Martin; Jaggi, Matthias; MacFarlane, Amy R.; Itkin, Polona; Arndt, Stefanie; Hendricks, Stefan; Krampe, Daniela; Nicolaus, Marcel; Ricker, Robert; Regnery, Julia; Kolabutin, Nikolai; Shimanshuck, Egor; Oggier, Marc; Raphael, Ian; Stroeve, Julienne; Lehning, Michael (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-17)
      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 and erosion in great detail for almost the whole accumulation season (November 2019 to May 2020). We computed cumulative snow water equivalent (SWE) over the sea ice based on snow depth and density retrievals from a ...
    • Sub-kilometre scale distribution of snow depth on Arctic sea ice from Soviet drifting stations 

      Mallett, Robbie; Stroeve, Julienne C.; Tsamados, Michel; Willatt, Rosemary; Newman, Thomas; Nandan, Vishnu; Landy, Jack Christopher; Itkin, Polona; Oggier, Marc; Jaggi, Matthias; Perovich, Don (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-04)
      The sub-kilometre scale distribution of snow depth on Arctic sea ice impacts atmosphere-ice fluxes of energy and mass, and is of importance for satellite estimates of sea-ice thickness from both radar and lidar altimeters. While information about the mean of this distribution is increasingly available from modelling and remote sensing, the full distribution cannot yet be resolved. We analyse 33 539 ...
    • Temporal evolution of under-ice meltwater layers and false bottoms and their impact on summer Arctic sea ice mass balance 

      Salganik, Evgenii; Katlein, Christian; Lange, Benjamin; Matero, Ilkka; Lei, Ruibo; Fong, Allison A.; Fons, Steven; Divine, Dmitry; Oggier, Marc; Castellani, Giulia; Bozzato, Deborah; Chamberlain, Emelia; Hoppe, Clara J. M.; Müller, Oliver; Gardner, Jessie; Rinke, Annette; Simoes Pereira, Patric; Ulfsbo, Adam; Marsay, Christopher; Webster, Melinda; Maus, Sønke; Høyland, Knut Vilhelm; Granskog, Mats (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-31)
      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 of new ice layers, or false bottoms, at the interface of this low-salinity meltwater and colder seawater. As part of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of the Arctic Climate (MOSAiC), we used a ...