The first NPEO team members have headed north via Norway, and the Russian annual ice station Barneo is being established. Learn more about this multi-year project and read updates from the field as they come in.
Features
BBC: Cryosat confirms PIOMAS ice volume estimates
Europe’s Cryosat mission is now watching the ebb and flow of Arctic sea ice with high precision….Tuesday’s release shows a complete seasonal cycle, from October 2010, when the Arctic Ocean was beginning to freeze up following the summer melt, right through to March 2011, when the sea ice was approaching peak thickness. Cryosat found the volume (area multiplied by thickness) of sea ice in the central Arctic in March 2011 to have been 14,500 cubic kilometres. This figure is very similar to that suggested by PIOMAS (Panarctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System), an influential computer model that has been used to estimate Arctic sea ice volume
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PSC Investigator Matthew Alkire Awarded 2012-13 Fulbright U.S Scholar Grant
Investigator Matthew Alkire was recently awarded a 2012-13 Fulbright U.S Scholar Grant for his proposal titled, “Using sea ice cores to investigate the influence of glacial meltwater in surface waters of Kongsfjorden.”
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A really bad year for Arctic Sea Ice: Science News, 2011-10-06
PIOMAS Arctic Sea Ice Volume and excerpts from an interview with Axel Schweiger are covered in Science News. Click to read full story
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A New Unified Sea Ice Thickness Climate Data Record
This new data set is a concerted effort to collect as many observations of sea ice thickness as possible in one place with consistent formats and with clear and abundant documentation. It will allow the community to better utilize what is now a considerable body of observations from moorings, submarines, aircraft, and satellites.
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Arctic Sea Ice Volume Anomaly
The Arctic Sea Ice Volume Anomaly time series is calculated using the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) developed at APL/PSC. Updates will be generated at approximately monthly intervals.
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