Airborne scientists get a close look at the changing Arctic.
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hanna on 11/5/2013, 9:50 am
I like this. There is a great short video.
As the Arctic Ocean begins to freeze for the winter, NOAA and University of Washington scientists gain insight from the air. October 31, 2013
Using the heavily-instrumented NOAA WP-3D Orion "Hurricane Hunter" research aircraft, scientists are conducting the first intensive Arctic overflight experiment to make quantitative measurements of autumn sea ice freezeup in the Chukchi sea, a region of potential oil exploration.
"An immediate observation is the near absence of older and thicker sea ice in the region. So far only a few small fragments of second-year sea ice have been spotted over hundreds of miles of low-altitude survey, whereas in times past thick multiyear sea ice was commonly found here." said Dr. Kevin Wood.
For entire story and video. http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/arctic/atmosphere/p3.html |
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