With a goal to study the role of Arctic and Antarctic Oceans in shaping the climate and ecosystems of the earth, Russian scientists in collaboration with German scientist plan to carry out a project in August. This project is one of the many projects of International Polar Year. It’ll be for the first time in the history of Russian research that drifting stations will be used. Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in St Petersburg will together work on the project.
The scientists and researchers will go on an eight month voyage through the Arctic Ocean to examine the coupling of sea ice and atmosphere. Russian project partners will focus their investigations on sea ice, primarily performing measurements close to the ice. These measurements will be supplemented by Jurgen Graeser.
There will be 36 expedition participants that will board the Russian research vessel Akademik Fedorov in the Siberian harbor of Tiksi on August 29, 2007. They will advance the currently patchy data situation in the Arctic. A stable ice floe between 80 and 85 degrees northern latitude and between 170 degrees eastern and 170 degrees western longitude will be chosen as the base for the drifting station North Pole 35.
The ice floe will drift in the Arctic Ocean and across the North Pole during winter. During this drift the information about current climate change will be provided by the variety of measurements carried out at the station.
The upper ocean layer, sea ice, and snow cover will be investigated. Atmospheric measurements of meteorological parameters such as temperature, wind, humidity and air pressure, will be added through recordings of trace gases such as carbon dioxide and ozone.
Polar 5, the research aircraft of the Alfred Wegener Institute will fly out Jurgen Graeser and five Russian colleagues after approximately eight months, in April 2008.
Landing strip will be constructed on the ice. The project will help the scientists to understand the key regions for global climate change.
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