Open AccessScientists Spend Arctic Winter Adrift on Sea Ice
Author(s) -
Yngve Kristoffersen,
Audun Tholfsen,
John K. Hall,
Ruediger Stein
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2016eo060711
Subject(s) - arctic , sea ice , the arctic , arctic ice pack , oceanography , geology , climatology , physical geography , geography
A hovercraft-based ice drift station gives researchers access to previously inaccessible regions of the changing Arctic sea ice cover off the coast of Greenland.