The Arctic’s largest climate-research expedition
| Today, the German icebreaker Polarstern will leave Norway for the Laptev Sea, north of Central Siberia. There, it will churn through the ice and sidle up to an ice floe, cut its engine and allow itself to fully freeze into place for the next 12 to 14 months. |
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The studies — of the atmosphere, ocean, ice and snow, and the interactions among them — are all focused on one goal: a better understanding of how warming will affect the region, now and into the future.
