What people don't understand about the Arctic is that this isn't just about those other people, those Eskimos that have nothing to do with us. The Arctic drives the climate of the whole globe. -- Gretel Ehrlich
Selected Resources
- Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (Union of Concerned Scientists) Global warming is happening now, bringing changes to our climate and our world. Yet the climate is changing at an accelerated pace in the Arctic region. In the past few decades, temperatures in the Arctic have risen at nearly twice the rate as in the rest of the world, disrupting the region and its people in many ways. A new overview report of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, Impacts of a Warming Arctic, explores these impacts in depth.
- Is 3.5 C of Arctic warming locked in? A Carbon Brief analysis shows that a mistaken UNEP press release led some media outlets to err in reporting that most future Arctic warming is 'locked in.' The analysis shows ongoing and future emissions still will play a major role in how much the region warms.
- Arctic Climate Change Update (2019) An update to snow, water, ice, permafrost in the arctic SWIPA (2017)
- How climate change is melting, drying and flooding Earth — in pictures Nature’s pick of the best science images is this month dedicated to climate change — and the researchers who study it.
- Polar cod in jeopardy under the retreating Arctic sea ice The Arctic amplification of global warming is causing the Arctic-Atlantic ice edge to retreat at unprecedented rates.
Source: NASA
Global Warming in the Arctic - Summer 2019
Arctic Climate Change - BBC Documentary (2017)
Selected Arctic Climate Change Tools
- Arctic Data Integration Portal This portal integrates various types of Arctic data from sensor feeds, operational oceanographic and atmospheric models, satellite observations and GIS data sets describing the biological and physical characteristics of the Arctic region.
- AOOS Ocean Data Explorer The Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS) is a national network that works to address regional and national needs for ocean information, gather specific data on key coastal and ocean variables, and ensure timely and sustained dissemination and availability of these data.
- AOOS Real-time Sensor Catalog The AOOS real-time sensor catalog compiles current meteorologic and oceanographic data for the State of Alaska from real-time in situ sensors.
- National Weather Service (NWS) Alaska Sea Ice Program NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) Alaska Sea Ice Program (ASIP) produces a variety of sea ice products throughout the year for waters around Alaska including (1) a daily sea ice concentration analysis, (2) a daily sea ice stage analysis, (3) a 5-day sea ice forecast, (4) Cook Inlet-specific analyses, and (5) a sea surface temperature analyses.
- Alaska ShoreZone Imagery ShoreZone is a mapping and classification system that specializes in the collection and interpretation of low-altitude aerial imagery of the coastal environment.
- NODC Arctic Regional Climatology Monthly To facilitate study of the Arctic region, the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) Regional Climatology Team calculated a set of long-term mean surface and subsurface temperature and salinity fields using data from the World Ocean Database, a library of oceanographic measurements from a variety of sources that began accumulating data in 1902.