Breakout Summary Report
ARM/ASR User and PI Meeting
Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC)
22 June 2021
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
100
Matthew Shupe, Laura Riihimaki, Jessie Creamean
22 June 2021
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
100
Matthew Shupe, Laura Riihimaki, Jessie Creamean
Breakout Description
This session provided an overview of the MOSAiC mission and accomplishments, summarized the collected data and derived data products, offered some early modeling perspectives, and provided a venue for MOSAiC scientists to present initial findings. The discussion aimed to inform, engage, and coordinate a broader user community in MOSAiC observations.Main Discussion
The general flow of the session started with a general overview of the field campaign part of MOSAiC. Following this presentation was brief discussion about the spatial context for MOSAiC and the coupled nature of the arctic system and how atmosphere and possibly ocean heat fluxes could trigger thermodynamic change within the sea ice. The second presentation was a summary of ARM data processing and products, which provided an overview of operational successes and challenges over the year in the field. Numerous questions were asked about radar data and derived products, and about the possibilities for developing some sort of pollution flagging for the aerosol measurements. There was also a question about availability for other MOSAiC data. To this last point, Shupe clarified that much of the MOSAiC data will be archived at the PANGAEA archive in Germany, which will also include some cross-referencing to ARM data, and that only ARM data will be stored at the ARM archive. ARM is a role model here for having very open data policies and making its data publicly available as soon as possible.View the full main discussion here.