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Preferred term
SCSCS
Definition
- Short Title: SCSCS Proposal URL: http://classic.ipy.org/development/eoi/proposal-details.php?id=357 During last decades in the Euroarctic Region there is observed a stable tendency towards warming that enables us to assume that this is not a short-time deviations of the climatic system from the equilibrium but long-lasted changes. To main factors forming the climate of the Spitsbergen Archipelago one could refer its geographical location, atmospheric circulation, ocean impact, sea and continental ice sheet, complicated morphometrics. On the Spitsbergen Archipelago there exists the huge mass of fresh water in a form of cryosphere elements (glaciers, snow cover, naleds), it has a specific biota and at the same time locates in the area of a relatively intensive economic activity compared with other Arctic Archipelagos... Thus, Cryosphere, Hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere of the Archipelago is a noticeable objects-indicator of the current status of the Arctic climate system and estimates of its future changes. Along with this Spitsbergen is a wonderful science platform for studying the overall spectrum of reactions of Polar Regions nature on the climate variations both of natural and anthropogenic origin. Nowadays, a large complex of scientific researches and monitoring of the Spitsbergen Archipelago environment is carried out on the basis of the infrastructure of the Russian village Barents burg, Norwegian villages Longierbuen and New-Alesunn and also the Polish research base Hornsunn. Meteorological, aerological, ice, oceanographic, biological and other observations are performed. It is considered to perform the following complex investigations of the Spitsbergen Archipelago environment in the framework of this project: Main project goals are: - development and unification of the existing system of complex monitoring of the principal climate forming parameters of the environment status in the area of the Spitsbergen Archipelago estimation of the features of the present status of the principal components of the climatic and systems of the Archipelago and surrounding Euro-Arctic aquatic regions -on the basis of the analysis of databases obtained during the project implementation and historical Russian and available international databases ; Understanding of the impact mechanisms of external climate factors on the nature of the Spitsbergen Archipelago; development of the scientific basis of the scenarios of possible climate changes of the Archipelago environment and forecast of possible ecological impact; - improvement of the technology and technical means for the system of hydrometeorological monitoring of the environment. The investigations are complex ones. So, there are some separate sub-programs co-operating in the framework of general research program including the following directions: -Meteorological regime; -Hydrological regime of dry land; -Energy-exchange processes between the atmosphere and underlying surface; -Ice-cover evolution; -Structure and dynamics of coastal waters including fiords; -Climate and fresh water balance; -Sea-ice evolution; - Monitoring of contamination of air and water ambience -Studies of the composite and concentration of radio-active gases in the atmosphere and ocean; -Flora and fauna research; -Validation of results from remote sounding of the environment components; -Testing and experimental service of new measurement complexes for the Archipelago environment monitoring. Implementation of the above sub-programs will be realized on the basis of ZGMO «Baretsburg» (AARI, Murmansk ASMS), Norwegian research station in New Alesunn village (NPI) and Polish station in the Hornsunn Bay (Polish Academy of Sciences). Also it is assumed to perform, on the basis of the previous AARI field studies on the Archipelago, the constant-basis observations at a number of geographical objects (glaciers, lakes, river valleys, etc) for which there exist multi-year sets of field data. Here we suppose to use both automation measuring complexes and random observations using helicopters, sea- vehicles etc. (en)
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https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/12caff33-ed60-4b57-beb3-2c70abd9d27f
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