Arctic Research of the United States articles

Recent articles from Arctic Research of the United States

Executive summary.(Arctic Observing Network: Toward a U.S. Contribution to Pan-Arctic Observing)
January 1, 2007... In April 2007 the US Interagency Research Policy Committee (IARPC) called for the development of an Arctic Observing Network (AON) to understand the causes and consequences of Arctic change. Under the joint leadership of NOAA and NSF, Committee staff prepared Arctic Observing Network (AON):...

Foreword.(Arctic Observing Network: Toward a U.S. Contribution to Pan-Arctic Observing)(Study of Environmental Arctic Change)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... At the April 2007 IARPC meeting the Principals unanimously agreed to charge the Staff with the development of AON as part of the implementation of SEARCH (Study of Environmental Arctic Change) and as a US contribution to the legacy of the International Polar Year (IPY). The full text of the...

1. Introduction.(Arctic Observing Network: Toward a U.S. Contribution to Pan-Arctic Observing)
January 1, 2007... The Arctic environment is changing. The changes are large, rapid and system-wide. They have few equals elsewhere on Earth, and some are occurring at greater rates than predicted by computer models. Arctic Change has regional and global implications, and continued changes will have significant...

2. An urgent need for observations in the changing Arctic.(Arctic Observing Network: Toward a U.S. Contribution to Pan-Arctic Observing)
January 1, 2007... On 16 August 2007, satellite passive microwave monitoring of Arctic sea ice extent revealed that it had equaled the record minimum that had been achieved only two years earlier on 20 September 2005. Subsequently, on 16 September 2007, a new record minimum sea ice extent of 4.13 million square...

3. AON: vision statements and calls for action.(Arctic Observing Network: Toward a U.S. Contribution to Pan-Arctic Observing)
January 1, 2007... There is broad consensus for developing enhanced, coordinated and sustained observing sites, systems and networks in the Arctic. This consensus is represented by two widely-quoted reports: the SEARCH Implementation Plan (SEARCH, 2005) and a US National Academies report on AON (NRC, 2006)....