MOSAIC Mission

Scientists from 17 nations will take part in the year-long mission. The mission has received funding from U.S. institutions such as the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and NASA.

Objective of the Mission :- To study the impact of climate change on the Arctic and how it would affect the rest of the world.

MOSAiC mission :-

• The MOSAiC mission stands for Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate.
• It is a one-year-long expedition into the Central Arctic, planned to take place from 2019 to 2020.
• MOSAiC will contribute to a quantum leap in our understanding of the coupled Arctic climate system and its representation in global climate models.
• The focus of MOSAiC lies on direct in-situ observations of the climate processes that couple the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, bio-geochemistry and ecosystem.

Why study Arctic climate?

• The Arctic is a key area of global climate change, with warming rates exceeding twice the global average.
• The observed rate of climate change in the Arctic is not well reproduced in climate models.
• Many processes in the Arctic climate system are poorly represented in climate models because they are not sufficiently understood.
• Understanding of Arctic climate processes is limited by a lack of year round observations in the central Arctic.