The MOSAiC ice floe: sediment-laden survivor from the Siberian shelf

Krumpen, Thomas; Birrien, Florent; Kauker, Frank; Rackow, Thomas; von Albedyll, Luisa; Angelopoulos, Michael; Belter, H. Jakob; Bessonov, Vladimir; Damm, Ellen; Dethloff, Klaus; Haapala, Jari; Haas, Christian; Harris, Carolynn; Hendricks, Stefan; Hoelemann, Jens; Hoppmann, Mario; Kaleschke, Lars; Karcher, Michael; Kolabutin, Nikolai; Lei, Ruibo; Lenz, Josefine; Morgenstern, Anne; Nicolaus, Marcel; Nixdorf, Uwe; Petrovsky, Tomash; Rabe, Benjamin; Rabenstein, Lasse; Rex, Markus; Ricker, Robert; Rohde, Jan; Shimanchuk, Egor; Singha, Suman; Smolyanitsky, Vasily; Sokolov, Vladimir; Stanton, Tim; Timofeeva, Anna; Tsamados, Michel; Watkins, Daniel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2173-2020

Articles | Volume 14, issue 7

The Cryosphere, 14, 2173–2187, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2173-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

The Cryosphere, 14, 2173–2187, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2173-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 7

Research article 06 Jul 2020

Research article | 06 Jul 2020

The MOSAiC ice floe: sediment-laden survivor from the Siberian shelf

Thomas Krumpen et al.

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- AC1: 'Reply to comments made by Reviewer 1', T. Krumpen, 18 May 2020
RC2: 'The MOSAiC ice floe: sediment-laden survivor from the Siberian shelf', Anonymous Referee #2, 03 May 2020
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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (28 May 2020) by Yevgeny Aksenov

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ED: Publish as is (21 Jun 2020) by Yevgeny Aksenov

Short summary

In October 2019 the research vessel Polarstern was moored to an ice floe in order to travel with it on the 1-year-long MOSAiC journey through the Arctic. Here we provide historical context of the floe's evolution and initial state for upcoming studies. We show that the ice encountered on site was exceptionally thin and was formed on the shallow Siberian shelf. The analyses presented provide the initial state for the analysis and interpretation of upcoming biogeochemical and ecological studies.