Berlin-SANA
The German Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research announced today the return of the largest scientific mission after a year of research on climate change in the Arctic to Bremerhaven in northwestern Germany.
AFP quoted institute director Antje Boetius as saying ... that the Polarstern icebreaker has returned.
According to the agency, the mission, called Mosaic, collected ample data during the months it spent in the frozen waters, which promises to provide valuable information on climate change.
In turn, mission chief Marcus Rex said that during the summer, scientists from 20 countries were able to observe the extent of the receding of the Arctic ice mass, which experts consider the epicenter of global warming.
The mission, which was attended by hundreds of experts and scientists from 20 countries who resided on board the ship that traveled with the ocean current extending from east to west in the Arctic Ocean, studied the atmosphere, ocean, ice mass and ecosystem to collect data that would assess the repercussions of climate change on the region and the world Collect.
It is expected that the full analysis of these data will take a year or two, and the goal is to devise models for forecasting the climate in order to determine how heat waves, heavy rains and storms will be, for example, in 20, 50 or 100 years.