Low Sea-Ice Cover in the Arctic: Second-Lowest September Minimum
overlaid by short-term fluctuations. The lowest value so far for 2019 was 3.82 million square kilometers, observed on September 3. This means that this year, the September average could be below 4 million [...] satellite observations can hold. Data from the MOSAiC expedition will help to reduce these uncertainties,” explains Dr Gunnar Spreen from the University of Bremen’s Institute for Environmental Physics. Searching [...] interested in the northern Laptev Sea: on September 20, the research icebreaker Polarstern will set sail from Tromsø, in Norway, for the start of the MOSAiC expedition. In the northern Laptev Sea they will