North Pole-35 focuses on ocean-ice-atmosphere interaction

ST. PETERSBURG, June 12 (Itar-Tass) -- Researchers at Russia's North Pole-35 drifting station have begun comprehensive research into "the fine natural mechanisms of interaction of the ocean, the surface of ice floes and the atmosphere in a vast ocean area 560 kilometers north of the Spitsbergen Archipelago," the Institute of the Arctic and the Antarctic told Itar-Tass earlier this week.
The chief of the high-latitude Arctic expedition, Vladimir Sokolov, said his colleagues would pay special attention to the process of carbon dioxide emissions and their absorption by the Arctic Ocean.
"These two factors are of fundamental importance to understanding
world weather and climate change," he explained.
Sokolov said that simultaneous monitoring was in progress of the
general ozone content, the intensity of ultra-violet radiation and the
content of carbon dioxide in the near-the-ice layer of the atmosphere.
"The North Pole-35 station manned by a crew of 20 will end its drift in August," Sokolov said.
Another wintering party of 20-25 Arctic researchers (the crew of the North Pole-36 station) will disembark onto a pre-selected ice floe from The Akademik Fyodorov (the flagship of the Arctic research fleet) at the end of the summer near the 70th meridian.