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PolarPredictNews #14
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Polar Prediction announces the release of the newest issue of their newsletter, PolarPredictNews. PolarPredictNews is the official newsletter of the World Meteorological Organization's World Weather Research Programme Polar Prediction Project/Year of Polar Prediction initiative to improve weather and sea-ice forecasts in polar regions. This newsletter provides the community with the latest news on activities within the field of Arctic and Antarctic environmental prediction activities.
The 14th issue of the Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) newsletter provides the latest updates on activities within the polar prediction community and features an art-and-science project that evolved from the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition.
In this issue, scientists shed light on how the drift of Research Vessel Polarstern during the MOSAiC expedition is continuously being forecasted in the Sea Ice Drift Forecast Experiment (SIDFEx). The MOSAiC Near-Real-Time Verification invites further contributions to evaluate the skill of short-term forecasts with MOSAiC observations as part of the YOPPSiteMIP activity. During spring and summer this year, YOPP invites Arctic meteorological stations to contribute with extra weather balloon observations to the YOPP Targeted Observing Periods when Arctic cold-air outbreaks and warm and moist air mass intrusions are being simultaneously forecasted and observed.
This issue also includes:
- An interview with the Norwegian marine ecologist Marit Reigstad, Principal Investigator of the YOPP-endorsed Nansen Legacy project;
- New sea ice and ocean variables in the S2S Forecast Database;
- A how-to on publishing YOPP Datasets;
- Meeting updates due to the corona pandemic, with two sessions on polar prediction at European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2020: Sharing Geoscience Online; and
- Digital drawings of the MOSAiC Distributed Network of instruments produced by school teacher Friederike Krüger and modelling lecturer Thomas Rackow.
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https://www.polarprediction.net/news/polarpredictnews/