Arctic Report Card 2020 Executive Summary

Thoman, Richard L.; Richter-Menge, Jacqueline; Druckenmiller, Matthew L.

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Arctic Report Card 2020 Executive Summary

2020
By Thoman, Richard L. ; Richter-Menge, Jacqueline ; Druckenmiller, Matthew L.
Series: Arctic Report Card

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Alternative Title:

Executive Summary
Personal Author:

Thoman, Richard L. ; Richter-Menge, Jacqueline ; Druckenmiller, Matthew L.
Corporate Authors:

Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (U.S.) ; International Arctic Research Center ; University of Alaska Fairbanks ; National Snow and Ice Data Center (U.S.) ; University of Colorado Boulder ; United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research ; Global Ocean Observing System ; Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.) ; Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (U.S.) ; Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (Fort Collins, Colo.)
NOAA Program & Office:

OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; GOMO (Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing) ; CPO (Climate Program Office) ; GFDL (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory) ; PMEL (Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory) ; CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) ; CICOES (Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies)
Description:

The Arctic Report Card (ARC) provides an annual update on the state of the Arctic's climate and environment as well as highlights of Arctic science news of the past year. ARC2020 features 16 essays, 11 of which provide updates on a wide range of Arctic science topics, from the past year's air temperatures and sea ice conditions to the latest in bowhead whale research. Taken as a whole, across a variety of disciplines and viewpoints, the story is unambiguous: the transformation of the Arctic to a warmer, less frozen, and biologically changed region is well underway. Extreme high temperatures in the Eurasian Arctic in spring and summer 2020 provide a clear demonstration of the strong connections within the Arctic environment that characterize this region. Three closely connected essays examine the acquisition of observational data and their use in modeling to understand physical systems in the Arctic. ARC2020 also marks the publication's 15th anniversary. Two essays reflect back across the evolution of the ARC itself and the tools utilized to help understand the changes in progress. We must report that, like so much else, ARC2020 was altered by the COVID-19 pandemic. A planned essay on the impacts of the changing Arctic on food security from the viewpoints of Indigenous marine mammal hunters from two northwest Alaska communities had to be postponed to a future ARC due to travel and community-related exposure restrictions.
Keywords:

Bowhead Whale Climatology Environment Low Temperatures Research Sea Ice Upper Air Temperature Bowhead Whale Low Temperatures Sea Ice Upper Air Temperature
Series:

Arctic Report Card
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25923/mn5p-t549
Document Type:

Administrative Report
Funding:

Award No. NA16OAR4310162 ; Cooperative Agreement Nos. NA16NOS0120027 ; NA17OAR4320101
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Public Domain
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