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by Matthew Shupe, CIRES\/NOAA scientist and co-coordinator of MOSAiC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ice around us, at least on the Fortress, is filthy. In many locations it is brown with sediment. Many small rocks have been found, suggesting that this ice was initially formed as land-fast ice along the Siberian Shelf. A recent satellite radar image shows that this floe is somewhat different from the ice around us. It is more ridged and with more extensive pond formation. I wonder how much these two go together. Higher ridging will collect more snow, which will lead to more melt water. And the large ridge features keep this melt water trapped leading to the extensive ponding that we see. The ponds on the other side of the floe, over on the so-called \u201cfirst year ice\u201d side, are smaller and more like those I\u2019ve been around in the past.\u00a0 This MOSAiC floe appears to be quite unique and it continues to reveal an interesting story\u2026.. now through sediment that emerges with the progressing melt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A melt pond emerges between large ridges on the MOSAiC ice floe. Photo: Markus Rex\/AWI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Matthew Shupe, CIRES\/NOAA scientist and co-coordinator of MOSAiC The ice around us, at least on the Fortress, is filthy. In many locations it is brown with sediment. Many small rocks have been found, suggesting that this ice was initially formed as land-fast ice along the Siberian Shelf. A recent satellite radar image shows that… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/mosaic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2020\/07\/ponds.png","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-20 09:36:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}