Scientific concept of PAICEX project |
PAICEX (PanArctic Ice Camp Expedition) is the Science Project (www.paicex.ru) to investigate the relationships among physical, chemical and biological processes in the Central Arctic Ocean and represents the most complex interdisciplinary study ever undertaken in the Arctic. In April 2007, in a frame of PAICEX program as a component of the Russian IPY Science Plan, 2007-2008, there was planned to organize investigations at the meso-scale polygon in the vicinity of the North Pole to carry out physical, chemical and biological measurements of the Transarctic sea ice out-flow (e.g. transport of water mass, snow/ice thickness, nutrients, contaminants and biological tracers). Second expedition in frame of the PAICEX project? was planned during March-April 2008. Scientific concept of PAICEX is to show:
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