Earth's Atmosphere with Dr. Chris Cox

In this specific lesson, Dr. Chris Cox will teach you about Earth's atmosphere. You'll learn about its chemical composition, temperature structure, energy fluxes, and how MOSAiC scientists measure the atmosphere's energy budget.

This video is part of a collection called “Frozen in the Ice: Exploring the Arctic,” offered through the online course platform Coursera, about the extraordinary MOSAiC Arctic research mission that has frozen an icebreaker into the Arctic Ocean, where it will drift for 13 months (mosaic-expedition.org).

March 17, 2020

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Science Content Video 

Audience

Educators

K-12 Students

College Students

Lifelong Learners

Program Reference

Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC)

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About the Presenter

Dr. Chris Cox, a CIRES scientist from Westminster, Colorado, will serve as a research scientist aboard MOSAiC on leg 3 on the Akademik Federov icebreaker. Cox, who also works in NOAA’s Physical Sciences Division, will focus on the energetic interactions between the atmosphere and the surface that facilitate melting and freezing of sea ice. As part of the Atmosphere Team for MOSAiC, Cox has developed the meteorological and atmospheric surface flux stations (ASFS) to measure the different variables of the surface energy budget in the Arctic.

Additional Resources

Visit this page to access the “Frozen in the Ice: Exploring the Arctic” Coursera.

In this course, you’ll hear directly from more than three dozen MOSAiC scientists and Arctic experts as they summarize the core of their research, what types of data they collect during MOSAiC on the ice, under the sea, and in the air and describe why this expedition is so key for increasing our understanding of the Arctic and global climate systems.