Scientists at the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute have begun creating a system of Climatic and Environmental Monitoring of the Russian Arctic Seas, which is aimed at tracking the concentration of greenhouse gases that affect climate change, said the director of the institute Alexander Makarov as reported by TASS.
“The need to control greenhouse gases is related to assessing rates of global warming. In the Arctic, the climate is warming two to three times faster than anywhere else on the planet. And it is greenhouse gases, or more precisely, changes in their concentration in the atmosphere, that accelerate and intensify cyclical processes,” Makarov noted.
According to him, highly sensitive equipment is needed to monitor gas flows in the Arctic. Specialists from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute plan to expand the observation network for climate-affecting gas flows. Data will be transmitted automatically via satellites.
Theodor Lisovoy, Editor in Chief of the European bureau, Rough&Polished
