The Arctic
Richard Thoman, Matthew L. Druckenmiller, Twila Moon, Liss M. Andreassen, Emily H. Baker, Thomas J. Ballinger, Logan T. Berner, G. Bernhard, Uma S. Bhatt, Jarle W. Bjerke, Linette Boisvert, Jason E. Box, Brian Brettschneider, David Burgess, Amy H. Butler, John Cappelen, Hanne H. Christiansen, Bertrand Decharme, Chris Derksen, Dmitry Divine, Dmitry Drozdov, Chereque A. Elias, Howard E. Epstein, S. L. Farrell, Robert S. Fausto, Xavier Fettweis, Vitali Fioletov, Bruce C. Forbes, Gerald V. Frost, Sebastian Gerland, S. J. Goetz, Jens‐Uwe Grooß, Christian Haas, Edward Hanna, Bauer Inger Hanssen, Monique M. P. D. Heijmans, Stefan Hendricks, Iolanda Ialongo, Ketil Isaksen, Chad D. Jensen, Bjørn Johnsen, Lars Kaleschke, A. L. Kholodov, Seong-Joong Kim, Jack Kohler, Niels J. Korsgaard, Zachary M. Labe, Kaisa Lakkala, Mark J. Lara, Simon H. Lee, Bryant Loomis, Bartłomiej Luks, Kari Luojus, Matthew J. Macander, Rúna Í. Magnússon, G. V. Malkova, Kenneth D. Mankoff, G. L. Manney, Walter N. Meier, Thomas L. Mote, Lawrence Mudryk, Rolf Müller, Kelsey E. Nyland, James E. Overland, Finnur Pálsson, T. Park, Chelsea Parker, Donald K. Perovich, Alek Petty, Gareth K. Phoenix, Jorge Enrique Díaz Pinzón, Robert Ricker, V. E. Romanovsky, Shawn Serbin, Gay Sheffield, N. I. Shiklomanov, Sharon L. Smith, Kathleen M. Stafford, Adam Steer, D. A. Streletskiy, Tove Svendby, Marco Tedesco, Laura Thomson, T. Thorsteinsson, Xiangshan Tian-Kunze, Mary-Louise Timmermans, Hans Tømmervik, Mark Tschudi, C. Tucker, Donald A. Walker, John E. Walsh, Muyin Wang, Melinda Webster, Adrien Wehrlé, Øyvind Winton, G. J. Wolken, Kevin R. Wood, Bert Wouters, Dedi Yang
Abstract
Disruptive environmental change in the Arctic continued in 2021. While few indicators were at record levels, the ongoing trends provide a stark illustration of an Arctic that is a very different place than the Arctic of the twentieth century.