Arctic Report Card
ACCAP’s Rick Thoman serves as one of three rotating editors of NOAA’s Arctic Report Card, which is issued annually since 2006. Thoman and other ACCAP researchers also author essays on topics such as surface air and ocean temperatures, and precipitation. ACCAP science communicators contribute to graphics in the report.
The Arctic Report Card provides a clear record of persistent and extraordinary warming in the North. It covers a wide variety of topics including the state of the Arctic’s atmosphere, oceans, cryosphere, and tundra, and special sections like atlantification bringing warmer, saltier waters northward, boreal species expanding northward into Arctic ecosystems, and “rivers rusting” as thawing permafrost mobilizes iron and other metals. The consistent reports serve as a trustworthy record of Arctic climate trends, and emerging changes.