Concerns over future of joint Russian-American weather station
The future of a climate change monitoring facility in the Arctic run jointly by Russia and the United States is under threat following tensions between the nations.
The Hydrometeorological Observatory was developed through a partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in America, the Finnish Meteorological Institute, and the Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet).
Opened less than five years ago in Tiksi, in the Russian Far East, it was the first major polar weather station to be built through such multi-national cooperation. It was installed with state-of-the-art equipment to take long-term environmental measurements, with the data made freely available to the international community.
But with sanctions between the West and Russia following the Ukraine crisis, the future of the facility is now in question.
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