Arctic Report Card 2020: New Arctic Research Facility Opens Door to Science Collaborations New Arctic Research Facility Opens Door to Science Collaborations

For almost half a century, some of the most important observations of the changing Arctic climate have been captured in a temporary structure at the northernmost tip of the United States. NOAA's Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory (BRW) is located 8 km northeast of the City of Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow) and very near the northernmost point (71.325° N, 156.625° W) of the U.S. (Fig. 1). BRW was established by NOAA in January 1973, joining observatories on Mauna Loa, Hawaii, American Samoa, and at the South Pole as foundational atmospheric research observatories spanning the length of the Pacific Ocean. The observatory's mandate was, and still is today, "to measure the necessary parameters for establishing trends of trace constituents important to climate change and of those elements that can assist in apportioning the source of changes to natural or anthropogenic sources" (Miller 1974). 2020 OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) GOMO (Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing) CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) Submitted https://doi.org/10.25923/24rn-c757 Public Domain 1876