SOME RESULTS OF THE TRANSARCTICA-2019 EXPEDITION
Climate change in the Arctic has been occurring faster in recent decades than in any other region of the world. At the same time nowadays the scientific activity of Russia in the high latitudes of the Arctic decreased: the number of inhabited Arctic hard-to-reach stations reduced, the program of the state monitoring of the natural environment of the Russian Arctic seas was terminated, in 2013 due to the decrease in the ice cover and the impossibility to create year-round drifting stations the program of work of drifting stations "North Pole" was curtailed. The TRANSARCTICA-2019 project organized by Rosgidromet is a renewal and development of the high-latitude Arctic research programs implemented by Rosgidromet organizations on the basis of the “North Pole” drifting stations, sea and air expeditions.