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Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Cover of the Speical Issue

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Featured on the cover is China's first homemade icebreaker (Xuelong 2, left-hand vessel), which was designed to break 1.5-m-thick ice and 0.2-m-thick snow at a speed of 2-3 knots. It completed its testing by breaking through the shelf ice forwardly and backwardly near the Chinese station Zhongshan during the 36th Antarctic expedition. The icebreaker Xuelong (right-hand vessel) also joined this expedition, marking the first time for two Chinese icebreakers to have worked together and setting a new milestone for China's polar research.

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Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

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