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Arctic Yellow River Station
The Arctic Yellow River Station (78°55′N and 11°56′E) is located in Ny-Alesund, Spitsbergen islands. It is China’s first Arctic scientific research station established on July 28, 2004. In summer the mean temperature of the Arctic Yellow River Station is 4.3℃ and the maximum temperature is 19.6℃. In winter, the mean temperature is -10.8℃ and the minimum temperature is -35.1℃.
The station mainly supports scientific monitoring and research in many areas, such as marine ecology, terrestrial ecology, space physics, glacier mass-balance and motion, atmospheric physics and chemistry, and geographic information observation.
On October 9, 2021, the Arctic Yellow River Station was listed in the National Field Observation and Research Stations and was named as “the Arctic Yellow River Earth System National Observation and Research Station”.