Russia will have its own "Arctic"

The business of war rules igry18-03-2010 Russia will have its own "Arctic" before October 1, Russia will develop a national climate doctrine, but already by June 1, the government should consider creating a new space system "Arctica" for climate monitoring and promoting mineral exploration in the Arctic region. Such a commission Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting of ministers of the Security Council. By giving this order, the Russian president stressed that the Arctic region are still not available for continuous meteorological observations. By design, the space system "Arctica" is intended to monitor changes in the weather, as well as for mineral exploration in the Arctic Circle. Creating a system of "Arctic" urgent by the fact that so far Russia has not left any of its weather satellite. In addition were suspended all ground-based weather stations in the Russian Arctic. All information given to the Russian Hydrometeorology, comes from foreign geostationary satellites. And not only that the weather maps are available is not wasted. To determine the weather at high latitudes data meteorological satellites are of little use, since in Earth orbit over the equator.