sure whether the next few days will be snowy or sunny at the North Pole: the weather forecast for the Arctic is far less reliable than for other parts of the world, where an extensive grid of automatic weather [...] predictions are important The Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) - from research to improved environmental safety. This video explains the background, methods and aims of the Year of Polar Prediction. For more [...] Jung is responsible for coordinating and implementing the Year of Polar Prediction. In this interview, he talks about how the weather and climate at the Earth’s poles is changing, how accurately weather and

The bloom of blooms 10. November 2022 One of our aims during Island Impact is to investigate the impact of iron inputs on productivity in the Southern Ocean: Helped by the long-term records in satellite [...] quick examination of the community composition suggests that a mixture including the colony forming “Phaeocystis antarctica” and all the diatom species know to form blooms in the Southern Ocean, are happily [...] biomass) of over 370 mg per square meters. These values are significantly higher than previous measurements for this area as well as those found in the most productive areas of the world’s oceans. A quick

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thousands of researchers from Germany and around the world. In the process, the Polarstern has safely covered 1.8 million nautical miles – this corresponds to almost 86 circumnavigations of the earth at [...] essential and often limit the growth of microscopic algae, phytoplankton, in the Southern Ocean. In order to describe the sources of iron and other trace elements, a very special set of instrument are being [...] Nordenskjöld Glaciers as a source of meltwater and nutrients 10. December 2022 The ice masses of the Nordenskjöld Glacier in the Cumberland Bay East Fjord tower impressively as the researchers approach it on

play the conditions and the base of the ice for the speedy ice streams and did they change their behaviour in the past? Where can we find the oldest ice, with which we can reconstruct the climate of the [...] and ends with the composition of the subsurface below the ice, both of which govern flow behaviour of ice. In the end, we hope to make conclusions about how ice masses will change in the decades to come [...] million years ago? For all of these questions observations on site are essential. This begins with the determination of the ice thickness, continues with the inference of the crystal orientation fabric

Spectrogram of 20060419-0814_PALAOA (Photo: OZA AWI) A silent ocean Southern Ocean with sea ice (Photo: AWI) The Southern Ocean is one of the last pristine areas of the world’s oceans. Only few fishing and [...] Examples of underwater sounds in the polar oceans Map of the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean with all recording positions marked in red. (Photo: OZA AWI) The sound snippets below illustrate some [...] frequently in the vicinity of Elephant Island, off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, where the 20 Hz pulse also often contains a higher frequency component around 89 Hz. Spectrogram of 20130705-

important glance into the future and at the same time one of the most central tools of climate research. The better these models reproduce the natural processes in the climate system, the more accurate and [...] Models: Images of the future Prof. Dr Thomas Jung, head of the Climate Dynamics section, spokesperson of the research programme "Changing Earth - Sustaining our Future" and Vice Director of the Alfred Wegener [...] participate in the international model comparison for the 6 th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the first time in the past three years. The results of these CMIP6 climate

decreases in the flux of planktonic foraminifera to the sediments, and short-lived, massive discharges of icebergs originating in eastern Canada. The path of the icebergs, clearly marked by the presence of ice-rafted [...] ng signal. Moreover, the 5–10,000-yr intervals between the events are inconsistent with Milankovitch orbital periodicities, raising the question of what the ultimate cause of the postulated cooling may [...] waste into the sea, then stumbled with paleoclimate in the form of basalt stone and then just researched. To honor his intuition and to highlight the significance of his insights for the work of our Section

Taking the Pulse of the Ocean Project in the frame work of the second MeerWissen calls by the GIZ The Taking the Pulse of the Ocean project is a joint project of the AWI and the Laboratory of Atmospheric [...] for the use of cost-effective sensors adapted to the needs of the coastal area of Senegal near Dakar in the upwelling system of southern Senegal, by setting up workflows from the regular use of the instruments [...] (LPAOSF) funded by the Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) under the umbrella of the MeerWissen programme.All projects are supported by the MeerWissen Secretariat and a group of scientists with

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