Data Assimilation

which are a set of ocean and sea ice variables optimally combining observations and a model. The analysis fields are applied for a variety of ocean and sea ice studies in the Arctic Ocean, and also provide [...] used to synthesize model results and observed data in the Arctic Ocean. The systems have been successfully applied to North Atlantic/Arctic Ocean Sea Ice Model (NAOSIM) developed at the Alfred Wegener Institute [...] Institute (AWI). We are currently working to apply the systems to Finite-volumE Sea ice-Ocean Model (FESOM2), also developed in AWI. Contact: Dr. Hiroshi Sumata Seasonal cycle (left) and interannual variation

Fram Strait

current long-term observations Atlantic Water is the main oceanic source of heat, salt, and nutrients of the Arctic Ocean. It enters the Arctic Ocean through the Barents Sea or Fram Strait. In the eastern [...] recirculates to the western Fram Strait on timescales of several months while the rest enters the Arctic Ocean and follows a cyclonic circulation for years to decades. The AWI long-term observations in Fram [...] around 4°C since. Two anomalous warm events occurred in fall 2006 and in late winter 2012. In the deep ocean, it was also observed that the two water masses present there (the warmer Eurasian Basin Deep Water

CACOON

to the Arctic coastal-marine environment. CACOON Background Arctic rivers annually carry around 13% of all dissolved organic carbon transported globally from land to ocean, despite the Arctic Ocean making [...] Changing Arctic Carbon cycle in the cOastal Ocean Near-shore - CACOON No other region has warmed as much or as rapidly in the past decades as the Arctic. A new project, CACOON , investigates how the ecosystems [...] 1% of the Earth’s ocean volume. Arctic shelf waters are therefore dominated by terrestrial carbon pools, so that shelf ecosystems are intimately linked to freshwater supplies. Arctic ecosystems also contain

hausgarten_up_to2015.pdf

A. (2013): FRAM - FRontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring: Permanent Observations in a Gateway to the Arctic Ocean , OCEANS - Bergen, 2013 MTS/IEEE . doi: 10.1109/OCEANS-Bergen.2013.6608008 49. Soltwedel [...] Biological experiments at a long-term station in the deep Arctic Ocean using the Remotely Operated Vehicle VICTOR 6000 (Poster) , Arctic Ocean Conference, Stockholm, Schweden.-07.11.2001 . 291. Soltwedel [...] variation due to warming of the Arctic ocean , ASLO Conference, Granada, Spain, 22 February 2015 - 27 February 2015 . 6. Soltwedel, T. (2015): FRAM - FRontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring: Permanent Ob

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Polarstern longterm cruise planning

models simulating current and future changes in the Arctic Ocean. • decipher how climate change mechanisms in the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean are coupled. • assess plastic pollution in sea-ice, [...] Campaigns - Antarctic Campaigns - Arctic Expeditions 2025: Transits and Campaigns - Antarctic Campaigns - Arctic Expeditions 2026: Transits and Campaigns - Antarctic Campaigns - Arctic Expeditions 2027: Transits [...] the transition zone between the northern North Atlantic and the central Arctic Ocean, and to determine the factors controlling Arctic deep-sea biodiversity. • Permanent presence at sea, from surface to depth

Theses within Phytooptics group

pigments in the changing Arctic Ocean, Ph.D. thesis, University of Bremen, DOI: 10.26092/elib/6052. 2021 Oelker J. (2021) Suitability of atmospheric satellite sensors for ocean applicaitons . PhD Thesis [...] (2024) Marine Big Data-driven Machine Learning Based Monitoring of Phytoplankton Groups in the Arctic Ocean . Department of Physics and Engineering, University Bremen, Bremen, Germany, Bremen, 12 Sep 2024 [...] 0 Pefanis, V. (2021) Loading of coloured dissolved organic matter in the Arctic Mediterranean Sea and its effects on the ocean heat budget, Ph.D. thesis, University of Bremen, DOI: 10.26092/elib/646. 2016

LTER Observatory HAUSGARTEN

Long-Term Ecological Research in the deep Arctic Ocean The marine Arctic has been an integral part of the history of our planet over the past 130 million years and contributes significantly to the present [...] state of the atmosphere depend to a significant extent on arctic marine processes. The past decades has seen remarkable changes in the Arctic, of which we do not know whether these represent temporary [...] and biotic parameters in a transition zone between the northern North Atlantic and the central Arctic Ocean, the Alfred Wegener Institute established the LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research) observatory

Sea Ice Physics

ice influence the observed variability of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice? How do variations in melt and freeze rates impact the ocean and the atmosphere in the Arctic and Antarctic? What are the consequences [...] polar ocean due to Arctic sea ice retreat? We apply, improve, and develop various methods to study sea ice and snow processes in both hemispheres, including the interaction of atmosphere and ocean. Contact [...] are the reasons for the dramatic changes in Arctic sea ice during the last decades? Why is the development of sea ice in the Antarctic so different to the Arctic and shows strong regional differences? How

Torsten_Kanzow_AWI-Expert_UK.pdf

investigating the impact of altered ocean circulation and ocean warming on glacial calving on the coast of Greenland and on the ocean-sea ice system in the Arctic Ocean. In the past six years he has led [...] regions of the world’s oceans. He began his career by investigating deep-ocean currents in the tropical Atlantic, and completed his doctorate at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Kiel [...] led five major research expeditions along the east coast of Greenland and in the Arctic Ocean, including the third leg of the international MOSAiC expedition on the research icebreaker Polarstern in 2020

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Wandering greenhouse gas

Arctic Ocean
On the seafloor of the shallow coastal regions north of Siberia, microorganisms produce methane when they break down plant remains. If this greenhouse gas finds its way into the water, [...] these coastal waters. As a result, the gas can be transported thousands of kilometres across the Arctic Ocean and released in a completely different region months later. This phenomenon is the subject of [...] current issue of the online journal Scientific Reports. Although this interaction between methane, ocean and ice has a significant influence on climate change, to date it has not been reflected in climate