Climate Sciences

such as the icebreaker Polarstern , observatories, aircrafts, and satellites to capture the evolving dynamics of the ocean, atmosphere, sea ice, and ice sheets. At the same time, we push the boundaries [...] critical insights into the past, present, and future of our planet. In cooperation with our colleagues in the Bio- and Geosciences, our research extends to investigating the impact of climate change on marine [...] these processes – especially in the rapidly changing polar regions where the changes have far-reaching implications, such as global sea level rise – is at the heart of our research. We strive to understand

Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems

in the rest of the world in a climate model simulation (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Correlation of centennial temperature variations in Brussels with temperature variations in the rest of the world [...] This project will advance the state of the art in coupled climate – ice-sheet modeling, and lead to deeper understanding of the long-term impacts of climate change on the Earth system. Contact: Alexander [...] and health in the high latitudes, as well as proxy development and proxy data synthesis, along with the analysis of global interactions, are central research interests of the group. The goal is to achieve

Completed Projects

under the ERA-Net.RUS funding scheme, with partners from the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAN) and the Institute of Numerical Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences [...] partner universities. The scientific team with the PhD students in its centre aims to advance the understanding of the variability of the Arctic Ocean and the cryosphere on time scales of decades to millennia [...] 2017 funded by the Helmholtz Association over a period of three years. The project comprises eight Helmholtz Research Centres and aims to improve the representation of the components of the Earth system

Sea4soCiety- Sargassum (2021-2024)

interest in the algae's potential for innovations in the field of the “blue bioeconomy”. The AWI research group led by Dr. Fernández-Méndez is investigating the carbon and nutrient cycles of these mass [...] to the ocean for solutions to solve the climate crisis as quickly and on this scale. Of all the Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal (OceanCDR) strategies, we will particularly investigate the potential of the [...] de/en/ ), we will quantify the potential of Sargassum for CDR in the ocean and investigate the co-benefits of this species, taking into account societal perceptions. Report on the Sea4soCiety-Sargassum-Survey