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gradient of +0.5 K/100 m approximately 100 km west of measuring site extending from north of the Fram Street to Janindicates a stable stratification. Below 750 m, the vertical profile of relative humidity

REEPON (Large Scale Reef and Pond Facility for Ecological Climate Research in Shallow Coastal Seas) FRAM (FRontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring) These proposals had been tabled at the meeting with a view [...] by Prof. Dr. H. Miller (Ice Laboratory Igloo), Prof. Dr. K. Wiltshire (REEPON) and Dr. M. Klages (FRAM). 7.4 In discussion, the following points were made: the Ice Laboratory Igloo would be an innovative [...] Denmark and the Netherlands have already expressed their interest in utilising the facilities; the FRAM proposal is a multidisciplinary Ocean Observation System, which integrates existing components (HAUSGARTEN

priority to keep the station open year round. New infrastructure (like a monitoring system in the Fram Strait or AWI-Hausgarten, the REEPON facility, and the Ice Igloo) provides excellent opportunities

profiling systems operating autonomously from ice floes and anchored systems combined with gliders in the Fram Straight. In the Antarctic the system will have a combination of profiling floats and anchored systems [...] exchanges in the Laptev Sea will improve the understanding of the involved processes. In key areas like Fram Strait observations are needed to quantify exchanges between the North Topic 1: The Changing Arctic [...] sun-photometer measurements, as well as meteorological (e. g. catabatic wind) studies over Greenland, Fram Strait and Svalbard. Polar Research Stations Neumayer Station (70°39‘S, 08°15‘W, 40 m a.s.l.) The