Discover more Remote sensing: A direct connection to the ice Laptev Sea: The Birthplace of Arctic Sea Ice Focus: Sea Ice Latest sea-ice maps Iceflux - young investigators Section Polar Biological Ozeanography [...] braving both the extreme cold and the high salinity. For comparison: sea-ice brine can be up to six times saltier than North Sea water. But that doesn’t seem to bother the algae: AWI biologist Ilka Peeken [...] of the SUIT net (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Links to AWI sea-ice research Sea Ice Physics Section Iceflux - young investigators Sea-ice portal

Keel Laying for New Research Ship
The Alfred Wegener Institute is setting new standards for sustainability in German maritime shipping. On 8 June 2021 the keel for the successor to the research cut

water masses from the North Atlantic into the European marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean plays a significant role in the marked decrease in sea-ice growth, especially in winter. Sea-ice physicists from the [...] growth in the Barents and Kara Seas for years. Furthermore, they demonstrate that the invasion of warm Atlantic water masses further east, at the northern edge of the Laptev Sea, can have such a long-term [...] thickness that the effects are evident a year later, when the ice has drifted towards Greenland via the North Pole and leaves the Arctic through Fram Strait. This study also includes data from the MOSAiC expedition

Claudia Wekerle Snapshots of relative vorticity (upper) in the Beaufort Sea and (bottom) north of Severnaya Zemlya (SZ) and Laptev Sea (LS). (Graphic: Qiang Wang, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ESM Advanced Earth [...] warming and sea level rise. Alexey Androsov | Sergey Danilov | Jens Schröter SSIP Seamless Sea Ice Prediction The BMBF Young Investigator Group SSIP (2017—2022) works towards advancing sea-ice prediction [...] es because the changes taking place in the Arctic due to climate change — the retreat of sea ice, warming seas and a warming atmosphere — have the potential to influence weather and climate in the mid

20-150 cylindrical North Sea / Helgoland Coscinodiscus granii F/2 15 50 40-200 cylindrical North Sea / Helgoland Coscinodiscus wailesii (2x) F/2 15 50 250-500 cylindrical North Sea / Helgoland Thalassiosira [...] 15 50 40-250 elliptic / cylinder - chains North Sea / Helgoland Achnanthes taeniata F/2 15 50 60 elliptic / cylinder - connected to ribbon-like bands North Sea / Helgoland Mediopyxis helysia F/2 15 50 85-125 [...] elliptic / cylinder - chains North Sea / Helgoland Skeletonema costatum F/2 15 100 5 cylindrical - chains Eucampia groenlandica K + Si 4 10 40 cylindrical - chains Arctic / Beaufort Sea Helicotheca sp. K + Si

Wadden Sea Station Sylt
The AWI’s new experimental facility on Sylt makes it possible to simulate the effects of climate change on coastal ecosystems.

most important ones were the Laurentide Ice Sheet (North America), the Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice Sheet (on Svalbard and on the subaerially exposed Barents Sea) as well as the East Siberia-Chukchi Ice Sheet [...] sheets reached far into the Arctic Ocean, and signs of glacial overprint can be found as far north as at the North Pole. Many studies have shown that the onset of the Northern Hemisphere glaciation started [...] interest due to their sensitive response to global warming. Melting ice sheets would cause a significant sea-level rise which, in turn, would severely threaten low-lying coastal areas. In order to better understand

North Sea
How does the North Sea bind, cycle and store carbon dioxide (CO2) in form of particulate organic matter on the seafloor, and how are human activities and climate change affecting this ecosystem

and environmental variability inferred from terrigenous sediment records in China and the North Pacific/Bering Sea. Universität Potsdam and Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meere

between both methods. 2016 - 2019 North Sea Pilot Pilot study in collaboration with BioConsult Holstein. Deployment of an IcLIsten Recorder in the German North Sea, southwest of the Doggerbank from October [...] System) A HAFOS deep-sea mooring consists of a long rope, up to several thousand meters, extending from the sea floor, where it is attached to an anchor weight, to some 200m below the sea surface, where it [...] to deep-sea mooring of the oceanographic Hybrid Antarctic Float Observatory (HAFOS) and the Frontiers in Arctic Marine Science (FRAM) observatory, which are distributed across the Weddell Sea and Fram