Helmholtz Infrastructure Initiative FRAM ( Fr ontiers in A rctic Marine M onitoring). The long-term observatory Hausgarten is a network of twenty stations in the Fram Strait, whose coordinates are re-visited

export freshwater. Major pathways of the export are the East Greenland Current and sea ice flux through Fram Strait. Inflow of saline water from the South is equivalent to a fresh water export. Fresh water from [...] satellite remote sensing and regional airborne sea ice thickness measurements. Oceanographic moorings in Fram Strait provide estimates of liquid fresh water transport. Once validated, the models can be used for [...] by the Transpolar Drift, which carries water and sea ice from the Siberian Shelves to exit at the Fram Strait, and the Beaufort Gyre, a large clockwise rotating gyre in the Canadian Basin (Fig 1). This

Marine Pollution
Working in the Arctic Fram Strait, scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have found microplastic throughout the water column [...] explanation for this high level of pollution. According to their findings, the two main ocean currents in Fram Strait transport the microscopically small plastic particles into the region between Greenland and

in the past, was densely covered with ice, including multiyear ice. The journey from the northern Fram Strait to the Pole only took six days to complete. To mark this momentous event, countless members

Structure (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Workpackages WP1 Variability of sea-ice thickness in the Fram Strait and ice formation processes in the source regions Compilation of sea-ice thickness information [...] sea ice on biodiversity and productivity Abundance and composition of zooplankton communities in the Fram Strait and Arctic Ocean Correlation of zooplankton population with sea-ice conditions (source, age [...] Dinter, W. von Appen, I. Morten, I. Salter, (2018), Properties of sediment trap catchment areas in Fram Strait: Results from Langrangian modeling and remote sensing, Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, doi:10

Arctic, that would be e.g. transport of ice or water through Fram Strait. AWI has collected long time series of measurements across the Fram which can be used for model validation. A thorough discussion

freshwater. Major pathways of the export are the East Greenland Current and sea ice flux through Fram Strait. Inflow of saline water from the South is equivalent to a fresh water export. Fresh water from [...] satellite remote sensing and regional airbornesea ice thickness measurements. Oceanographic moorings in Fram Strait provide estimates of liquid fresh water transport. Once validated, the models can be used for

Methodology Projects Education Team Research program Research infrastructure Observatories Ocean: FRAM FRAM-Geraete en Water: COSYNA Air: Meteorology On land: Geophysics Laboratories and facilities Stable [...] Crawler NOMAD Sediment Samplers Moorings Water Sampler Observatories LTER Observatory HAUSGARTEN FRAM Ocean Observing System Publications Data Geosciences Geophysics Research Focus Formation of the Arctic [...] Phytooptics group Cooperation Partners Team Team Projects MOSAiC MIDO RACE ARCGATE FISP GROCE UDASH FRAM Phytooptics Instruments and Methods Moorings Biooptical instruments Satellite ocean color CTD Instrument

over Svalbard during a flight of the Polar 5 aircraft on its way towards the measurement region over Fram Strait during ACLOUD. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar 6 after touch-down in Longyearbyen, Svalbard

observatory was established in the Fram Strait in 1998 to study long-term processes and diversity changes in the plankton and benthos. The Fram Strait essentially forms a connection between Arctic and Antlantic [...] integral component of the FRAM project in which a range of new technologies for sustained, (semi) autonomous observations will greatly extend the scope of ocean observations in the Fram Strait. This will facilitate [...] and has also been registered as an official LTER site. Deep Sea Group PEBCAO Zooplankton FRAM Hausgarten (FRAM) publications Literature up to 2015 Related pages Related pages Emerging Time series The