Life in and underneath sea ice

to the North Sea brown shrimp and is considered a staple for the penguins, seals and whales of the Southern Ocean. As such, its role in the waters of the Antarctic is just as central as that of the polar [...] else in the world, in the waters of the Arctic and Antarctic there are algae that float freely in the water as phytoplankton, but as long as the water is covered by a layer of ice, they lack the light they [...] supply the creatures of the deep sea with food. (Diagram: ArcCoML) Surviving in the twilight But regardless of whether or not the disappearing ice will mean new challenges for the polar cod, the most central

News

climate change and climate protection. Against the background of possible tipping elements in the next world climate report of the IPCC, the work of the PermaRisk project was also reported here: www [...] d Prediction for the Usability of IceRoads" in Fairbanks (USA). The aim of the workshop was to establish contacts with potential future users, to inform about the current state of the possibilities and [...] March The second workshop of the PermaRisk project organized by Moritz Langer and hosted by the Geography Department of the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Main objectives of the workshop were the impacts

MarGate

support of the construction company HC Hagemann Hamburg, Germany) to study the effects of artificial breakwaters on the shallow water fish and macro-invertebrate community. Since summer 2012, the MarGate [...] from everywhere of the world to control and manage even complex sensor units fully remotely. As basic hydrographical parameters from the area, the AWI operates multiple sensor systems for the main abiotic [...] RESTORE - Restoration of the stocks of the European oyster (Ostrea edulis) in the German North Sea. 2017 - ongoing ( NIOZ & AWI & Jericho NEXT / COSYNA ) ReMoBiB - Real time Monitoring of Bivalve Behavior.

AWI_Factsheet_Klima_Europa_english.pdf

increased occurrence of cold winters in Europe at the same time give rise to the question as to whether there is a causal connection. Furthermore, there is the question of whether the occurrence of cold winters [...] reduction of the temperature difference between the low and high latitudes – the main forcing factor for atmospheric wind systems. The retreat of the sea ice edge to the north also has an influence on the main [...] (sea ice minimum at the end of summer) has also declined by 50% since 1979. • The past 6 summers were the summers with the lowest extent of sea ice since the beginning of satellite observations. Projections

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UN_Manual_of_Tests_and_Criteria.pdf

facilitate the use of the Manual in the context of the GHS had been completed, the Committee considered that the reference to the "Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods" in the title of the Manual [...] is then cut off. The fusehead is then fixed onto the terminals of the firing plug by means of the brass contacts such that the tip of the fusehead is 13 mm above the surface of the firing plug. A 13 mm [...] length of thin wire tightly round the sheathing and rubber tubing. The leads are then fixed onto the terminals of the firing plug such that the tip of the fusehead is 13 mm above the surface of the firing

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MeerWissenProjekt PULSE

Taking the Pulse of the Ocean Project in the frame work of the second MeerWissen calls by the GIZ The Taking the Pulse of the Ocean project is a joint project of the AWI and the Laboratory of Atmospheric [...] for the use of cost-effective sensors adapted to the needs of the coastal area of Senegal near Dakar in the upwelling system of southern Senegal, by setting up workflows from the regular use of the instruments [...] (LPAOSF) funded by the Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) under the umbrella of the MeerWissen programme.All projects are supported by the MeerWissen Secretariat and a group of scientists with

Ice really is a hot commodity

hardly bend at all. “In the lower section of the ice column, the distortion will be more apparent. Just how much depends on the extent to which the total shift towards the ocean is due to basal slippage [...] investigate the microstructure of the ice. “When ice flows, it becomes distorted, leaving marks in the microstructure – for example, the grain boundaries shift, the crystal axes rotate, or we find the remains [...] part of the EastGRIP project, we’re drilling through a fast-flowing ice stream for the first time. Last summer we prepared everything we needed for the camp and drilled through the firn to a depth of 100

Minutes_32nd_SAB_meeting.pdf

openly; the first part of PACES outlines the strategic significance of the programme and the major scientific milestones of each programme Topics. The second part provides 4 of 14 Minutes of the 32 nd meeting [...] respectively. 2 of 14 Minutes of the 32 nd meeting of the AWI Scientific Advisory Board 3.2. The meeting noted the document SAB 11(1)/3/2 on the current composition and membership of SAB, and the SAB members [...] incorporated in the new programme under the work packages in which they will be used, and also reflected in the description of the profile and competence of the partners in the second part of the new programme

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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 [...] environmental conditions in the polar regions. Since the time span covered by direct observations is short, the analysis of long-term changes requires, on the one hand, the use of indirect proxy data extracted [...] as well as the analysis of global interactions, is a central research interest of the group. In this way, a better understanding of the polar continental areas and their interactions with the global Earth

radiocarbon-in-global-tropospheric-carbon-dioxide.pdf

carbon signal has levelled off, and the anthropogenic input of radiocarbon-free fossil CO2 into the atmosphere has become the dominant driver of the decrease of the 14C/C ratio in global atmospheric CO2 [...] with the atmosphere, namely the ocean and the terrestrial biosphere. According to Levin et al. (2010: Figure 7) the largest net uptake of bomb 14C by the world oceans occurred in the 1970s and was about [...] Δ14C-CO2 IN THE TROPOSPHERE Because the bulk of the fossil CO2 emissions are released in the NH, observed CO2 concentrations in the Northern are higher than in the Southern Hemisphere (Dlugokencky et al

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