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

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

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

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

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Research Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 17 November 2014 - 21 November 2014 . 8. Schewe, I. , FRAM-Konsortium (2014): FRAM: A multidisciplinary observatory in the North Atlantic - Arctic Ocean transition zone [...] HAUSGARTEN (Fram Strait) , Deep Sea Research I, 58 (11), pp. 1069-1083 . doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2011.08.002 94. Kraft, A. (2010): Amphipods observed in sediment trap samples in the eastern Fram Strait (Arctic [...] Somavilla, R. , Bauerfeind, E. and Beszczynska-Möller, A. (2015): Exchange of warming deep waters across Fram Strait , Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 103 , pp. 86-100 . 2. Soltwedel,

flow over Fram Strait during cold-air outbreaks The model METRAS was applied to simulate different days of the aircraft campaign covering a domain of 320 x 450 km2 in the northern part of Fram Strait (Figure [...] Svalbard campaign The field observations were planned on the basis of earlier investigations in the Fram Strait region (Figure 1). Three different operations were conducted. First, ground based measurements [...] attempts were based on data of an aircraft campaign which was carried out in the environment of Svalbard (Fram Strait and Storefjord). The means for the model investigations are the three-dimensional non-hydrostatic

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At 8:00 am the embarkment of scientists starts. As Polarstern cannot enter the harbor pier directly, people have to use the Zodiac (Fig.1).

the marine habitats of the High North. This is indicated by data from long-term observations in the Fram Strait, which researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) have now analysed. Their most important