multidisciplinary investigations in the atmosphere, the water column and at the seafloor of the ArcticOcean. [...] the early evening on the 13th June 2016 we set sail for the long passage from Bremerhaven to the Arctic. We, that is 45 crew members and a total of 51 scientists, engineers, technicians and students with
towards Spitsbergen, to use newly developed equipment in the ArcticOcean. Autonomous instruments on the seabed, in the water column and in the air will complement the long-term measurements of the deep-sea research [...] RV Polarstern starts the Arctic season Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) are setting out with the research vessel Polarstern towards [...] research group. In this way researchers can analyse the climatic changes in the Arctic and their impact on the fauna in the future with higher temporal and spatial resolution.
Arctic sea ice Sea ice physicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), are anticipating that the sea ice cover in the ArcticOcean this summer may [...] after evaluating current satellite data about the thickness of the ice cover. The data show that the arctic sea ice was already extraordinarily thin in the summer of 2015. Comparably little new ice formed
into the climate history of the ArcticOcean. Using unique sediment samples from the Lomonosov Ridge, the researchers found that six to ten million years ago the central Arctic was completely ice-free during [...] winter, however, the ocean was covered by sea ice of variable extent, the scientists explain in the current issue of the journal Nature Communications. These new findings from the Arctic region provide new
Nature Scientific Reports The ice-covered ArcticOcean is a more important factor concerning the concentration of the greenhouse gas methane in the atmosphere than previously assumed. Experts from the [...] Research (AWI) report on the newly discovered interactions between the atmosphere, sea ice and the ocean in a recent online study in the journal Nature’s Scientific Reports.
have now analysed. Their most important finding: even a short-term influx of warm water into the ArcticOcean would suffice to fundamentally impact the local symbiotic communities, from the water’s surface [...] Climate Change The warming of arctic waters in the wake of climate change is likely to produce radical changes in the marine habitats of the High North. This is indicated by data from long-term observations
and Technology, and the PEBCAO Group (Phytoplankton Ecology and Biogeochemistry in the Changing ArcticOcean) at AWI and the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group SEAPUMP (Seasonal and regional food web i
PS93.2 Weekly Report No. 1 | 21 until 26 July 2015 On June 21 st , 46 scientists, engineers, technicians, and students coming from 10 nations embarked in sunny Tromsø to participate in the second l
br>How do you successfully pilot a remote-controlled helicopter in the remote expanses of the ArcticOcean when the compass can’t provide reliable positioning data? Engineers on board the Alfred Wegener
sail for a six week expedition to the Central ArcticOcean initiated by “ART”. ART, in this case, does not stand for artistry but is the abbreviation for Arctic in Rapid Transition, an international research [...] research network established by early career scientists working in the Arctic.