will subsequently gather vital data at the Filchner-Rønne Ice Shelf in the southern part of the Weddell Sea, which is permanently covered by seaice, in order to examine the melt rates of the Antarctic glaciers
Since our plane had to be de-iced and then re-fueled twice, we started our flight to South Africa with a 3-hour delay. Between the Bavarian slush and the Antarctic seaice, we enjoy a short warm-up period
e that the deep South Pacific was strongly stratified during the last ice age, and could thus have facilitated long-term, deep-sea storage of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2). The study, which has [...] discovered important evidence that the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels at the end of the last ice age was triggered by changes in the Antarctic Ocean. The researchers from the University of Oldenburg's [...] academic journal Science, also indicates that in the course of the warming following the end of the last ice age the mixing of the deep water masses increased, releasing stored CO2 and enhancing global warming
remains. If this greenhouse gas finds its way into the water, it can also become trapped in the seaice that forms in these coastal waters. As a result, the gas can be transported thousands of kilometres [...] issue of the online journal Scientific Reports. Although this interaction between methane, ocean and ice has a significant influence on climate change, to date it has not been reflected in climate models
regarding the weather and, in addition to our scientific endeavors, spent some wonderful sunny days in the ice around Joinville Island and the Peninsula.
2018 We have now entered the last phase of our expedition. After spending a week surrounded by sea- and glacier ice south of the West Antarctic Peninsula we have arrived back at Elephant Island, where we will
home to large quantities of krill and salps, ready to spawn. Thanks to warmer water temperatures, the ice formation began later in the year, as a result of which single-celled algae, the chief food source [...] on Monday 11 June 2018, the ship returns to its homeport, Bremerhaven, after nearly six months at sea.
climate assessment known as the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE), and are published today in Nature . It is the most complete picture of Antarctic ice sheet change to date - 84 scientists
PS115/2 Weekly Report No. 4 | 24.09. – 30.09.18 Monday (24 Sep). A new week begins – quite similar to the last one. For the next three to four days we have to listen to the “music of the geophysici