predominantly for atmospheric research and geophysics purposes, the airplane has landed on the Arctic seaice near the North Pole, and at the South Pole.
SeaIce Minimum 2017 This September, the extent of Arctic seaice shrank to roughly 4.7 million square kilometres, as was determined by researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, the University of [...] of Bremen and Universität Hamburg. Though slightly larger than last year, the minimum seaice extent 2017 is average for the past ten years and far below the numbers from 1979 to 2006. The Northeast Passage
2435 metres for nearly 60 weeks – the first long-term mission involving a crawler under the Arctic seaice. For the first 24 weeks, the robot took biogeochemical readings at various sites, just as it was [...] Good news from the Arctic On 27 August 2017, deep-sea researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) recovered the underwater robot Tramper, which
ed geo-engineering approach, both sea-ice retreat and global warming could be slowed by using millions of wind-powered pumps, drifting in the seaice, to promote ice formation during the Arctic winter [...] the journal Earth’s Future. Their verdict is sobering: though the approach could potentially put off ice-free Arctic summers for a few more decades, beyond the Arctic the massive campaign wouldn’t produce
interactions between the atmosphere, ocean and seaice, as well as on the ecosystem. Thanks to the collaboration between international experts, the one-year-long ice drift past the North Pole will take climate
for a unique long-term observatory in the partly ice-covered Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard, which they call their HAUSGARTEN. The deep-sea observatory is the first, and still the only one
Arctic SeaIce The sea-ice extent in the Arctic is nearing its annual minimum at the end of the melt season in September. Only circa 3.9 million square kilometres of the Arctic Ocean are covered by [...] by seaice any more, according to researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Bremen. This is only the second time that the annual minimum has dropped below four million square kilometres
data is particularly interesting because the underlying model, developed at the AWI, depicts the seaice and the oceans with far greater definition than conventional methods. The results are used by climate
Rising sea level How has the West Antarctic Ice Sheet changed in response to alternating warm and cold time periods? And what does it mean for the sea level – today and tomorrow? Pursuing answers to [...] (Chile) on 6 February 2017, bound for the Amundsen Sea – the region of the Antarctic currently characterised by the most massive and rapid loss of ice. In the course of the expedition, the seafloor drill
rapid climate changes in the Arctic are no longer just the domain of scientists. The shrinking seaice and collapsing permafrost coasts are now also becoming topics on the agenda of international politics