• Publications

    Danilov, N. Koldunov, C.Liu, V. Mueller, D. Sidorenko and T. Jung, 2024: Eddy activity in the Arctic Ocean projected to surge in a warming world . Nature Climate Change , 14 , 156–162, doi.org/10.1038 [...] 387 , 68–73, doi.org/10.1126/science.adq7280 . Wang, Q., S. Danilov, and T. Jung, 2024: Arctic freshwater anomaly transiting to the North Atlantic delayed within a buffer zone. Nature Geosci [...] Beech, N., T. Rackow, T. Semmler, S. Danilov, Q. Wang and T. Jung, 2022: Long-term evolution of ocean eddy activity in a warming world. Nature Climate Change , 9 , 910–917, doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01478-3

  • Abstracts

    The microbial communities of the Arctic Ocean are taxonomically distinct from other oceans, suggesting vulnerability due recent climate related changes. In the Arctic, the environments that select different [...] of sea-ice on Arctic marine single-cell eukaroyte community composition, or of ocean warming in Eastern Fram Strait since the year 2000. In the future, the observation strategy for Arctic marine microbes [...] y from climate change impacts on these high-Arctic systems. Connie Lovejoy Perspectives for the Arctic. Connie Lovejoy Département de biologie, Québec Océan, Institut de biologie intégrative et des systèmes

  • MELTEX-I

    refreezing at the sea ice surface dramatically changes the energy exchange between atmosphere and ocean in the Arctic. Melt ponds play a key role in these changes, because they substantially enhance the absorption [...] albedo of Arctic summer ice from satellite optical data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 163, 153-164. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2015.03.012. Rösel, A.; Kaleschke, L., Birnbaum, G. 2012. Melt ponds on Arctic sea ice [...] early summer, when melt ponds started to form. From 9 May to 8 June 2008, we operated in the Canadian Arctic, mainly over the southern Beaufort Sea with Inuvik as airbase for Polar 5 . Sea ice conditions changed

  • MELTEX-I

    refreezing at the sea ice surface dramatically changes the energy exchange between atmosphere and ocean in the Arctic. Melt ponds play a key role in these changes, because they substantially enhance the absorption [...] albedo of Arctic summer ice from satellite optical data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 163, 153-164. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2015.03.012. Rösel, A.; Kaleschke, L., Birnbaum, G. 2012. Melt ponds on Arctic sea ice [...] early summer, when melt ponds started to form. From 9 May to 8 June 2008, we operated in the Canadian Arctic, mainly over the southern Beaufort Sea with Inuvik as airbase for Polar 5 . Sea ice conditions changed

  • results-S5POC

    Alvarez E. (2022) Toward the Synergistic Use of Ocean Colour Products to Improve the Description of Phytoplankton Productivity within the Global Ocean. ESA Ocean Carbon from Space Workshop, Online event, 14 [...] (2002-2020). ESA Ocean Carbon from Space Workshop, Online event, 14 – 18 February 2022. Poster.​ Bracher A. (2021) S5P+-I-OC : S5P+ Innovation Ocean Color - presentation (Astrid Bracher, AWI ESA Ocean Science Cluster [...] monitoring of surface phytoplankton functional types in the Atlantic Ocean. Report: 7th edition of the Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report (OSR 7). State of the Planet. Oelker J., Losa S. N., Richter

  • Passive Acoustic Monitoring - AWI OZA

    Maps of the Arctic and Antarctic with underwater sound recording sites occupied by the AWI Ocean Acoustics group since 2006. PALAOA (PerenniAL Acoustic Observatory in the Antarctic Ocean) Between 2006 [...] in the Antarctic Ocean, or “whale” in Hawaiian. attached, since 2008, to deep-sea mooring of the oceanographic Hybrid Antarctic Float Observatory (HAFOS) and the Frontiers in Arctic Marine Science (FRAM) [...] seals, fish and invertebrates between Spitsbergen and Greenland. Further moorings in the adjacent Arctic Ocean extend this array slightly to the North. MAP of FRAM moorings hosting PAM recorders an AZFPs.

  • Cooperation Partners

    DFG PHYSYN , DFG TR 172 Arctic Amplification (AC 3 ) project C03 "Feedback of ocean colour and atmospheric composition to AC 3 ", ESA S5POC ) GEOMAR-Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research (Geomar), Kiel,

  • Mobile benthic Systems

    within one year due to the self-discharge of the battery in -1.75°C bottom waters of the deep Arctic Ocean. TRAMPER can be deployed with pin-point accuracy by means of a video-controlled cabled launching [...] crawler for long-term benthic oxygen flux studies in remote deep sea ecosystems , OCEANS 2016 MTS/IEEE Monterey, doi: 10.1109/OCEANS.2016.776121.

  • ACLOUD/AFLUX

    better understand and quantify the role of clouds in the lower Arctic atmosphere. A special focus is on the amplified climate change in the Arctic. To that aim measurements during ACLOUD and AFLUX were/are [...] Airborne Observations In, Below and Above Arctic Clouds Map of the areas for aircraft operation illustration the coordination activities at Polarstern and Ny Alesund (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ACLOUD [...] research institutes (listed below) embedded in the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre TR 172: ArctiC Amplification: Climate Relevant Atmospheric and SurfaCe Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms (AC)³

  • Mobile pelagic Systems

    research with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle: Payload structure and arctic operations. OCEANS - Bergen, 2013 MTS/IEEE, doi:10.1109/OCEANS-Bergen.2013.6608043. Wulff, T., Lehmenhecker, S., Hoge, U. (2010) [...] On their way through the ocean they carry different instruments to measure several parameters from the temperature of the water to the amount of light penetrating the ocean. At the end of a mission the [...] I 115: 253-264. Wulff, U., Wulff, T. (2015). Correcting Navigation Data of Shallow-Diving AUV in Arctic. Sea Technology 56(3): 27-30. Wulff, T., Lehmenhecker, S., Bauerfeind, E., Hoge, U., Shurn, K., Klages