global sea-level rise of up to seven metres. Moreover, the tremendous amounts of meltwater produced could influence ocean currents, sparking massive changes in the climate, especially in the North Atlantic [...] accurately simulates the past, it can also project the future, paving the way for forecasts on e.g. future sea-level rise or global warming. In this way, these models provide the scientific basis for formulating [...] floodwalls and levees are costly. That’s why it’s important to be able to estimate today how much the sea level will rise, or how much the intensity of hurricanes will increase, tomorrow. Climate modeling

microseisms - formation, propagation and interaction with sea ice What does the sound of the waves in the deep sea sound like? What do storms and sea ice have to do with it? This is what we are investigating [...] on the formation of the Arctic Ocean Development of the North Atlantic Deepwater and its precursors What do we know about the development of North Atlantic Deepwater and its precursors? Follow this link

Arctic Ocean Madiba Sea Mount, south of South Africa, discovered 2013 with RV Polarstern Current-induced seabed structures at the Southern Mozambique Ridge Iceberg scours on the shelf north of Svalbard Contact

Deepwater CDW) can be observed south of the ridge. North of the ridge a westsetting flow is prevailent. Sediment drifts have been formed parallel to and north of the Agulhas Ridge, which indicate the influence [...] (DP), the Scotia Sea, and the Falkland Plateau. The arrows schematically show the present pathways of Upper Circumpolar Deepwater (UCDW), Lower Circumpolar Deepwater (LCDW), Weddell Sea Deep Water (WSDW) [...] IOR= Islas Orcadas Rise, MEB= Maurice Ewing Bank, NGP= North Georgia Passage, SRP= Shag Rock Passage. The opening of Drake Passage and the Scotia Sea enabled the exchange of water masses between the southern

Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice Sheet The Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice Sheet (SBSIS) covered not only the Svalbard Archipelago, but also large parts of the current Barents Sea. During strong glacials, it reached [...] which helps us to reconstruct past ocean currents from the iceberg drift. The Barents Sea - the ocean basin north of Scandinavia - was subaerially exposed until ca. 1 million years ago. The thick SBSIS [...] South, and Frans Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya towards east and southeast, reaching even into the Kara Sea. The thick ice mass shaped the buried landscape and left traces at many locations. Today, we are able

important ones were the Laurentide Ice Sheet on North America, the Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice Sheet on Svalbard and on the subaerially exposed Barents Sea as well as the East Siberia-Chukchi Ice Sheet. During [...] sheets reached far into the Arctic Ocean, and signs of glacial overprint can be found as far north as at the North Pole. Many studies have shown that the onset of the Northern Hemisphere glaciation started [...] interest due to their sensitive response to global warming. Melting ice sheets would cause a significant sea-level rise which, in turn, would severely threaten low-lying coastal areas. In order to better understand

warming trend in the Arctic being about three times that of the global average, is also manifested in sea-ice and the ocean. We are establishing a strong baseline of important ocean quantities in a historically [...] S. (2016)An assessment of the Arctic Ocean in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations. Part I: Sea ice and solid freshwater ,Ocean Modelling, 99 , pp. 110-132 .doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2015.12.008 , hd [...] Bauch, D. , Rutgers v. d. Loeff, M. and Rabe, B. (2012)Utility of dissolved Barium in distinguishing North American from Eurasian runoff in the Arctic Ocean ,Marine Chemistry., 132 , pp. 1-14 .doi:10.1016/j

temperatures for multiple years along the Greenwich meridian from North (left) to South (right). Vertical extent from the sea surface (top) to the sea floor (white). Fig. 8: Ocean temperatures near the ocean bottom [...] dense waters are formed by cooling and salinification (through formation of sea-ice). The dense water formed in the Weddell Sea makes a major contribution to the Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW), which fills [...] Total CO2 (NCT) and Oxygen within the Weddell Sea at the Prime Meridian. Displayed are linear trends in the Antarctic Surface Water (top) and Weddell Sea Bottom Water (WSBW, bottom). Statistically significa

upper reaches; with every high tide, additional material is washed in from the direction of the North Sea. In extreme cases, this can cause the height of the riverbed to rise by several metres in just a

five million people who live atop the permafrost. Entire sections of coastline are washed away by the sea, while elsewhere the ground collapses, which can mean massive damage to buildings and other types of [...] there do to prepare? After all, their future is on the line. But the changes underway in the High North could also spell danger for other regions around the world – because the thawing soils are releasing