• InnoLab for Arctic Research

    the impact of the Arctic on global climate. In addition to this major campaign, numerous field work activities take place every year in the mainland Arctic and in the adjacent Arctic Ocean. The coast plays [...] drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate ). From fall 2019 to fall 2020, the German research icebreaker POLARSTERN drifted frozen through the Arctic Ocean. The data collected will be valuable [...] Ecological processes in the terrestrial Arctic: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Herzschuh • Permafrost processes in the Arctic: Prof. Dr. Guido Grosse • Atmospheric processes in the Arctic: Prof. Dr. Markus Rex AWI Research

  • Gesine Mollenhauer

    analyses is to determine how much carbon the ocean removed from the atmosphere and stored in its depths in the past. The permanently frozen soils of the Arctic store tremendous amounts of carbon in the form [...] not consumed by marine animals, including dead marine microorganisms, material transported to the oceans by rivers –the particles that trickle down are deposited layer by layer at depth. Ultimately, a unique [...] deposited on the seafloor, leaving clues that enable the AWI geoscientists not only to reconstruct the Arctic’s climate history, but also to understand the role of thawing permafrost in past climate changes.

  • Palaeo-ice sheet dynamics

    sea levels are the two most important cornerstones. We conduct marine geological research in the Arctic and Antarctic to more precisely define the inadequately known advance and retreat behavior of the [...] contributes to better reconstructing the history of global ice sheets and evaluating their influence on ocean circulation and sea level variations. As a result, models for future ice sheet behavior are then to

  • PETA-CARB in the Media

    research in Arctic. 2015-11-27 On Arctic Dispatch News there is an article about our yedoma erosion study: "Speedily eroding North Slope river bluff offers window into ice age past" 2015-11-07 On Arctic Dispatch [...] contribution by rbb Wissenszeit: "Children ask questions" on the subject of "Climate change in the Arctic" , some PETA CARB members can be seen and heard. 2018-10-20 Based on an interview with PETA-CARB [...] Pole (in German only) 2018-09-06 Ingmar, Guido and other colleagues are authors of a guest post "How Arctic lakes accelerate permafrost carbon losses" in the science blog "CarbonBrief". 2018-09-05 A PNN newspaper

  • Nutrient Chemistry of the Arctic Ocean

    AWI scientist Sinhué Torres-Valdés observed the nutrient chemistry of the Arctic Ocean on an expedition as part of the PEANUTS project (Primary production driven by Escalating Arctic NUTrient fluxeS). The SCRIPPS Institution of Oceanography led the expedition in 2018. The results have now been published in a paper in the journal Nature Communications. The PEANUTS project is funded by the Changing Arctic Ocean Program (CAO).

  • 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

  • Arctic_en

    study of Arctic Ocean surface sediments (Fig. 2; Xiao et al., 2015 ). During the last years, a large number of IP 25 /PIP 25 studies have been carried out to reconstruct the late Quaternary Arctic sea-ice [...] Polar sea ice variability - Arctic Our ability to quantitatively reconstruct Arctic paleo-sea-ice distributions has been greatly improved by a novel biomarker approach which is based on the determination [...] SeaIce4). In order to fully establish the IP 25 approach as key proxy for the reconstruction of past Arctic Ocean sea-ice conditions, however, more ground-truth data related to the synthesis, diagenesis, and

  • Heat from Below: How the Ocean is Wearing Down the Arctic Sea Ice

    Arctic Ocean
    The influx of warmer water masses from the North Atlantic into the European marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean plays a significant role in the marked decrease in sea-ice growth, especially [...] evident a year later, when the ice has drifted towards Greenland via the North Pole and leaves the Arctic through Fram Strait. This study also includes data from the MOSAiC expedition.

  • RV Heincke expedition ends successfully

    funded by JPI Oceans and will create new knowledge and improve our mechanistic understanding of the sources, transport, occurrence, and fate of small microplastics from European waters to the Arctic. The consortium