sea ice covered regions in the Arctic and Antarctic oceans make satellite remote sensing the only tool that is able to obtain a full picture of sea ice conditions. The Sea Ice Physics section is actively [...] Sea Ice Remote Sensing Map of Arctic sea ice thickness (April 2015) obtained from CryoSat-2 data (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut) Contact: Dr. Stefan Hendricks The inaccessibility and sheer size of sea [...] the European Space Agency (ESA) is based on a radar altimeter that fully maps Antarctic sea ice and Arctic sea ice up to a latitude of 88°N. This coverage is unparalleled in comparison with all previous and

of light penetrating into the Arctic Ocean, enhancing sea-ice melt and affecting sea-ice and upper-ocean ecosystems. Radiation fluxes through summer sea ice in the Arctic [...] energy fluxes through Arctic sea ice Arndt and Nicolaus ( 2014, TC; doi:10.5194/tc-8-2219-2014 ) In this study, we quantify solar shortwave fluxes through sea ice for the entire Arctic during all seasons [...] of melt onset and the correct classification of ice types. Radiation fluxes through Arctic sea ice Changes in Arctic sea ice result in increasing light transmittance and absorption Nicolaus et al. ( 2012

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

Changes in the circulation freshwater between Arctic Ocean and subpolar North Atlantic In RACE we study the variability of the freshwater storage in the Arctic Ocean and the subpolar North Atlantic. We use [...] observations and model simulations of the ocean and the sea ice to understand the underlying processes. Here you find the project website . Contact: Dr. Benjamin Rabe (Phys. Oceanography) Prof. Dr. Rüdiger

key Arctic atmospheric and sea ice variables based on satellite and in-situ data sets (WP1) • Regional feedback mechanisms responsible for Arctic climate change (WP2) • Interaction between Arctic climate [...] routes (WP4) • Impact of Arctic sea ice and cyclones on biodiversity and productivity of the Arctic marine biota (WP5) WP1 will quantify the strength of climatic changes in the Arctic based on unique Russian [...] in-situ and satellite data for sea ice and ocean variables and atmospheric key parameters. WP2 will improve the regional feedbacks between the Arctic atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, and snow in a regional coupled

The Perennial Acoustic Observatory in the Antarctic Ocean—Real-Time Eavesdropping on the Antarctic Underwater Soundscape. In: Listening in the Ocean, edited by W. W. L. Au and M. O. Lammers, pp. 207-219 [...] JL, Van Opzeeland IC, Van Parijs SM, Jones J (2016). Pinniped Sounds in the Polar Oceans. In: Listening in the Ocean, edited by W. W. L. Au and M. O. Lammers, pp. 257-308, Springer New York, New York [...] 427-100.html , broadcasted in DLF and Bremen 2 June 2022: Ocean Future LAB - co-creative workshop on resilient future scenarios for our oceans April-November 2022: Wissenschaftliche Begleitung bei Vorbereitung

ultraslow mid-ocean ridge?, doi: 10.1002/grl.50329 Schlindwein et al., 2014: Seismicity of the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge system, doi: 10.1016/j.polar.2014.10.001 Schlindwein and Schmid, 2016: Mid-ocean-ridge seismicity [...] Corela et al., 2023: The effect of deep ocean currents on ocean- bottom seismometers records, doi: 10.5194/nhess-23-1433-2023 Czuba et al., 2011: Continent-ocean-transition across a trans-tensional margin [...] , 2016: Thickness of the oceanic crust, the lithosphere, and the mantle transition zone in the vicinity of the Tristan da Cunha hot spot estimated from ocean-bottom and ocean-island seismometer receiver

1126/science.adp3491 Gou, R., K. Wolf, C. Hoppe, L. Wu, G. Lohmann, 2025: The changing nature of future Arctic marine heatwaves and its potential impacts on the ecosystem. Nature Climate Change, doi.org/10 [...] Lohmann G, Boers N, Daniau AL, Oliveira RS, Campos MC, Shi X, De Oliveira PE, 2014: Slowdown of ocean circulation increases the vulnerability of northern Amazon forests. Nature Geoscience 2024. DOI: 10 [...] and M. Kucera, 2023: Plankton biogeography shows strong meridional variation in ice age to modern ocean warming. Nat. Geosci., DOI:10.1038/s41561-023-01328-7 2022 Pontes, G., A. Taschetto, A. Sen Gupta

youtube.com/channel/UCxseMj2r9jMDq-LjKzUOIVg/featured Arctic Ocean MSM93 expedition contribution to newsletter of German Science Foundation Transregio Arctic Amplification: www.ac3-tr.de/download/ne [...] kugel-klimaforschung-mit-markus-rex/tausendstel-millimeter-gross-aber-echte-giganten/85718382 Arctic Ocean MSM93 expedition highlighted in the German newspaper “Süddeutsche Zeitung” 6 Nov 2020: https :// [...] Symposium 2022 in Bonn within the German radio programme Deutschlandfunk about her presentation on "Novel ocean color information from Sentinel-5P’s high spectral resolution" in the broadcast "Forschung aktuell"

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