• Salt Marshes and Seagrass Meadows

    The Wadden Sea forms a transitional habitat between land and sea. The shallow depth and constant exchange with the adjacent North Sea create a very special geological space. The Wadden Sea Over the Course [...] nutrient inputs into the Wadden Sea. Since nutrients are usually discharged into the Wadden Sea by rivers, the recovery of seagrass meadows is limited to the northern Wadden Sea as it is far away from the major [...] Roads’ time series, the Wadden Sea Station in List makes an important contribution to the long-term observation and investigation of changes in the Wadden Sea. The Wadden Sea Ecosystem Our coastal waters

  • Coastal Futures

    framework for implementing multiple land use within the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the North Sea taking as an example the potential combination of projected offshore wind farms and offshore mariculture [...] (Mytilus edulis) and kelp (Laminaria saccharina), show promising results for mariculture in the German North Sea (see " Offshore Aquaculture Project " and " Roter Sand "). Due to the provision of fixed infrastructure [...] growing marine organisms in the open sea, but also to counterbalance the continuing scarce seed mussel supply, which influences the mussel fishery sector in the Wadden Sea. That way, the ocean areas designated

  • NWP_seaice_keeley_forweb.pptx

    Antarctica, Siberia and North America. Removes singularities on the ocean points Resolution roughly around 0.25 degree globally 4 European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Coupling sea ice in the IFS Coupling [...] a dynamic-thermodynamic sea ice model Implementation both at medium and monthly to seasonal timescales have been largely neutral for the large scale circulation The dynamic sea ice model does allow the [...] PowerPoint Presentation NWP with a thermodynamic-dynamic sea ice model Sarah Keeley & Kristian Mogensen Coupled Processes Team, ECMWF © ECMWF June 24, 2019 Persistence – not a good assumption, especially

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  • SiDe- EFFECT (2021-2026)

    on a previously unimaginable scale. One of the most obvious changes is the rapid decline in Arctic sea ice over the last two decades. This has a direct impact on Arctic microorganisms as more light is available [...] new production. In addition, ocean warming is leading to changes in the winter mixed layer in the North Atlantic, which has reduced the amount of silica entering the Arctic Ocean in recent decades. This

  • Last Glacial to modern climate variability at highest possible resolution

    dynamics and development of upper ocean temperature and stratification in the Subarctic North Pacific and its marginal seas. A major effort is the development of a detailed stratigraphic framework in order to

  • WeeklyReport-AFLUX_2019_week_1.pdf

    planning adjusted to the sea ice situation and expected weather conditions in the coming days. Thu, 21 March The first science flight was performed flying to the region about 100 km North of Svalbard. During [...] it was important to become familiar with the sea ice situation (fraction of thin ice/leads, roughness etc.) and to relate the visual impression to the sea ice maps that are available from different sources [...] forecast ranges. Nevertheless, we could carry out our next flight to the North. A pattern with legs above, in and below clouds over sea ice was flown and combined cloud radar and drop sonde measurements followed

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  • WeeklyReport-AFLUX_2019_week_2.pdf

    be performed although during complex cloud conditions over the sea ice north of Svalbard. First, a thin low cloud layer was probed north of the Whaler’s Bay polynya with no mid-level clouds above it. Further [...] Saturday 30th March. Sunday, 24th March To reach the scientific goals of our campaign we need data over sea ice in cloudy conditions but also over open water. Moreover, we are interested in the effect of clouds [...] conditions were good enough to perform a flight over both the ice free part of Fram Strait but also over sea ice, this time up to 83° N. Moreover, strong wind is helpful for the turbulence measurements since

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  • Permafrost

    for the polar regions Sea Ice Motion and Deformation Envisat ASAR image of different sea ice types (© ESA / Envisat, 2006) (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Drift and deformation of sea ice Polynias Terra [...] topic is called “ZackSAR”. Here, radar remote sensing data are evaluated for Zackenberg valley in north east Greenland. In 2013 and 2014, expeditions took place in the area. During field work, the environmental

  • Co-Use

    has so far only been analysed in theory and in smaller pilot projects in the German Bight of the North Sea. With the help of an experimental implementation of co-use, this project aims to address gaps in [...] consequences and incentives together with the most important actors. In addition, the link between sea and land under the co-use concept is to be defined practically by means of a local marketing strategy

  • Offshore Site Selection

    sustainable and multifunctional use of marine areas in heavily used oceans on the example of the North Sea Objectives: The project aims to create a multi-use road map as a tool for the future use of marine [...] multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA)-system. Model organisms are fish (turbot Scophthalmus maximus , sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax ) as fed aquaculture candidates, bivalves (mussels Mytilus edulis , oysters