Content type

  • UN Climate Change Conference

    achieve the pace of climate protection required to implement the Paris Agreement.” Prof Hugues Lantuit, Head of the Permafrost Coasts Working Group at AWI “In view of the above-average warming of the Arctic [...] shortly before the start of the COP and weakened its climate targets. At the end of October, over 2,000 scientists warned the European heads of state and government in an open letter that the discussions [...] at the German Pavilion of the Federal Government. “By contributing to the discussions and showcasing BioAgora’s work through KEN-Marine, I hope to help strengthen the visibility of the ocean in the political

  • Polarstern longterm cruise planning

    scientific attention in the past. Today, the water column structure of the SO largely prevents pronounced melting of the EAIS. This state may change if the position and strength of the Antarctic Circumpolar [...] focuses on recording the history of the position of the ACC and major SO fronts, the status of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation today and in the past, as well as a range of additional hydrographic [...] series of 3D-distributions in the water column of the Arctic Ocean. The selected stations are based on locations and variables that have been observed in the past. The quasi-synoptic survey of the CAO and

  • Environment Protection Seminar

    clicking on the flag symbol. At the end of the training, you will be asked 15 multiple-choice questions about the content of the training, which you have to answer correctly (see also information in the instruction [...] Training "Environmental Protection in Antarctica" The provisions of the German "Law for the Implementation of the Environmental Protection Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty" (see www.gesetze-im-internet [...] traveling to the Antarctic Treaty area (south of 60°S) with a German permit must have sufficient knowledge of environmental protection in Antarctica and the provisions of the law. For this reason, the Alfred

  • Awards and honors

    Development (ESD) of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German UNESCO Commission. The klimafit core team includes: at AWI: Dr. Renate Treffeisen, Dr. Klaus Grosfeld, at the WWF Germany: [...] Hartmut Heinrich Award The unexpected discovery of Hartmut Heinrich has an enormous influence on the work of the section Paleoclimate Dynamics . Deep-sea sediment cores recovered from the Northeast Atlantic [...] insolation forces meltwater discharge from the ice sheets into the polar seas which subsequently enhances formation of sea ice during the winter. In the second case, growth of continental ice enhances iceberg

  • Completed Projects

    under the ERA-Net.RUS funding scheme, with partners from the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAN) and the Institute of Numerical Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences [...] partner universities. The scientific team with the PhD students in its centre aims to advance the understanding of the variability of the Arctic Ocean and the cryosphere on time scales of decades to millennia [...] 2017 funded by the Helmholtz Association over a period of three years. The project comprises eight Helmholtz Research Centres and aims to improve the representation of the components of the Earth system

  • Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems

    in the rest of the world in a climate model simulation (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Correlation of centennial temperature variations in Brussels with temperature variations in the rest of the world [...] This project will advance the state of the art in coupled climate – ice-sheet modeling, and lead to deeper understanding of the long-term impacts of climate change on the Earth system. Contact: Alexander [...] and health in the high latitudes, as well as proxy development and proxy data synthesis, along with the analysis of global interactions, are central research interests of the group. The goal is to achieve

  • Climate Sciences

    such as the icebreaker Polarstern , observatories, aircrafts, and satellites to capture the evolving dynamics of the ocean, atmosphere, sea ice, and ice sheets. At the same time, we push the boundaries [...] critical insights into the past, present, and future of our planet. In cooperation with our colleagues in the Bio- and Geosciences, our research extends to investigating the impact of climate change on marine [...] these processes – especially in the rapidly changing polar regions where the changes have far-reaching implications, such as global sea level rise – is at the heart of our research. We strive to understand

  • Permafrost Change

    comparison to the area of permafrost? What is the extend of these elements of the cryosphere – also in relation to the country of Germany? The back of the wooden tiles are revealing the result and some [...] A survey at the beginning of the event showed that the topic was new to most participants but of great interest, and also that not all of them were located in the area of Berlin (one even in Luxembourg [...] them to relate to. With the help of the resources provided by the Ralf Dahrendorf Prize, we will overcome that distance by showing interested members of the general public the broad landmasses that are

  • ICRSS

    and best practices, the presentation of new technology and further innovation, and the advancement of international co-operation in the circumpolar regions of the world. The theme of the 16th ICRSS is Convergence [...] s in the polar environments. The symposium provides a platform for the exchange of current applied research and best practices, the presentation of new technology and further innovation, and the advancement [...] advancement of international cooperation in the circumpolar regions of the world. We look to build on the more than 100 participants and the record 50% attendance by students and early career researchers at

  • Knowledge Transfer

    Yes! By using a climate model in a special way, where the winds are forced to follow the observed winds, we simulate the 'climate change signal of the day'. Every day and everywhere. Just a few days behind [...] things. This will give climate researchers the ability to directly share, compare, and evaluate their findings with each other. The data products of the sixth phase of CMIP (CMIP6, Eyring et al. 2016, GMD, [...] source of robust and reliable climate information in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report. The scenario subproject of CMIP6, ScenarioMIP, involved a total of about