• Observing systems

    and technologies Cross-section across Fram Strait with temperature from CTD sections in summer along 78°50'N. The different moorings and instruments of AWI's FRAM mooring array in West Spitsbergen Current [...] icebreakers or airplanes. AWI has strongly contributed to this effort by developing and maintaining the FRAM and MIDO infrastructure. We also use a large number of moorings which are anchored to the sea floor

  • Meltwater influences ecosystems in the Arctic Ocean

    Arctic Ocean
    In the summer months, sea ice from the Arctic drifts through Fram Strait into the Atlantic. Thanks to meltwater, a stable layer forms around the drifting ice atop the more salty seawater [...] as a team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now determined with the aid of the FRAM ocean observation system. Their findings have just been published in the journal Nature Communications

  • Working in Hausgarten

    Helmholtz Infrastructure Initiative FRAM ( Fr ontiers in A rctic Marine M onitoring). The long-term observatory Hausgarten is a network of twenty stations in the Fram Strait, whose coordinates are re-visited

  • Observatories

    Under water FRAM COSYNA ACROSS Air Meteorology Earth Geophysics

  • Arctic plankton ecology and related sedimentary flux

    association with PEBCAO GROUP LTER HAUSGARTEN FRAM Investigations since 1991 Investigations since 1991 Phyto- and Protozooplankton Protist plankton in FRAM strait surface water: top left: a diatom ( Th [...] have been taken and analysed and more will be taken in the future mainly as part of projects such as FRAM, LTER HAUSGARTEN, PEBCAO in different regions of the Arctic Ocean. The main goal of our arctic research [...] a 100 m water column, is stated for analysis between 1991 and 2013, during summer months. While in FRAM strait and on the arctic shelves, a relatively high proportion of biomass was being observed, the

  • in-situ

    2 , Fram Strait, Bremerhaven-Tromsö; 6 Jun-3 Jul 2014 SHIVASonne SO235 (OASIS-2), Indic Ocean, Port Luis (Mauritius) to Male (Malediven), Jul to Aug 2014 RV Polarstern, ARK XXIX-2.2 (PS93.2), Fram Strait [...] Polarstern, PS99, Fram Strait, Bremerhaven to Tromsö, Jun-Jul 2016 RV Polarstern, PS103, Atlantic Southern Ocean, Capetown to Punta Arenas, Dec 2016-Feb 2017 RV Polarstern, PS107, Fram Strait, Tromsö to [...] 2019 RV Polarstern, PS121, Fram Strait, Bremerhaven to Tromsö, Aug-Sep 2019 RV Kormoran, BS1, Lake Constance, Langenargen to Langenargen, Mar 2020 RV Maria S. Merian, MSM 93, Fram Strait, Bremerhaven to

  • Cooperation Partners

    Technical University of Denmark , Charlottenlund, Denmark ( FRAM , PhD R. Goncalves Araujo ) Norwegian Polar Institute , Tromsö, Norway ( FRAM , PhD R. Goncalves Araujo ) ACRI-ST , Sophia Antippolis, Fr [...] Geesthacht (HZG), Center for Materials and Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany ( OCEANET , ACENMAP , FRAM ) Institute of Marine Sciences, Mediterranean Marine and Environmental Research Centre (ICM, CSIC)

  • Long-term observations in the Arctic Ocean

    @ awi.de Fram Strait / West Spitsbergen Atlantic Water is the main oceanic source of heat, salt, and nutrients of the Arctic Ocean. It enters the Arctic Ocean through the Barents Sea or Fram Strait. In [...] systems in addition to icebreaker-based surveys. Our focus areas are the boundary current from the Fram Strait to the Siberian Arctic and the upper Arctic basin. There is a strong link between the variability [...] (2015)Circulation and transformation of Atlantic water in the Eurasian Basin and the contribution of the Fram Strait inflow branch to the Arctic Ocean heat budget ,Progress in Oceanography, 132 , pp. 128-152

  • Research

    scenarios. FRAM operations beneath the ice (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/FRAM/Sabine Lüdeling) FRAM - Our Work group is also involved in the context of the Arctic long-term observatory FRAM (Frontiers [...] and temporal resolution in the future. The foundation of the FRAM observatory is the preexisting long-term observatory 'Hausgarten' in the Fram Strait, which connects the Arctic and the Atlantic Ocean. Different

  • With high-tech in the deep sea

    operating in our study area, i.e. the LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research) Observatory HAUSGARTEN in Fram Strait between Greenland and the Svalbard archipelago.