• Triaxus

    constant distance from the surface (e.g. underside of sea ice) or bottom. AWI has developed a “depressor” that allows operation in medium-severity sea ice conditions. It can also be deflected horizontally [...] with light to moderate sea ice cover. It was used for the first time during the Polarstern PS131 expedition and allowed the collection of valuable data in the marginal ice zone north of Svalbard. Further

  • Publications, Contributions & Outreach Activities - AWI OZA

    Debusschere, E. (2024): Revised clusters of annotated unknown sounds in the Belgian part of the North sea. Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 5, 1384562. DOI: doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2024.1384562 Parcerisas [...] in the Weddell Sea. Endangered Species Research, 30:239-253. DOI: doi.org/10.3354/esr00739 . 2015 Menze S, Zitterbart D , Van Opzeeland IC, Boebel O (2016). The influence of sea ice, wind speed [...] Van Opzeeland, I., Eriksson B.K. (2025): The biological soundscape of temperate reefs in the Wadden sea. Sci Rep 15, 9216. DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-92955-0 Wöhle, S., Thomisch, K., Burkhardt

  • Results

    study sites (Alaska North Slope, Western Alaska, Central Yakutia, Kolyma Lowland) in the northern permafrost zone from 1999 to 2014. Regional patterns of lake area change on the Alaska North Slope (−0.69%) [...] two thermokarst-affected yedoma landscapes – on Sobo-Sise Island and on Bykovsky Peninsula in the north of eastern Siberia. Soil cores up to 3 m depth were collected along geomorphic gradients and analysed [...] permafrost region. Link to journal Yedoma Ice Complex of the Buor Khaya Peninsula (southern Laptev Sea) Minimum, mean (red), and maximum ground temperatures based on almost 3 years continuous measurements

  • Awards

    2023 (3rd place). The image is acquired with the MACS airborne system over Nioghalvfjedersbræ in North-East Greenland showing a supraglacial lake that has drained. The dark colors show sediments like dust [...] Richardson Medal for its academic and leadership activities in the design and production of future sea-level projections. The AWI ISMIP6 members are Thomas Kleiner and Angelika Humbert, who contributed

  • Climate modelling

    global sea-level rise of up to seven metres. Moreover, the tremendous amounts of meltwater produced could influence ocean currents, sparking massive changes in the climate, especially in the North Atlantic [...] accurately simulates the past, it can also project the future, paving the way for forecasts on e.g. future sea-level rise or global warming. In this way, these models provide the scientific basis for formulating [...] floodwalls and levees are costly. That’s why it’s important to be able to estimate today how much the sea level will rise, or how much the intensity of hurricanes will increase, tomorrow. Climate modeling

  • Bremerhaven

    focus of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven is polar research and the exploration of the sea. Scientists of different disciplines work together multidisciplinary to investigate the climate, biosystems [...] (“Leherheide Ost”), 507 (“Spaden”), 508 (‘Leherheide’), 509 (“Imsum”) and the Moonliner ML heading north. Further information can be found here: AWI Guest House Bremerhaven Contact General questions via

  • SynopSys

    Linkages between Arctic and mid-Latitude weather and climate: unraveling the impact of changing sea ice and sea surface temperatures, Polar-amplification-MIP (PAMIP) Virtual workshop, online, 30 March 2021 [...] Linkages between Arctic and Mid-Latitude Weather and Climate: Unraveling the Impact of Changing Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperatures, EMS Annual Meeting 2021, online, 5-9 September 2021. Arosio, C., Rozanov [...] Agenda Wednesday Introduction and meeting logistics A case study of the mid-November 2019 cyclone north of Greenland during MOSAiC (Cheng) Quality assessment of Arctic satellite ozone data and the impact

  • Permafrost

    the past few decades – due to the reduced sea-ice cover on the Arctic Ocean in summer, to higher water and air temperatures, and to rising sea levels. Less sea ice means e.g. that winds produce larger waves [...] in the Arctic is insulated by water and sea ice, one might assume there was no permafrost there. But guess again: at the bottom of certain shallow coastal seas, the ground is permanently frozen. This type [...] there was so much water frozen in the massive inland ice sheets of Scandinavia and North America that in some places, the sea level was 120 metres lower than today. Where now we see ocean waves, there was

  • Publications

    Composition, assimilation and degradation of Phaeocystis globose-derived fatty acids in the North Sea . Journal of Sea Research . 50 (4). 271-283 Paper - Hamm, C. (2003): Kieselalgenschalen – Spielerei oder [...] Dubischar, C.D., Pakhomov, E.A., von Harbou, L., Hunt, B.P.V., Bathmann, U.V. (2011): Salps in the Lazarev Sea, Southern Ocean: II. Biochemical composition and potential prey value . Marine Biology . 159 (1). 15-24 [...] Dubischar, C.D., Pakhomov, E.A., Hunt, B.P.V., Hagen, W., Bathmann, U.V. (2011): Salps in the Lazarev Sea, Southern Ocean: I. Feeding Dynamics . Marine Biology . 158. 2009-2026 2000-2009 Chapter - Hamm, C

  • EnviSim4Mare

    units used for the test bodies include two spar buoys moored in the Nordergründe area (southern North Sea, northeast of the Nordergründe wind farm), a test station for material managed by the University