• Arctic sea ice once again shows considerable melting

      ice shrank to roughly 4.7 million square kilometres, as was determined by researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, the University of Bremen and Universität Hamburg. Though slightly larger than last

    • From River Weser to the North Sea

      litter is on the rise. A new project jointly coordinated by the University of Bayreuth and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is the first to approach the

    • Ten years of exploration with the AWI’s research aircraft Polar 5

      Anniversary
      The 1 st of October 2017 marks the ten-year anniversary since the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) research aircraft Polar 5 began service.

    • Major wind-driven ocean currents are shifting toward the poles

      wind-driven current systems in the ocean have steadily shifted toward the poles. Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), came to this conclusion after

    • Autonomous Platforms

      and 3 show the distribution of deployed buoys since 2012. Map 2 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Map 3 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Ice Ocean Dynamics

      (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Fig. 3b (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Fig. 3c (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Figure 1: Surface circulation of the Arctic Ocean (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] which mark the Atlantic origin waters (Karcher et al, 2012) (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Fig. 3d (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Figure 3: Concentration of 129 Iodine [10 7 at/l] at 240m depth [...] sea ice) freshwater content (integrated in the area in blue on the map) (Graphic: T. Kovacz, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Arctic Ocean receives freshwater by run-off from Asia north of the Himalaya. Large

    • Merged Analysis and Forecasting

      investigate the temporal variability of processes acting on the ice cover Ice Track Plot (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Example application of how IceTrack can support campaign planning: Here IceTrack was [...] (ULS) location in the Laptev Sea: comparison between observed and simulated draft. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) A novel sea ice model framework, based on the single-column sea ice model Icepack ( [...] expedition . Validation sequence for the forecasting system for the years 2018 and 2019. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The figure shows a forecast of the likelihood of encountering an ice concentration

    • Six German-Russian research groups receive three-year funding

      (RSF) have selected six further Joint Research Groups, including one with participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute.

    • AWI Helgoland’s student laboratory “OPENSEA” celebrates its 5-year anniversary

      collect and analyse samples from the mudflats. The children were supported by a small team from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

    • past ICRSS Conferences

      currently being carried out in the circumpolar regions of the world. ICRSS-2006 group shot (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 10th ICRSS 2008 (Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada) The 10 th International Circumpolar Remote [...] being carried out in the circumpolar regions and elsewhere. ICRSS-2008 conference photo (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 11th ICRSS 2010 (Cambridge, United Kingdom) The 11th International Circumpolar Remote [...] of work currently being carried out in the circumpolar regions. ICRSS-2010 group photo (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 12th ICRSS 2012 (Levi, Finland) The theme of the 12 th CRSS symposium, May 14-18 2012