• Team

    remote sensing (ocean color, altimetry, infrared). But I am currently focusing more on BGC modelling in the framework of the H2020-Project COMFORT and the BMBF nuArctic projects. nuArctic investigates nutrient [...] examined the decadal variability of the carbon cycle in the Indian Ocean region. For the Ph.D. I am doing Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling for Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement in deep and bottom water formation regions [...] studied marine sciences and have worked with global ocean biogeochemistry models as well as observations in the past. I am interested in understanding ocean carbon cycling and its interactions with climate

  • Deep Sea

    specially adapted biotic community. Ice-covered seascape in the Arctic Ocean (Photo: Esther Horvath) The deep sea in the polar regions In the Arctic, living at the bottom of the sea poses unique challenges for [...] standards. For another, food is harder to come by. The central Arctic Ocean is largely covered with ice and – unlike the Antarctic’s Southern Ocean – surrounded by landmasses. Exchanges with the Atlantic and [...] than we do about the ocean depths. Yet the deep sea is not a habitat fully separated from the surface; it is already undergoing dramatic changes in response to warmer water, ocean acidification and en

  • Technology Transfer - Offers to the private sector

    enough, some of these are made public. The use in research applications is usually free. Examples: Ocean Data View, a programme to visualise large geo-referenced data files UltraMassExplorer, a browser-based [...] Quicklinks Technology transfer - From research to business Technology Transfer Office Spin-offs Ocean Data View Inventions, innovative technologies and services originate, e.g. from the following R&D [...] Alfred-Wegener-Institute is one of the few institutions worldwide that conduct research both in the Arctic and Antarctic. The expertise of AWI with research in polar regions and the operation of the required

  • COSYNA

    North Sea North off Helgoland ( Helgoland-UWO - 54° 11.700'N / 7° 52.600'E – Fig. 1) and in the Arctic Ocean in Spitzbergen ( Svalbard-UWO - 78° 55.200 / 11° 54.00 – (WGS84) - Fig. 2). The systems were developed

  • Cooperation Partners

    DFG PHYSYN , DFG TR 172 Arctic Amplification (AC 3 ) project C03 "Feedback of ocean colour and atmospheric composition to AC 3 ", ESA S5POC ) GEOMAR-Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research (Geomar), Kiel,

  • Publications

    youtube.com/channel/UCxseMj2r9jMDq-LjKzUOIVg/featured Arctic Ocean MSM93 expedition contribution to newsletter of German Science Foundation Transregio Arctic Amplification: www.ac3-tr.de/download/ne [...] kugel-klimaforschung-mit-markus-rex/tausendstel-millimeter-gross-aber-echte-giganten/85718382 Arctic Ocean MSM93 expedition highlighted in the German newspaper “Süddeutsche Zeitung” 6 Nov 2020: https :// [...] Symposium 2022 in Bonn within the German radio programme Deutschlandfunk about her presentation on "Novel ocean color information from Sentinel-5P’s high spectral resolution" in the broadcast "Forschung aktuell"

  • Christian Haas

    2020 On thin ice: The Arctic and earth's climate Find out more > DW | 05.05.2020 Polarstern sets records on Arctic climate mission Find out more > Above & Beyond, Canada's Arctic Journal | 31.12.2013 On [...] Institute for Environmental Physics at the University of Bremen. Sea Ice MOSAiC The sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic is a major component of the global climate system, and changes in its thickness and [...] depends not only on thermodynamic factors like heat in the air and water, or radiation; winds and ocean currents also play an important role by constantly moving and deforming the ice, leading to the creation

  • Lars Kaleschke

    the thickness of the Arctic sea ice is steadily declining and meltwater pools are increasingly forming in summer, covering large areas of the Arctic sea ice, both the ice and the ocean below absorb more solar [...] between the ocean and atmosphere sea ice modulates the flow of energy, kinetic force, salt, moisture and trace gases between the two components. Though our knowledge of the sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic [...] data are needed in order to validate our computer models and depict the realities of sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic as precisely as possible using computers. If we succeed in this detail work, we’ll

  • Angelika Humbert

    now flowing more rapidly: this means that they transport more ice from the land’s interior to the ocean, which in turn causes the sea level to rise. Furthermore, the surface of Greenland’s ice sheet is [...] century? Find out more > TRT World Now (Video) | 14.09.2020 Climate Crisis: Ice breaks away from Arctic's largest remaining shelf Find out more > Dialogue & Lectures Lecture | 04.03.2022 The Complex Life [...] Ice Sheets TEDx Talks Talk | 06.03.2017 How the Greenland Ice Sheet is loosing mass forced by the ocean Summit on Climate Change Policy advice

  • Comprehensive assessment of the changing Central Arctic Ocean

    l research team is now bringing back from a Polarstern expedition to the Central Arctic. After a four-month-long Arctic season, the Alfred Wegener Institute’s research icebreaker is expected to arrive