several decades of experience in ocean simulation and earned an international reputation for developing the global ocean/sea-ice model FESOM, which doesn’t divide the ocean’s surface into regular quadrilaterals [...] makes it possible to model specific ocean regions – those where deep water forms, or those with an abundance of eddies, like the Gulf Stream and the Southern Ocean – in impressive detail. At the same time [...] 340 KB Media Phys.org | 25.12.2019 Can Arctic 'ice management' combat climate change? Find out more > Euronews Green | 22.11.2019 Walking on thin ice in the Arctic? Find out more > Dialogue & Lectures Policy

Arctic Ocean
The influx of warmer water masses from the North Atlantic into the European marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean plays a significant role in the marked decrease in sea-ice growth, especially [...] evident a year later, when the ice has drifted towards Greenland via the North Pole and leaves the Arctic through Fram Strait. This study also includes data from the MOSAiC expedition.

Flores, marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Biodiversity Arctic Ocean Life in the Polar Sea The sea-ice regions of the Arctic and Antarctic are among the most rapidly changing habitats on Earth [...] Understand the Warming Arctic Find out more > Dialogue & Lectures Webinar | 28.05.2020 ARICE, The Ice and The Fish: An Arctic Expedition APECS, ARICE Science Lecture | 31.01.2020 Arctic Sea Ice Ecology MOSAiC [...] Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP) of the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) initiative of the Arctic Council National representative

Arctic Ocean
More melt water is entering the Artic Ocean from the glaciers due to climbing temperatures. In addition, the rivers are carrying large amounts of sediment from thawing permafrost. How the [...] the Arctic Ocean will react to such changes is a very big question, which is concerning scientists around the world. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have now published, together with int

ice dynamics - Arctic climate and ocean dynamics - Earth system modelling - Terrestrial Arctic ecosystems and permafrost Biosciences: - Marine, coastal and shelf sea systems - Arctic ocean ecology and impacts

Biodiversity
Massive sponge gardens thrive on top of seamounts in the Central Arctic Ocean, one of the most oligotrophic seas on Earth. They appear to feed on the remnants of an extinct fauna. Micr [...] Communications . They stress the need for a better understanding of the diversity and uniqueness of Arctic ecosystems in the light of global and local change.

analyses is to determine how much carbon the ocean removed from the atmosphere and stored in its depths in the past. The permanently frozen soils of the Arctic store tremendous amounts of carbon in the form [...] not consumed by marine animals, including dead marine microorganisms, material transported to the oceans by rivers –the particles that trickle down are deposited layer by layer at depth. Ultimately, a unique [...] deposited on the seafloor, leaving clues that enable the AWI geoscientists not only to reconstruct the Arctic’s climate history, but also to understand the role of thawing permafrost in past climate changes.

Greenland Ice Sheet Ocean Interaction Investigation of the Interactions Between the Greenland Ice Sheet and the Surrounding Ocean The joint research project GROCE ( Greenland Ice Sheet Ocean Interaction ) is [...] Atlantic, the Arctic Ocean, and Greenland's glaciers need to be studied in greater detail. More information can be found on the project's website. Schematic illustration of the key oceanic and glaciological [...] rapid inflow of warm Atlantic water beneath the glacier tongue. To record the heat transport into the ocean-filled glacier cavity throughout an entire year and observe potential seasonal variations, we deployed

642-32235-8 Xu, X., M. Werner, M. Butzin, and G. Lohmann, 2013: Oceanic d18O Variation and its Relation to Salinity in the MPI-OM Ocean Model . In: "Earth System Science: Bridging the Gaps between Disciplines [...] Werner, K., Lohmann, G., Prange, M. and Stein, R., 2015: Holocene environmental variability in the Arctic Gateway . In: "Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)". M. Schulz and [...] 2-32235-8 Pfeiffer, M, and G. Lohmann, 2013: The Last Interglacial as Simulated by an Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model: Sensitivity Studies on the Influence of the Greenland Ice Sheet . In: "Earth

current long-term observations 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 the eastern [...] recirculates to the western Fram Strait on timescales of several months while the rest enters the Arctic Ocean and follows a cyclonic circulation for years to decades. The AWI long-term observations in Fram [...] around 4°C since. Two anomalous warm events occurred in fall 2006 and in late winter 2012. In the deep ocean, it was also observed that the two water masses present there (the warmer Eurasian Basin Deep Water