• Heat from Below: How the Ocean is Wearing Down the Arctic Sea Ice

      role in the marked decrease in sea-ice growth, especially in winter. Sea-ice physicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), together with researchers from

    • Sulfur promotes carbon storage in the Black Sea

      y high volume of organic carbon. A team of researchers led by Dr Gonzalo Gomez-Saez from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and Dr Jutta Niggemann from the

    • Climate Change makes Arctic Ozone Loss Worse

      Arctic stratosphere. As an evaluation of meteorological data and model-based simulations by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) now indicates, ozone depletion

    • Antarctic Circumpolar Current Flows More Rapidly in Warm Phases

      transport of heat, salt and nutrients in the ocean. An international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now evaluated sediment samples from the Drake Passage. Their findings: during the

    • Hausgarten Expedition ends

      expedition to the Fram Strait between Greenland and Spitsbergen. In the so-called Hausgarten of the Alfred Wegener Institute there, the approximately 50 scientific expedition participants continued their more

    • EU Provides 15 Million Euros of Funding for Arctic Project

      Programme to fund the Arctic PASSION project for the period 2021 to 2025. Under the leadership of the Alfred Wegener Institute, a consortium of 35 partners will promote the integration of international environmental

    • Glacial melt in the high Mountains of Asia

      growing, a team of researchers led by the University of St Andrews and with contributions from the Alfred Wegener Institute has concluded.

    • Climate change and its consequences on foreign policy

      between Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and Markus Rex, MOSAiC expedition leader and scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

    • Virtual research lab for MOSAiC data

      MOSAiC expedition. In order to rapidly make user-friendly access to this information possible, the Alfred Wegener Institute, together with the DKRZ Hamburg and the DLR Jena, will develop a series of analytical

    • Atmospheric research in Germany will be significantly expanded

      Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) in Leipzig, and the Research Unit Potsdam of the Alfred Wegener Institute is also involved. ACTRIS will provide data on the short-lived constituents of the