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  • Continental drift

    "Doesn’t the east coast of South America exactly match the west coast of Africa?" Alfred Wegener asked this question back in 1910, at that time [...] the matter. It must be mentioned at this juncture that before him all sorts of people had noted the fact that the continents of South [...] copy of the first edition of his book “The Formation of Continents and Oceans”. This copy contained blank white pages between the normal pages

  • SO-ASE

    Chloe Boehm Background The Southern Ocean, generally taken to be the ocean south of 60◦S, is of critical importance for global climate. Connecting three major [...] which contains 60 m of potential global sea level rise—a major threat to societies around the world. Changes in the Southern Ocean may also impact the climate [...] between the Southern Ocean, its overlying atmosphere, the AIS and Antarctic sea ice and the response of these components to external forcing,

  • Climate Sciences

    investigating the impact of climate change on marine ecosystems in polar regions, addressing crucial questions about biodiversity, ecosystem shifts, [...] the evolving dynamics of the ocean, atmosphere, sea ice, and ice sheets. At the same time, we push the boundaries of climate modeling – one of our key strengths – by developing, refining, and validating regional and global coupled climate models, harnessing the power of

  • Antarctic Species Under Climate Change

    Christmann, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Antarctic and the Southern Ocean The Antarctic is rife with superlatives: located at the southern end of our planet, it is the coldest [...] survive in the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean? Due to its high salinity, the Southern Ocean’s water doesn’t freeze at zero degrees Celsius, [...] peaceful and above all scientific purposes. This regulation forms the basis for protecting the ice world at the southern end of the planet. And in 1991, the signatories ratified the Protocol on Environmental

  • SNOWflAke

    ice feedbacks for the Earths’ climate. Cross-scale process understanding in the vertical snow column Quantification of the temporal evolution of internal [...] to better understand the temporal and spatial variability of the different components of the Antarctic sea ice mass budget and its interaction with the [...] Xu, S., Zhu, W., Kacimi, S., Arndt, S. , and Yang, Z.: Quantifying the influence of snow over sea ice morphology on L-band passive microwave satellite observations in the Southern Ocean, The Cryosphere,

  • Expeditions

    MecoMM-NS II 08. – 22. March 2024, Bremerhaven – Bremerhaven The aims of the cruise HE635 are cross disciplinary investigations of munition dumping sites in the southern German Bight and the test [...] water phytoplankton blooms occur along the flow of the southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current downstream of the island South Georgia. The sources and magnitude of iron (Fe) [...] day remains the most affected country in the world by these shellfish poisonings. An evaluation of all currently available data leads to the hypothesis

  • Contact persons at AWI

    conduct of their employer, their superiors, other employees or third parties on the basis of race, ethnic origin, gender, religion or world view [...] : agg.beschwerdestelle @ awi.de More information. Animal Welfare The office of the Animal Welfare Officer is part of the enforcement of the legal regulations on animal welfare at institutions where [...] the interests of severely disabled and equivalent employees on the basis of Section 178 of the German Social Security Code (SGB IX) and

  • Awards and honors

    focuses on understanding the drivers of sea surface temperature (SST) and sea ice changes from the satellite era to a warmer world. SO-ASE aims to unravel the [...] Award The unexpected discovery of Hartmut Heinrich has an enormous influence on the work of the section Paleoclimate Dynamics . Deep-sea sediment [...] . Video of the Prize winner

  • Completed Projects

    of Numerical Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INMRAS). The AWI share is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education [...] are investigated. The exceedance of critical temperature thresholds in the Southern Ocean can lead to an irreversible collapse of the West-Antarctic Ice [...] by World Meteorological Organization’s World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) as a key component of the Polar Prediction Project (PPP). YOPP

  • Permafrost Change

    questions were taken up and discussed in the subsequent discussion. 21 July 2020 In the frame of the German EU Council Presidency, a number [...] about important facts of permafrost thawing. A survey at the beginning of the event showed that the topic was new to most participants but of great interest, and also that not all of them were located in the area of Berlin (one even in Luxembourg!) and knew about the workshop