• Projects

    improve the ability of such ESMs to faithfully represent the centennial-scale evolution of the global climate, especially its variability, extremes and how tipping points may unfold under the influence [...] climate change information is delivered, helping address the complex challenges of a warming world. As part of the EU’s Destination Earth initiative, the Climate DT produces multi-decadal, high-resolution climate [...] new generation of Earth System Models (ESMs) that are capable of explicitly representing a crucially important, yet unexplored regime of the Earth system – the ocean mesoscale. Leveraging the latest advances

  • Climate modelling

    include a digital twin of every atom in the ocean and atmosphere in the model – and the processing power of all the world’s supercomputers combined wouldn’t remotely be up to the task. Accordingly, models [...] refers to the long-term state of the atmosphere and ocean over decades, centuries or millennia. To gauge the climate, the statistics of the meteorological parameters also used to determine the weather are [...] Celsius, according to the IPCC the risk of exceeding certain tipping points in the climate system will be lower. This assessment was also the basis for the 1.5-degree target included in the Paris Agreement,

  • Open ship and Lab

    and cakes in the library so that you can get a break. Introduction to the Helgoland time series The Biologische Anstalt Helgoland operates some of the oldest time series in the world. The phytoplankton [...] automatically. The scientific dive centre The AWI's scientific dive centre is one of the largest institutions of its kind in Europe. On BAH Open day you will have the opportunity to meet the scientific dive [...] analysed much more often that is the case in many other time series around the world. This facilitates a unique insight in the North Sea ecosystem but also means a lot of work on the ships as well as in our l

  • POGO_2016_Graduation_abstractbook.pdf

    (2015). The best fitting of the parameters of the NPZD model with the nutrient and the phytoplankton data in the southern Indian Ocean is presented here. The factors susceptible to control the most the plankton [...] with a maximum of 34.9 PSU. A threshold 17 of 33.6 PSU was chosen as the proxy of high salinity as the mean salinity around the area is about 32 PSU (Schulz, 2009). A number of 21 years of high salinity [...] oceanographic fields. The Leg 1, which started from Jakarta (Indonesia) on the 26th of June, and ended in Port Louis (Mauritius) on the 16th of July was focused on the exploration of the southern Indian Ocean Gyre

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  • Transition from Cretaceous Greenhouse to Tertiary Icehouse

    hiatusses in the South Atlantic since the middle Miocene. The opening of Drake Passage in early Oligocene times and the closure of the CAS at ~6 Ma, i.e., tectonic processes, have been identified as the key triggers [...] emplacement of the plateau influence the climatic, oceanic environments, and Earth’s biota? What can we deduce about water mass changes during early stages of the plateau’s evolution? Did emplacement of the Agulhas [...] important driver of Cretaceous-Paleogene/Neogene climate changes in the Southern Ocean but the opening of gateways and subsequent migration of continents also has had a profound effect on the regional climate

  • Beyond iron: vitamins, zinc and cobalt

    measurements of both, dissolved and particulate trace metals and vitamins will better elucidate the cycling of these micronutrients in the SO. In order to gain a better understanding of the physiological [...] Looking beyond Iron: Dynamics of vitamins, zinc and cobalt and their effect on phytoplankton community composition in a changing Southern Ocean In large areas of the worlds oceans iron (Fe) limits primary [...] Fe in different parts of the SO, short-term shipboard manipulation experiments with natural phytoplankton assemblages are planned onboard the Polarstern in the austral summers of 2016 and 2017. In addition

  • Archive for German Polar Research

    to the archive holdings. In addition, you receive information about the origin of the archival records, about the work of the submitting agency and about its history. However, this procedure of the archive [...] Polarforschung - AdP) About the Archive The AdP was founded in 2011 on the basis of the Bremen Archive Act and has since worked as the memory of the AWI and German polar and marine research. The archive appraises [...] use the archive? The use of the AdP is free of charge. However, charges are levied for the production of copies of any kind, which are laid down in a scale of fees (available only in German). The archive

  • Research Vessel and Icebreaker Polarstern

    programme with a host of partners. Investigating unexplored ocean currents to the north of Greenland The scarcely explored region to the north of Greenland was the area of study in the last of three Arctic e [...] in the world. The Polarstern operates an average of 305 days a year, typically cruising in the Antarctic from November to March and pursuing research in the Arctic during the summer months. In the process [...] undertaken by the Polarstern since the end of May 2025. In the largely untraveled waters north and northeast of Greenland, a research team led by physical oceanographer Torsten Kanzow of the Alfred Wegener

  • Polar underwater sounds - AWI OZA (Kopie 2)

    Spectrogram of 20060419-0814_PALAOA (Photo: OZA AWI) A silent ocean Southern Ocean with sea ice (Photo: AWI) The Southern Ocean is one of the last pristine areas of the world’s oceans. Only few fishing and [...] Examples of underwater sounds in the polar oceans Map of the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean with all recording positions marked in red. (Photo: OZA AWI) The sound snippets below illustrate some [...] frequently in the vicinity of Elephant Island, off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, where the 20 Hz pulse also often contains a higher frequency component around 89 Hz. Spectrogram of 20130705-

  • Thomas Jung

    important glance into the future and at the same time one of the most central tools of climate research. The better these models reproduce the natural processes in the climate system, the more accurate and [...] Models: Images of the future Prof. Dr Thomas Jung, head of the Climate Dynamics section, spokesperson of the research programme "Changing Earth - Sustaining our Future" and Vice Director of the Alfred Wegener [...] participate in the international model comparison for the 6 th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the first time in the past three years. The results of these CMIP6 climate