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varying resolutions, are not well understood. Emerging research suggests a complex interplay between the Fram Strait Sea Ice Export (FSSIE) and the AMO, pointing to a critical, yet underexplored, feedback mechanism

Pre-Quaternary

doi:10.1073/pnas.2301954120 Hossain, A. , Knorr, G. , Jokat, W. and Lohmann, G. (2021): Opening of the Fram Strait led to the establishment of a modern-like three-layer stratification in the Arctic Ocean during

PS-Schedule_2025_20250225.pdf

LOGISTICS 05 Heli Service 06 Secondary users: 06 Southern Ocean 06 Southern Ocean 06 B. FIEDLER 06 06 FRAM2025 06 Chief Scientist: 06 06 GPF 24-1/009 06 06 06 NO 07 GPF 23-2_015 07 Weddel-Sea 07 Weddel-Sea [...] CONTRASTS 10 10 10 10 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 Areas: 11 (ArcWatch 3) 11 11 11 11 11 12 12 12 12 Area: 12 12 Fram Strait 12 12 12 Project: 12 12 Bremerhaven 12 13 13 13 13 Atlantic Transit 13 SHIPYARD 13 E Greenl [...] Atlantic Transit 25 25 25 25 25 25 Areas: 25 25 OceanCapX 25 GPF 2024/029 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 Fram Strait 26 26 (ex. POGO) 26 GPF 2024/031 27 Helicopter 27 27 Heli Service 27 27 27 27 27 27 Greenlandshelf

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Moorings

several moorings with physical and biogeochemical sensors distributed over a certain area (e.g. in the Fram Strait or in the Weddell Sea) over a period of several years or even decades. This has been done at

Expedition

Arenas Chief Scientist: M. Schröder Cruise track (planned) Programme (planned) PS93.1 | ARK-XXIX/2.1 | Fram Strait/Greenland Sea Start: 2015-06-29, Longyearbyen End: 2015-07-17, Tromsö Chief Scientist: R. Stein

PS128CruiseReport_BzPM_0764_2022.pdf

y of archaeal lipid flux and GDGT-based thermometry in sinking particles of high-latitude oceans: Fram Strait (79°N) and Antarctic Polar Front (50°S). Biogeosciences 16: 2247-2268. Rickli J, et al. (2014) [...] contributions of the participants 757 (2021) The Expedition PS126 of the Research Vessel POLARSTERN to the Fram Strait in 2021, edited by Thomas Soltwedel with contributions of the participants Die Berichte zur

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Main Research Topics

whales and seals and their underwater acoustic environment in the polar oceans, the Weddell Sea and Fram Strait in particular. To do so, we use long-term (multi-year) visual observations and passive acoustic…

Projects

ed by the land masses of North America, Greenland and… Find out more Arctic Long-term Observatory FRAM 5,000 metres seawater plus ice separate the seafloor from boisterous life in the upper water layers

Circulation in the Arctic Ocean and the Nordic Seas

changes in the warm northward flow, we monitor the Atlantic Water in the West Spitsbergen Current in Fram Strait by use of an oceanographic mooring array since 1997. Surface waters are densified through cooling [...] storing) Beaufort Gyre, and the Transpolar Drift, which drives the freshwater towards Greenland and Fram Strait from where it is eventually exported to the subpolar North Atlantic. The Arctic freshwater [...] contributes to a destabilization of the Greenland ice streams. We observed Atlantic water warming in Fram Strait and this water is likely to affect the (presently) stable North East Greenland ice stream (NEGIS)

ARCGATE

2017. Figure 1: Mooring sites maintained during 2008-2009. The four major Arctic gateways (Davis, Fram, Bering Straits and BSO) are highlighted by orange circles. Each box shows length of observations [...] Tromsø, Norway and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany for western and eastern Fram Strait, respectively; the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) in Bergen, Norway for the Barents Sea [...] von Appen; Dr. B. Rabe; Prof. Dr. T. Kanzow; Dr. M. Karcher AWI and Arctic boundary PIs in Davis , Fram, Bering Straits and Barents Sea opening (BSO)