• HGF-Projects

    FRAM (Frontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring) HGF infrastructur programme Duration: 01.08.2014 - 31.07.2021 Coordination: Antje Boetius, AWI, Bremerhaven The FRAM Ocean Observing System will be installed [...] Central Arctic, representing a highly climate-sensitive and rapidly changing region of the Earth system. FRAM will implement existing and next-generation sensors and observatory platforms, allowing synchronous

  • in-situ

    2 , Fram Strait, Bremerhaven-Tromsö; 6 Jun-3 Jul 2014 SHIVASonne SO235 (OASIS-2), Indic Ocean, Port Luis (Mauritius) to Male (Malediven), Jul to Aug 2014 RV Polarstern, ARK XXIX-2.2 (PS93.2), Fram Strait [...] Polarstern, PS99, Fram Strait, Bremerhaven to Tromsö, Jun-Jul 2016 RV Polarstern, PS103, Atlantic Southern Ocean, Capetown to Punta Arenas, Dec 2016-Feb 2017 RV Polarstern, PS107, Fram Strait, Tromsö to [...] 2019 RV Polarstern, PS121, Fram Strait, Bremerhaven to Tromsö, Aug-Sep 2019 RV Kormoran, BS1, Lake Constance, Langenargen to Langenargen, Mar 2020 RV Maria S. Merian, MSM 93, Fram Strait, Bremerhaven to

  • Cooperation Partners

    Technical University of Denmark , Charlottenlund, Denmark ( FRAM , PhD R. Goncalves Araujo ) Norwegian Polar Institute , Tromsö, Norway ( FRAM , PhD R. Goncalves Araujo ) ACRI-ST , Sophia Antippolis, Fr [...] Geesthacht (HZG), Center for Materials and Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany ( OCEANET , ACENMAP , FRAM ) Institute of Marine Sciences, Mediterranean Marine and Environmental Research Centre (ICM, CSIC)

  • Long-term observations in the Arctic Ocean

    @ awi.de Fram Strait / West Spitsbergen 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 [...] systems in addition to icebreaker-based surveys. Our focus areas are the boundary current from the Fram Strait to the Siberian Arctic and the upper Arctic basin. There is a strong link between the variability [...] (2015)Circulation and transformation of Atlantic water in the Eurasian Basin and the contribution of the Fram Strait inflow branch to the Arctic Ocean heat budget ,Progress in Oceanography, 132 , pp. 128-152

  • Research

    scenarios. FRAM operations beneath the ice (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/FRAM/Sabine Lüdeling) FRAM - Our Work group is also involved in the context of the Arctic long-term observatory FRAM (Frontiers [...] and temporal resolution in the future. The foundation of the FRAM observatory is the preexisting long-term observatory 'Hausgarten' in the Fram Strait, which connects the Arctic and the Atlantic Ocean. Different

  • With high-tech in the deep sea

    operating in our study area, i.e. the LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research) Observatory HAUSGARTEN in Fram Strait between Greenland and the Svalbard archipelago.

  • Homebound through the ice.

    October 2016
    During the sixth week of expedition PS101 we are making our way home through the ice. A FRAM “superbuoy” station needs to be rescued before we leave the ice.

  • The expedition comes to an end

    4 September 2016
    Today we have completed our research programme at the Knipovich Ridge south of Fram Strait. We are now on the transit toward Tromsø, where we will arrive in the morning of 6 September

  • Turbulent recirculation

    week was characterized by intense station work both in the West Spitsbergen Current and in central Fram Strait.

  • The Expedition PS 99 from Bremerhaven to Tromsø

    lead to study areas northwest of Bear Island, south of Spitsbergen and in the central and eastern Fram Strait.