Bracher A. (2013) Photophysiological state of natural phytoplankton communities in the South China Sea and Sulu Sea. Biogeosciences Discuss., 10, 12115-12153, doi:10.5194/bgd-9-4727-2012. Wetzel G., Oelhaf H [...] Assessment of transparent exopolymer particles in the Arctic Ocean implemented into the coupled ocean-sea ice-biogeochemistry model FESOM2.1-REcOM. Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) doi.org/10 [...] Siebert H., Wehner B., Wietz M., Bracher A ., van Pinxteren M. (2025) Marine Carbohydrates and Other Sea Spray Aerosol Constituents Across Altitudes in the Lower Troposphere of Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. Atmospheric

Kühn B., Hélaouë P. (2021) Using dynamic ocean color provinces to elucidate mechanisms driving North Sea oceanography and ecology. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. DOI: 10.1029/2021JC017686 2020 [...] Moreau S. (2017) Latitudinal distribution of particulate carbon export across the North Western Atlantic Ocean. Deep Sea Research I 129:116-130. doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2017.08.016 Ramírez-Pérez M [...] austral summer 2012. Deep-Sea Research II 138: 6-25; doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.05.018 Zäncker B, Bracher A. , Röttgers R., Engel A.: Variations of the organic matter composition in the sea surface microlayer:

Helgoland and Sylt, AWI conducts climate and marine research, especially in the polar regions and the North Sea. If you would like to support this important work, we cordially invite you to become a member of [...] future Support for AWI climate and environmental research The melting of ice, global warming and rising sea levels are examples of the significant changes in the global environment and the earth's climate that

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mesocosm experiments with North Sea plankton to understand how global change impacts planktonic food webs on different organisational levels (individual, population, and community) North Sea plankton Asterionellopsis [...] interactions, and are characterized by strong spatio-temporal dynamics. The characterization of Shelf Sea food webs is our central aim. By using field and experimental approaches, we address the effects of

in the North- and Baltic Seas was a collaborative project with the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH). The project focused on concentrations of algae and oxygen in the North Sea and Baltic [...] Agency (BSH) in the North and Baltic Seas. The data assimilation system uses PDAF and the operational model HBM coupled to the ecosystem model ERGOM and focused on the assimialtion of sea surface temperature [...] ocean models by data assimilation, for example by utilizing satellite observations of sea surface temperature or sea surface height. Similarly, ocean-biogeochemical models can profit from the incorporation

Nordsee 2025 Alexander Haumann and Rowan Brown are leading the Heincke student expedition to the North Sea with students from Munich, Düsseldorf, and Bremen. There is a new blog entry about this. Find out [...] Advanced seminar: Polar Regions in Transition (winter semester) Short field trip: Heincke Expedition North Sea (summer semester) Publications Olivier, L. , Haumann, F. A. (2025). Southern Ocean freshening stalls [...] budget. This important role arises from the vast exchange of water between the deep ocean and the sea surface that is unprecedented in the global ocean elsewhere. Over past decades, the Southern Ocean

composition and trophic interactions of the subpolar North Atlantic that these impacts last until today. Researchers led by the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries in Bremerhaven just described this. The study

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