“Boris” led to chaos and flooding in Central and Eastern Europe. An analysis conducted by the Alfred Wegener Institute shows that in a world without the current level of global warming Boris would have

2008/09 Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Chapter 2: Ausgewählte Forschungsthemen, pages 32-35 or: Research Highlights 2010 Alfred-Wegener-Institut

century due to climate-driven changes in basic environmental parameters. antonia.thielecke @ awi.de Alfred Wegener Institut Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven E-1015

Anna Naberhaus, B.Sc. Masters student Anna Naberhaus (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Title of Masters thesis: Characterisation of the Arctic Phytoplankton community at the Chlorophyll maximum at the

Radiosonde launch. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Upper-air temperature of the current year. For the retrieval of the meteorological parameters temperature, humidity, pressure and wind not only at the

cannot display iframes Ny-Ålesund radiation measurements and atmospheric observatory (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Surface radiative fluxes are a key parameter of climate. The surface radiation budget

Geosciences Department, the Institute for Environmental Physics of the University of Bremen and the Alfred Wegener Institute, have investigated how a change in Atlantic circulation would impact the Amazon Rain

Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon. The study is part of the collaborative project APOC. Partners are the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for

to the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam via Internet, where physicist Dr. Christoph Ritter analyzes it in detail. Lidar hatch: The laser beam leaves the observatory (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] and are detected by photo multiplier tubes (PMT) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The control software records the data (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] AWIPEV observatory towards the clear sky. This beam belongs to a LIDAR system, runned by the Alfred-Wegener-Institute in Potsdam for more than 25 years. With this instrument scientists investigate the

includes documents from scientists from early stages of German polar research, i. e. the papers from Alfred Wegener (NL 2), from Johannes Georgi (NL 3) from Fritz Loewe (NL 4), from Hermann Junghenn (NL 7), from [...] alia a small collection on the third German expedition to Antarctica from 1938 to 1939, headed by Alfred Ritscher (S 1), and a stamp collection on polar research, which includes not only individual com [...] polar and maritime research, e. g. to the first and second German expedition to Greenland or to Wegener's expedition to this island (S 4), and a collection of 80 documentaries in different formats and