• Automatic Weather Stations

      Halvfarryggen AWS Kohnen AWS test site at Neumayer_III (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) At AWI, modifyed AWS-systems based on stations from Campell Scientific are in use. To quantify errors - which are [...] AWS. In parallel, they get transmitted hourly via IRIDIUM to the Alfred Wegener Institute. The most recent data get forwarded into the Globale Telekommunikation System (GTS) of the Wold Meteorology

    • Upper Air Soundings

      were taken. Lauching a radiosonde from the heliport (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Meridional-height section of temperature during ANT-XXI based on upper air soundings (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut

    • Kick-off for a new polar research project

      and Research is funding the project, which is coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, with 2.7 million euros until the end of 2026.

    • Weakening of Antarctic bottom water circulation is noticeable in the North Atlantic

      into the depths. An international research team, including the Alfred Wegener Institute, has now discovered that ocean currents have weakened by around twelve per cent due to the Antarctic bottom water

    • Ice core drilling on Greenland reaches bedrock

      Institute, University of Copenhagen, and many researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have participated in the drilling over the past seven years.

    • Marked decrease in Arctic pressure ridges

      study in the journal Nature Climate Change , experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute report on this trend and analyse observational data from three decades of aerial surveys.

    • More and stronger marine heatwaves in the Arctic – with severe consequences

      changes occurring at unprecedented rates. A new study led by the Alfred Wegener Institute shows how marine heatwaves will also become much more intense and frequent in the Arctic in the 21st century. With

    • Arctic Carbon Conveyor Belt Discovered

      of Iceland’s total annual emissions, as researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and partner institutes report in the current issue of the journal Nature Geoscience .

    • No Sign of a Reduction in Global CO2 Emissions

      a report just released by the Global Carbon Project, which the Alfred Wegener Institute helped to prepare.

    • How unstable is the East Antarctic Ice Sheet?

      the Antarctic. Extensive preventative measures have allowed the Alfred Wegener Institute to tackle important research on former instabilities of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet despite the the COVID-19