• Sulfur promotes carbon storage in the Black Sea

      . A team of researchers led by Dr Gonzalo Gomez-Saez from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and Dr Jutta Niggemann from the University of Oldenburg’s

    • Climate Change makes Arctic Ozone Loss Worse

      evaluation of meteorological data and model-based simulations by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) now indicates, ozone depletion in the Arctic polar vortex

    • Antarctic Circumpolar Current Flows More Rapidly in Warm Phases

      nutrients in the ocean. An international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now evaluated sediment samples from the Drake Passage. Their findings: during the last interglacial period,

    • Hausgarten Expedition ends

      Greenland and Spitsbergen. In the so-called Hausgarten of the Alfred Wegener Institute there, the approximately 50 scientific expedition participants continued their more than 20 years of long-term

    • EU Provides 15 Million Euros of Funding for Arctic Project

      project for the period 2021 to 2025. Under the leadership of the Alfred Wegener Institute, a consortium of 35 partners will promote the integration of international environmental observing systems for

    • Glacial melt in the high Mountains of Asia

      by the University of St Andrews and with contributions from the Alfred Wegener Institute has concluded.

    • Climate change and its consequences on foreign policy

      and Markus Rex, MOSAiC expedition leader and scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

    • Søråsen

      Station Søråsen Location of AWS Søråsen and Neumayer_III (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 2016-01-21 an automatic weather station was installed on a gentle hill called Søråsen (-71.21625, -10.06716) 574 [...] the AWS as backup. Installing the AWS Søråsen 2016-01-21 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Yearly overview of AWS Søråsen data (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Daily overview AWS Søråsen data (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Halvfarryggen

      Weather Station Halvfarryggen AWS_Halvfarryggen.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In January 2019 an automatic weather station was installed on Halvfarryggen (71.17489°S, 6.80027°W), 690m above [...] (IMAU)". Yearly overview of AWS Halvfarryggen data (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Daily overview AWS Halvfarryggen data (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Virtual research lab for MOSAiC data

      make user-friendly access to this information possible, the Alfred Wegener Institute, together with the DKRZ Hamburg and the DLR Jena, will develop a series of analytical tools that will allow