• Polar 5 + 6

    Research aircraft Polar 5 and Polar 6 Much of the Alfred Wegener Institute’s research is conducted in the inaccessible, ice-covered regions of the Arctic and Antarctic, making research aircraft indispensable [...] and operate at temperatures down to -54 degrees Celsius. The polar 6 research aircraft of the Alfred Wegener Institute flies over the Arctic Ocean during an IceBird sea ice thickness campagne. (Photo: Esther

  • AWIPEV Arctic Research Base

    jointly operating the AWIPEV research base. The AWIPEV base was established in 2003 when the German Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and the French Institut Paul-Émile Victor (IPEV) merged their previously independent [...] to collect data from the permafrost measuring instrument. Charlotte Havermans researcher from Alfred-Wegener-Institute prepares a jellyfish caught in the harbour of Ny-Ålesund for further investigation

  • Radiation

    browser cannot display iframes Cleaning radiation instruments (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Solar tracker (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Radiation Measurements since 1982 Sometimes albedo measurements

  • Thomas Jung

    of the research programme "Changing Earth - Sustaining our Future" and Vice Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute and Professor at the University of Bremen. Climate modelling Polar predictions Everyone [...] Jung: The Digitial (R)Evolution: Opportunities and Challenges for Earth System Modelling (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact Thomas Jung +49(471)4831-1761 E-Mail CV Social Media Channels Twitter YouTube

  • Autonomous Platforms

    and 3 show the distribution of deployed buoys since 2012. Map 2 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Map 3 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • SHERPA

    analyses of images from Mann et al. (2004) . Screenshot SHERPA (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Segmented diatom valve (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • Air: Meteorology

    speed, and atmospheric pressure day by day, at the same time, for decades. Researchers of the Alfred-Wegener-Institut are collecting these weather data with the help of meteorological observatories in the [...] considered to be a WMO climate observation station by virtue of the fact that meteorologists of the Alfred Wegener Institute have been measuring the air temperature in Antarctica on a daily basis for 30 years [...] Gert König-Langlo. To be able to collect reliable temperature data, the meteorologists at the Alfred Wegener Institute used a thermometer of a special kind. It consists of a temperature-sensitive platinum

  • Locations and Facilities

    __ Helgoland Island (Central dive facility at AWI) Location of AWI CSD on Helgoland. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) The Centre for Scientific Diving of the AWI is located at the "Binnenhafen" of Helgoland [...] @ awi.de. _________________________ Sylt (North Sea) The island Sylt in the North Sea (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Sylt is the northernmost island of Germany located in the Wadden Sea of Schleswig-Holstein [...] __________ Offshore diving in the German Bight and North Sea Research Vessel Heincke (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Dive missions in the German Bight and the North Sea are conducted from the research

  • Projects

    (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Correlation of multidecadal temperature variations in Brussels with temperature variations in the rest of the world in a climate model simulation (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] .pdf Illustration of the concept of “Boreal forest bi‐stability and glacial legacy“. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Lake & Sea ice algae Lake & Sea-ice algae The seasonal extent and properties of Arctic [...] to investigate taxonomic and functional ice algae composition in the ocean and lakes. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) High-resolution reconstruction of regional climate changes in Antarctica High-resolution

  • POLEX

    Khoshravi, Raphael Köhler, Johannes Riebold Alfred Wegener Institute, section Polar Meteorology: Dr. Christof Lüpkes, Dr. Vladimir Gryanik, Dr. Dmitry Chechin Alfred Wegener Institute, Climate office for polar [...] Potsdam Publications Project Partners Alfred Wegener Institute , Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Section Atmospheric Physics Alfred Wegener Institute , Helmholtz Centre for Polar [...] duration 1.11.2018 - 31.10.2021 Consortium Our consortium includes the following scientists: Alfred Wegener Institute, section Atmospheric Physics: Dr. Annette Rinke, Dr. Dörthe Handorf, Dr. Ralf Jaiser