• 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

    • QUARCCS

      Ritter, A. Schulz, Prof. K. Dethloff, Dr. X. Yu Alfred Wegener Institute, section Sea Ice Physics : Prof. C. Haas, Dr. T. Krumpen, J. Belter Alfred Wegener Institute, section Polar Biological Oceanography [...] 2017, Potsdam quarccs-kickoff-pdm_2017.JPG (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Second Meeting, June 2018, Moscow group_photo-moscow.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Download agenda here... Third Meeting [...] doi:10.5194/tc-14-1727-2020 Partners: • Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Section Atmospheric Physics • Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar

    • High-latitude Vegetation Change

      Vegetation Change [Translate to English:] Drone-based acquisitions for forest structure (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The climate in the high latitudes is changing rapidly, profoundly affecting vegetation [...] egetation surveys during expeditions . at high latitudes. Find out more Dr. Stefan Kruse (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Head Dr. Stefan Kruse Team Dr. Birgit Heim Dr. Mareike Wieczorek Luca Zsofia Farkas [...] representation of greenhouse gas balances in boreal ecosystems. Contact : Dr. Stefan Kruse Partner : Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) German Aerospace Center (DLR)

    • PANGAEA

      (DOI). PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science is a joint facility of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Centre for Marine Env

    • Little researched current impacting on winter sea ice in the Arctic

      water back out of the Barents Sea on the sea ice of the Barents Sea. A research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute has now discovered - using model simulations - that this return flow from the Barents

    • Proxy Development

      Proxy Development Biomarker-based sea ice recontrsuctions. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The era of instrumental weather measurements spans only a tiny fraction (<150 years) of Earth’s climate history

    • Biophysics (NMR)

      laboratory A look behind the scenes of the NMR laboratory. Find out more Christian Bock (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Head of group Dr. Christian Bock Head of laboratory Dr. Felizitas Wermter Team Anette

    • A3m-transform

      through air-mass transformations Aims of our young investigator group A3m-transform icon (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) We want to understand why Arctic climate (temperature and precipitation) change is