the Arctic (AWIPEV Research Base in Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen) Pyranometer in Ny-Ålesund. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Ny-Ålesund is situated 78.9° N north of the arctic circle. During the polar night from [...] Annual cycle of surface radiation, mean values from radiation measurements 1992 to 2024 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Climate Change and Radiation The shortwave solar radiation and its reflection at the [...] from daily mean values of reflective and downward shortwave radiation in Ny-Ålesund. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Publication The surface radiation measurements and related climate aspects are discussed

Berger AWS Søråsen AWS Filchner AWS 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. [...] get saved locally inside the 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)

Changes in the Labrador Sea: High vs. Low-Resolution FESOM Setups (1948–2009, March) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Antarctic ice sheet in warming climates Funding programm: AWI INSPIRES, International [...] millennia. Modelling result: West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed during last interglacial (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Greenland ice cores as proxy for European extremes INSP-IV, Topic 2, Subtopic 2.2 - [...] induced changes by comparing scenarios with and without temporary temperature overshoots. The Alfred-Wegener-Insitute on Polar and Marine Research, in collaboration with the Danish Meteorological Institute

The latter is enabled by dedicated model development work that led to the establishment of the Alfred Wegener Institute Earth System Model that extends the simulation of the Earth System from the classical

extensive microearthquake data sets. Seismicity studies at the Arctic Ridge System (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) We are also involved in other projects along slow and ultraslow spreading ridges.

about the current state of construction regarding the new research icebreaker Polarstern for the Alfred Wegener Institute. Shortly before Christmas 2024, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, with

" in antarctic waters. The antenna of a deployed float is visible in the foreground. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Floats are free drifting underwater buoys. They measure ocean currents, temperature

What are “moorings”? A current meter on a mooring line (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Moorings are measuring systems that remain in a specific location in the ocean for several years. A mooring initially [...] diagram of a mooring with a large number of oceanographic devices. (Graphic: Matthias Monsees (Alfred-Wegener-Institut))

(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

(RAME), Italy LEGOS (Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales), France Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Germany Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France Thalès Alenia Space