• Food Web Analysis - From sample to model

      Model - 2017 edition Summer school in network analyses, edition 2016 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) header (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Aim of the course Introduction into food web analysis using the [...] communicated by explaining and exercising simple modelling. Venue Wadden Sea Station on Sylt of the Alfred- Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung Target audience Advanced students,

    • Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems

      (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 des Konzepts "Bi-Stabilität des borealen Waldes und glaziales Erbe". (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Lake & Sea ice algae Lake & Sea ice algae Die saisonale Ausdehnung und die Eigenschaften [...] der taxonomischen und funktionellen Zusammensetzung von Eisalgen in Seen und Ozeanen. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) High-resolution reconstruction of regional climate changes in Antarctica High-resolution

    • Helge Goessling

      with computer models Dr Helge Goessling (Gößling), climate physicist and group leader at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Polar predictions Climate modelling Sea ice IPCC Extreme events Free-access reprint [...] important in terms of climate development as possible, in the form of mathematical equations. The Alfred Wegener Institute has several decades of experience in ocean simulation and earned an international

    • How polluted is the Elbe River?

      . In a joint measurement campaign, researchers from several Helmholtz Centres, including the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), want to take a closer look at

    • Micro- and nanoplastic from the atmosphere is polluting the ocean

      Reviews Earth and Environment , an international team of researchers – including experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, and the GEOMAR Helmholtz

    • Antarctic hotspot: Fin whales favour the waters around Elephant Island

      the life of the world’s second-largest whale. That makes the findings of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Johann Heinrich von Thünen

    • Major wind-driven ocean currents are shifting toward the poles

      wind-driven current systems in the ocean have steadily shifted toward the poles. Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), came to this conclusion after

    • Pioneering research reveals Arctic matter pathways poised for major shifts amidst climate change

      Arctic biogeochemistry and ecosystems, while the fresh water itself alters ocean circulation. The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar an Marine Research (AWI) was part of the international

    • Media centre

      Media Centre of the Alfred Wegener Institute Public Media Centre Utilization Under the Creative Commons licence CC-BY 4.0 the AWI provides photos and infographics, which can be used freely if the copyright

    • P2C2 Arctic Coastal Wetlands

      deglaciation Coastal wetland in the Fish Creek river delta at the Alaska Arctic Coastal Plain (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) This project studies how emissions of the greenhouse gas methane change in response