Typical sensor configuration (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Specialty of CTD data CTD Sensors: starboard and port side of the "Triaxus" sensor carrier (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The specialty of the [...] vertical "Undulation" mode Undulation mode (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Triaxus data example based on PS113 024_02 "equator crossing" (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) With the setting "Undulation" in the [...] Triaxus Towed System "topAWI" Triaxus towing body on deck of RV Polarstern. (Photo: Jan Gerken, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The topAWI Triaxus (towed ocean profiler of the AWI) is a towed system manufactured

covariance system was operated during the summer months. Bayelva, Svalbard, Norway Ny-Alesund (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) On the west coast of Spitsbergen, in and close to the town Ny-Ålesund we operate one

conditions at Arctic field sites (in Siberia, Svalbard and Canada) Our research is based at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Research Unit Potsdam in cooperation

processes at the floating glacier tongue of the 79° North Glacier. (Graphic: Martin Künsting, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Our oceanographic work focuses on measurements near the calving front of the 79° North

Ice-Tethered Profiler Working principle of an Ice-Tethered Profiler (Rick Krishfield, WHOI) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Ice-Tethered Profilers (ITPs) are autonomous, freely drifting measurement platforms [...] from the IBCAO Atlas and is shown in blue shading (in meters from the water surface). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

Aerobics Mehr in Kürze (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Head of Group Dr. Felix Mark Team Isabel Ketelsen

Haakon. Icebreakers Kronprins Haakon and Polarstern at the Aurora Hydrothermal Ventfield (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

differ in the presumed location of faults and heat sources. Hydrothermal ventfields (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

Ocean-Ice Shelf Interaction Figure 1: Map of Antarctica (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The accelerating rate of mass loss of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, responsible for global sea level [...] Ocean abyss (Fig. 2). Antarctic Ice Sheet tomorrow Results of numerical models, developed at the Alfred Wegener Institute to study the sea ice-ocean-ice shelf system under climate change, show that atmospheric [...] Weddell Seae Darstellung der hydrographischen Bedingungen im südlichen Weddellmeer. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Figure 3: Bottom topography beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet according to Bedmap2. (Graphic:

models to predict future developments. Our working area offshore Northeast Greenland (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Contact Dr. Boris Dorschel Dr. Catalina Gebhardt Cooperation partners UI Tromsø, Norway