• Ocean Warming and Thawing Permafrost Reduce the Arctic Ocean's Biological Carbon Storage and CO2 Uptake

      uptake and long-term storage of carbon - a new study in Nature Climate Change by experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute reveals a surprising outcome. Instead of strengthening, the carbon pump is being weakened

    • Turning point in global fossil CO2 emissions has not yet been reached

      emissions worldwide. This is the conclusion of the Global Carbon Project, which researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute / the University of Bremen and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich)

    • What dangers lie in industrial contaminated sites in permafrost?

      ecosystems and the local communities can be endangered by the waste. In August, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, together with national and international partners, therefore, keep a close eye on

    • Global warming and mass extinctions: What we can learn from plants from the last ice age

      And how does altered biodiversity actually affect interactions between plants? Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute have tackled these questions and, in two recent studies, presented the answers they

    • Effects of marine heatwaves and cold spells on ecosystems in Arctic fjords

      communities. In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ and the Helmholtz Centre Hereon

    • GIS

      GIS: Gas Interface System GIS - Gas interface system (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / G. Mollenhauer) The GIS facilitates the direct measurement of CO 2 (instead of graphite) in the MICADAS and thus of

    • Strategy & History

      Strategy Activities (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The process took a considerable amount of time. In 2003, only one person was employed in the field of bionic lightweight construction. The number of

    • Ceilometer

      Ceilometer Backscatter Profiles Ceilometer CL51 (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) In October 2010 the Ceilometer CL51 ( VAISALA , Finnland) was mounted on the monkey deck of Polarstern. It is able to measure

    • Surface Radiation

      cannot display iframes Ny-Ålesund radiation measurements and atmospheric observatory (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Surface radiative fluxes are a key parameter of climate. The surface radiation budget

    • Radiosondes

      Radiosonde launch. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Upper-air temperature of the current year. For the retrieval of the meteorological parameters temperature, humidity, pressure and wind not only at the