CoastCarb Engl

CoastCarb Collaboration of Work Packages (WP) Planned exchange in CoastCarb Partner institutes Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI, DE) Carl von Ossietzky University

DynAMo Engl

Beagle Channel? In the southernmost part of South America! (Map done with ESRI) (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) - Beagle Channel is 240 km long and about 5 km wide at its narrowest point - The border

Permafrost Resources

important facts and information about permafrost are summarized on these four pages. Julia Boike, Alfred Wegener Institute, Permafrost, Arctic Circle 2015 Presentation This presentation was held at the Arctic Circle

There are large accumulations of plastics in the ocean, even outside so-called garbage patch

team from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), in collaboration with the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), has found large quantities of plastic waste and microplastics in a remote marine

[Translate to English:] Kohnen 2023-4

e measurements across the plateau of Antarctica. Installing borehole electronics (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

Working together to systematically improve our understanding of marine ecosystems

Tohoku University and the Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology JAMSTEC. The Alfred Wegener Institute is part of the new institute.

Sediment core shows climate changes in the Patagonian ice sheet

Southern Hemisphere apart from the Antarctic in the Earth's history. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have now used a sediment core to demonstrate the climate sensitivity of this ice sheet

Warm Atlantic water is melting Greenland’s largest floating ice tongue

length during the past several decades, it has grown thinner and thinner. A team from the Alfred Wegener Institute can now tell us why. By applying a computer-based model, they were able to show that warm

Breaching 2 °C warming could lead to significant melting of the Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf

Trough in the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, reports a modelling study lead by researchers of the Alfred Wegener Institute and published in Communications Earth & Environment . This warmer water could lead to a

Ice flow on Greenland is probably “only” 2,000 years old

sea and thus also influences global sea levels. An international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now used a new evaluation method for airborne radar measurements to determine the age