tons). These are the outcomes of a report just released by the Global Carbon Project, which the Alfred Wegener Institute helped to prepare.

absorb atmospheric CO 2 on the scale of Iceland’s total annual emissions, as researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and partner institutes report in the current issue of the journal Nature Geoscience

first conference of the parties will take place in Seoul (South Korea). Dr Hauke Flores from the Alfred Wegener Institute will be part of the EU delegation, serving as a scientific advisor.

concentration by as much as 12 ppm. These findings were just released by researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute in the journal Nature Communications .

ice-penetrating radar scans of the Greenland ice sheet, that a team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute have just presented in the journal Nature Geoscience.

combining the shipyards Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Kiel and Werft Nobiskrug in Rendsburg, the Alfred Wegener Institute’s flagship has successfully completed more than 130 expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic

authorities, climate research institutions and supercomputing centers are involved in the project. Alfred Wegener Institute is participating in DestinE with its ocean model FESOM, which efficiently simulates

shifted to the summer by climate change, as an international team including experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute recently demonstrated. If this comes to pass, it could have far-reaching consequences

Ice sheets: can the heat harm them? Prof. Dr Olaf Eisen, glaciologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute and professor at the University of Bremen. Ice sheets Glaciers Ice dynamics in climate change The ice

permafrost: The ground is thawing Prof. Dr Guido Grosse, Head of Permafrost Research Section at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Permafrost Greenhouse gases Climate change Permafrost is the technical term for p