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important glance into the future and at the same time one of the most central tools of climate research. The better these models reproduce the natural processes in the climate system, the more accurate and [...] Models: Images of the future Prof. Dr Thomas Jung, head of the Climate Dynamics section, spokesperson of the research programme "Changing Earth - Sustaining our Future" and Vice Director of the Alfred Wegener [...] participate in the international model comparison for the 6 th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the first time in the past three years. The results of these CMIP6 climate

Spectrogram of 20060419-0814_PALAOA (Photo: OZA AWI) A silent ocean Southern Ocean with sea ice (Photo: AWI) The Southern Ocean is one of the last pristine areas of the world’s oceans. Only few fishing and [...] Examples of underwater sounds in the polar oceans Map of the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean with all recording positions marked in red. (Photo: OZA AWI) The sound snippets below illustrate some [...] frequently in the vicinity of Elephant Island, off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, where the 20 Hz pulse also often contains a higher frequency component around 89 Hz. Spectrogram of 20130705-

filmed thousands of nests of icefish of the species Neopagetopsis ionah on the seabed. The density of the nests and the size of the entire breeding area suggest a total number of about 60 million icefish [...] breeding at the time of observation. These findings provide support for the establishment of a Marine Protected Area in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. A team led by Autun Purser from the Alfred [...] Fascinating discovery
Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea, a research team has found the world's largest fish breeding area known to date. A towed camera system ph

UN Decade of Ocean Science Spotlight on the Ocean It’s a world full of riddles: though the ocean shapes the face of our ‘blue planet’, covering 70 percent of its surface, we still know far too little about [...] safety. In the context of the Decade, all of this knowhow is to be made available worldwide. And last but not least, the goal is to raise awareness for the economic, social and cultural value of the ocean; [...] network that investigates open research questions and develops solutions for the preservation and sustainable use of the ocean. Its motto: “The science we need for the ocean we want”. After all, intact ocean

acoustic recording unit like the ones used by the PAM recorders in HAFOS. This takes advantage of the recorder now sitting just under the icy surface of the ice shelf, accessible by the Neumayer overwintering [...] Strait, respectively. See the maps to the right for of the recording sites occupied so far. Please note that not all sites are equipped with recorders at all time. Maps of the Arctic and Antarctic with [...] Tracking of Antarctic marine mammals) The aim of the PASATA project was to use time-synchronized passive acoustic recorders to localize vocalizing marine mammals in the Atka Bay area. Alongside the passive

little about 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 [...] Antarctic Peninsula
During the era of commercial whaling, fin whales were hunted so intensively that only a small percentage of the population in the Southern Hemisphere survived, and even today, marine [...] where in the peak month of May, so many fin whale vocalizations can be heard that the individual calls merge into a veritable chorous of sound, as the research team now reports in the journal Royal Society

discuss, like the rights to the research data. Once the expedition is over, our goal is to share as much of the da- ta as possible with the entire world. Of course, we had to convince our partners of that plan [...] much faster than the rest of the world, and what the future holds – this is internation- ally recognised as one of the great- est problems facing humanity, and most certainly one of the most im- portant [...] ozone sonde. During the expe- dition, the sonde will be deployed once a week. The MOSAiC team on the shores of Ny-Ålesund following ocean survival training. At the time of the exercise the water temperature

internationally. All of this will be supported by a more strategic and dynamic integration of the Program and partners at the level of the RF E&E, of the Helmholtz Association as well as in the national, European [...] ocean system from the seafloor to the atmosphere. Atmosphere and Climate: The main objective of this Program was to gain a better understanding of the role of the atmosphere in the climate system. For this [...] Observatory of the Study of Arctic Climate MOSES Modular Observation Solutions for Earth Systems, an observing system of the Helmholtz Asso- ciation and a CTA of the RF E&E MoU Memorandum of Understanding

landmass, sending up to 150 times the flow of all the world’s rivers clockwise around the frozen continent. It connects all the other oceans, and is thought to play a key role in regulating natural climate swings [...] Southern Ocean
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the planet’s most powerful and arguably most important. It is the only one to flow clear around the globe without getting diverted by any landmass [...] swings that have repeatedly swept the earth for millions of years. But much is still not known about how it works, including how it might now respond to human-induced climate change.