• Team - AWI OZA

    in the Arctic Ocean. Data stem from the interdisciplinary Arctic FRAM ocean observatory, which provides a unique opportunity to gain insight into these interrelationships. I strongly believe that a [...] climate change, such as sea-ice decline. Using data collected in Fram Strait, I am investigating potential impacts of climate change on the acoustic presence of endemic and seasonally migrating baleen [...] in acoustic biodiversity and distribution of marine mammals in Fram Strait, based on passive acoustic monitoring Jule Froehlic h (2021) , Bachelor Uni Oldenburg Evaluating the potential of AM-based

  • Main Research Topics

    acoustic environment in the polar oceans, the Weddell Sea and Fram Strait in particular. To do so, we use long-term (multi-year) visual observations and passive acoustic… Find out more Long-term

  • Boundary layer processes

    morphology on energy and momentum transport Marginal sea ice zone (Fram Strait, near Svalbard) with drifting floes and small ridges at the floe edges. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The interaction of [...] well. Typical regions for cold-air outbreaks in the Arctic are the Fram Strait and Barents Sea. The Figure shows an example of a cold-air outbreak with convection rolls over Fram Strait caused by a low [...] Raschendorfer (2005), A case study on a polar cold air outbreak over Fram Strait using a mesoscale weather prediction model , Boundary Layer Meteorol. , 117 , 301–336, doi: 10.1007/s10546-005-2189-1 . Hartmann

  • The benefits of models

    realistically simulate the past and present processes at work in the Fram Strait, we can then calculate projections for the future. I work with FESOM, the Finite Element Sea ice-Ocean Model, which is used [...] ice. I’m currently using FESOM to simulate the circulation in the Fram Strait, which is located between Greenland and Svalbard and represents one of the most important connections between the Arctic Ocean

  • Ocean Acoustics Group - AWI OZA

    acoustic environment in the polar oceans, the Weddell Sea and Fram Strait in particular. To do so, we use long-term (multi-year) visual observations and passive acoustic recordings. Our tasks: To

  • Arctic Zooplankton

    transpolar system of the Arctic Ocean: ( www.transdrift.info ) Fram: Frontiers in Arctic Monitoring Members of the working group PD. Dr. Barbara Niehoff (head) Dr. Astrid Cornils Magdalena Dolinkiewicz

  • DOM

    mobilized into the Arctic Ocean, leave the Arctic basin via the Fram Srait, following the East Greenland Current (EGC) and through the Davis Strait within the Baffin Current (BC) (e.g. Dodd et al., 2012 [...] based on the absorption at 375nm) in the western part of the Fram Strait is strongly correlated to meteoric water (i.e. the fraction of fresh water signal, from continent) (Stedmon et al., 2011; [...] 418. Dodd, P.A. et al. (2012). The freshwater composition of the Fram Strait outflow derived from a decade of tracer measurements. J. Geophys. Res . 117, C11005, doi: 10.1029/2012JC008011. Fichot, C.G.

  • Mobile pelagic Systems

    , T. (2016). Physics and Ecology in the Marginal Ice Zone of the Fram Strait – a Robotic Approach. PhD Thesis, University of Bremen. Wulff, T., Bauerfeind, E., von Appen, W.J. (2016). Physical and ecological processes at a moving ice edge in the Fram Strait as observed with an AUV. Deep-Sea Research I 115: 253-264. Wulff, U., Wulff, T. (2015). Correcting Navigation Data of

  • Modell Simulations

    the Arctic, that would be e.g. transport of ice or water through Fram Strait. AWI has collected long time series of measurements across the Fram which can be used for model validation. A thorough discussion

  • Ocean biogeochemical modelling

    an eddy-resolving simulation (1 km horizontal resolution) in the Fram Strait ( Schourup-Kristensen et al. 2021 ) Research Media echoes Members Publications Methods Projects Contact: Prof. Dr. Judith