• Research to continue on Arctic amplification and its global impacts

      which also includes the Universities of Bremen and Cologne, the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS

    • Research vessel Polarstern sets course for the East Antarctic

      and will have a geoscientific focus, with researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute involved in both expeditions. The change of personnel and ship supply will take place in Hobart at the beginning

    • Filchner

      Filchner Location of AWS Filchner (Graphic: Google Earth) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The AWS Filchner is out of operation since December 2023. End of Dezember 2015 an automatic weather station was [...] the AWS as backup. Installing AWS Filchner 2015-12-28 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Yearly overview of AWS Filchner data (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The transmitted data show that the AWS

    • Boundary layer processes

      heights amount here to about 60 m (blue) and 500 m (red) (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut) The atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is the layer which is influenced by processes generated at the surface and [...] with drifting floes and small ridges at the floe edges. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The interaction of the lower atmosphere with sea ice and ocean is strongly influenced by processes caused by the [...] of kilometers. Illustration of processes over leads (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Leads play an important role for air ice interaction processes since the large differences between their surface

    • UN Ocean Treaty

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    • Intensification of Arctic Ocean eddy activity under global warming

      Ocean Eddies
      In a new study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) investigated the long-term changes in the Arctic Ocean eddy

    • New findings on pockmarks in the North Sea

      be the key to explaining pockmarks. Dr. Jasper Hoffmann from the Alfred Wegener institute, Helmholtz centre for polar and marine research (AWI), was part of this project. The University of Veterinary

    • Monitoring and Predicting Marine Biological Hazards

      hazard. The new joint project PrimePrevention, coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, has set itself the goal of developing new tools to help make society more aware of these hazards and prevent or

    • Research vessel Polarstern visits Australia for the first time

      the Polarstern: Between two expeditions to East Antarctica, the Alfred Wegener Institute's research icebreaker reached Hobart in Tasmania on 30 January 2024 and will remain there until 6 February. The

    • Marine heatwaves may amplify beyond expected trends

      journal Communications Earth & Environment by scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).