• The dawn of the Antarctic ice sheets

      in its formation, as an international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now discovered: sediment samples from drill cores combined with complex climate and ice-sheet modelling show

    • Gerrit Lohmann

      Lohmann, Head of the Working Group Paleoclimate Dynamics at the Alfred Wegener Institute and Professor at the University of Bremen for the Department of Physics of the Climate System. Modeling Global

    • [Translate to English:] Kottas-Kohnen Traverse 2023

      Drone photo of the traverse convoy (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Skidoo set up for measuring and placing new bamboos (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Enjoying the view of the Kottas mountains (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Taking snow accumulation measurements across a 770 km traverse from the Antarctic coast to the plateau - Fyntan

    • From the Beginning to the Present

      : the catamaran Mya. In 1998, the BAH was integrated into the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. In 2008, the institute building was extensively renovated and

    • 100 years of Wadden Sea research in List on Sylt

      modern, fully equipped research station that has been part of the Alfred Wegener Institute since 1998. Today, the AWI Wadden Sea Station on Sylt is pursuing answers to what is likely the most important

    • Higher CO2 absorption in the Southern Ocean

      Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute, has found that the Southern Ocean around Antarctica absorbs more carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) than previously thought

    • Projects

      Firn core sampling, Antarctic Peninsula, January 2016 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) HEIBRiDS research projects HEIBRiDS research projects (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Interdisciplinary research [...] world in a climate model simulation (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Correlation of centennial temperature variations in Brussels with temperature variations in the rest of the world in a climate model simulation (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems: Research Foci Staff Labs and Methods Teaching and Education Projects

    • Coastal Waters Under Pressure

      could suffer as a result, warns a team of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science. To better understand these critical developments and potentially

    • Research

      climate scenarios. FRAM operations beneath the ice (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/FRAM/Sabine Lüdeling) FRAM - Our Work group is also involved in the context of the Arctic long-term observatory

    • Asymmetric development of the polar ice sheets changed ice age cycles

      before today: the so-called mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT). The Alfred Wegener Institute was involved in the study, which was published in the journal Science .