Unusual cold spell in the stratosphere creates conditions for severe ozone depletion in the Arctic

weather development in the Arctic leads to ozone depletion. According to the researchers of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, in the past weeks an extreme cold

Alfred Wegener Institute on Oceanology International

Technology Transfer
The Alfred Wegener Institute participates in the Oceanology International, one of the world's leading marine science and ocean technology exhibition and conference. It is held in

Six to ten million years ago: Ice-free summers at the North Pole

Climate History
An international team of scientists led by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have managed to open a new window into the climate history

Roofing Ceremony at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam

Roofing Ceremony
The construction work on the new annexe of the AWI Potsdam (Telegrafenberg) is right on schedule. AWI's construction project manager Elke Meißner announced this good news at the of

Official Opening of Palau Atmospheric Observatory

StratoClim
Today the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Institute for Environmental Physics of the University Bremen officially open their Palau

A glance into the future of the Arctic

is the result of a study carried out by an international research team in cooperation with the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), which will be published in the

The Arctic is facing a decline in sea ice that might equal the negative record of 2012

Arctic sea ice
Sea ice physicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), are anticipating that the sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean this summer may

Daily up and down of the plankton animals in the sea

zooplankton communities: scientists of the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries in Hamburg and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven observed changes during the year and between years. The Antarctic z

Research vessel Polarstern expected in Bremerhaven

a good six months of Antarctic expeditions. In the austral summer, the research vessel of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), penetrated into the southern

Pacific stores the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide at depths of thousands of metres

New Ice Age Knowledge
An international team of researchers headed by scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute has gained new insights into the carbon dioxide exchange between ocean and atmosphere