• Southern Ocean - Overturning Circulation

    of the global circulation from Rick Lumpkin and Kevin Speer, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 2007. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Southern Ocean forms a continuous ring of water around Antarctica, which connects

  • CRiceS

    Atmospheric Physics, Potsdam: Dr. Marion Maturilli, Dr. Sandro Dahlke AWI PI: Dr. Marion Maturilli, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A45N, 14473 Potsdam

  • Proposals

    Advisory Board User Advisory Board Smaller vessels Expeditions with the smaller vessels of the Alfred Wegener Institute require shorter periods of planning. We do, though, recommend to submit proposals in [...] internal application procedure can be found here . Neumayer Station III, Ekström Ice Shelf (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / U. Cieluch) Arctic Land Expeditions (Svalbard, Greenland, Canada, Alaska) - ARC-Land

  • Climate Modelling

    atmosphere model Simulated atmospheric river event in mid-November 2019 during MOSAiC (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The ICON model ( Zängl et al., 2015 ) is set up in limited area mode (LAM) over the [...] M atmosphere-ice-ocean model Simulated September sea-ice extent from HIRHAM-NAOSIM (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) HIRHAM-NAOSIM is a coupled regional climate model for the Arctic ( Dorn et al., 2019

  • FISP

    with the locations of the instrumented bore holes, operated by the British Antarctic Survey, the Alfred Wegener Institute, and the University of Bergen. Arrows indicated the current pass of warm waters of

  • S5POC+Innovation

    colour products for the TROPOMI instrument on the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite. S5POC, lead by Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), was carried out with the University

  • Research program

    affecting sea-ice cover, ocean circulation, atmospheric conditions and finally coastal areas. The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) is fully committed to addressing global environmental challenges as part of the

  • Q and A

    pic_SoNoAT19.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Am I eligible? The target beneficiaries are 25 future ocean experts. The programme will focus on training postgraduate students (Masters or PhD) in ma

  • Chemistry & Ozone

    faster in calculating the 24h-tendency of ozone compared to the full chemistry model. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The SWIFT model is a fast scheme for simulating the chemistry of stratospheric ozone [...] Gathen Launch of an ozonesonde at the AWIPEV research base on Svalbard. (Photo: Jürgen Graeser (Alfred-Wegener-Institut))

  • Information on employment

    Information on employment Pay Since 2011, the Alfred Wegener Institute has functioned according to the Collective Agreement for the Public Service of the Federation (TVöD Bund), which will usually also