• Long-Term Observations in the Southern Ocean

      floats while drifting in open waters (wiggled segments) and under ice (linear segments). (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Along their tracks they collect profiles of temperature and salinity between 2000m [...] trajectory of a single float. Note the near-surface warming event in austral summer 2016/17 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Mapping the temperature and salinity profiles of many floats to specific surfaces (e [...] entire time period from objective mapping of float data. (From Reeve et al., 2016) (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) More advanced analysis techniques even allow quantities estimates the transports associated

    • Research vessel Polarstern sets course for the East Antarctic

      will be led by Kiel University 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

    • Monitoring and Predicting Marine Biological Hazards

      masse, posing a biological 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

    • Plastic debris in the Arctic comes from all around the world – including Germany

      plastic debris that had washed up on the shores of Svalbard. This has now been analysed by the Alfred Wegener Institute. According to the findings, one third of the plastic debris which still bore imprints

    • New Method Makes It Possible to Measure Arctic Sea-ice Thickness, Even in Summer

      surface make it difficult to apply. An international team of researchers including experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute has now developed a method that, for the first time, makes it possible to identify

    • In East Siberia, Extreme Wildfires are on the Rise

      wildfires in the region, a team of researchers led by Ramesh Glückler and Elisabeth Dietze from the Alfred Wegener Institute has now investigated the connections between wildfire activity and forest structures

    • Getting to the Bottom of El Niño

      researchers led by Gabriel M. Pontes from the University of São Paulo and including experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute recently studied ENSO’s characteristics and behaviour. The consortium has just presented

    • Drought risk in the Northern Hemisphere rises with intensified warming

      Northern Hemisphere. An international team of scientists led by climate researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute arrive at this conclusion in a new study released today in the journal npj Climate

    • Sulfur promotes carbon storage in the Black Sea

      y high volume of organic carbon. A team of researchers led by Dr Gonzalo Gomez-Saez from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and Dr Jutta Niggemann from the

    • Final Report of the High-Tech Forum 2019–2021

      ions for the future innovation strategy in Germany. Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research is a member of the central committee