in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. The international and interdisciplinary research team, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, focused on the summer melting of Arctic sea ice in three different regimes. The c

the scientific journal Nature Climate Change, led by ETH Zurich with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute.

atmosphere – as has now been revealed by new analyses of ancient DNA published by a team from the Alfred Wegener Institute in the journal Nature Geoscience. In the ocean around the Antarctic continent, these

of the Arctic, after the completion of a successful test run. Researchers and engineers of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have deployed the deep-sea crawler

Technology Transfer
Researchers of the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) will introduce their latest developments in the field of bionic lightweight design at Hannover Messe from 25 to 29 April 2016. Their

Good news from the Arctic
On 27 August 2017, deep-sea researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) recovered the underwater robot Tramper, which

surface is also playing an increasingly significant role. In a new study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute investigated how - caused by global warming - a 21 km 2 large meltwater lake formed

A new study, led by the Lancaster University and involving the Alfred Wegener Institute, reveals how, under extreme conditions, melt water flooding underneath the ice can force its way upwards through

core analyses and highly developed climate models, an international research team involving the Alfred Wegener Institute has now been able to fill this knowledge gap. This is important to better understand

energetics and mixing and their interdependence with sea ice in changing climate conditions) at the Alfred Wegener Institute want to investigate how these waves work in the Arctic, how they are related to sea