• Ice Ocean Dynamics

      export freshwater. Major pathways of the export are the East Greenland Current and sea ice flux through Fram Strait. Inflow of saline water from the South is equivalent to a fresh water export. Fresh water from [...] satellite remote sensing and regional airborne sea ice thickness measurements. Oceanographic moorings in Fram Strait provide estimates of liquid fresh water transport. Once validated, the models can be used for [...] by the Transpolar Drift, which carries water and sea ice from the Siberian Shelves to exit at the Fram Strait, and the Beaufort Gyre, a large clockwise rotating gyre in the Canadian Basin (Fig 1). This

    • Little researched current impacting on winter sea ice in the Arctic

      that flows from Europe’s Norwegian Sea into the Arctic Ocean, passing through the Barents Sea and the Fram Strait in the process. However, not all the Atlantic water flowing into the Barents Sea reaches the

    • Central Arctic

      ships, e.g. Polarstern and air-supported spring expeditions, autonomous ice-tethered buoy systems like FRAM or MIDO have enabled a nearly year-round, Arctic basin-wide coverage of temperature and salinity profile

    • Pioneering research reveals Arctic matter pathways poised for major shifts amidst climate change

      fresh water, and suspended matter from the Siberian shelves across the central Arctic towards the Fram Strait channel, which connects to the Nordic Seas. This cross-Arctic flow influences the delivery

    • Molecular Biodiversity of Eukaryotic Microbes

      web (Graphic: Katja Metfies) Head of working group Dr. Katja Metfies HIFMB Cooperations HIFMB PEBCAO FRAM PrimePrevention MareExtreme Obama_Next Scientific approach Technology Projects Team

    • Foto/Video Systems

      trends in the biomass of three epibenthic invertebrates from the deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN (Fram Strait, Arctic Ocean). Marine Ecology Progress Series 602: 15-29. Taylor, J., Krumpen, T., Soltwedel [...] Meyer, K.S., Soltwedel, T., Bergmann, M. (2014): High biodiversity on a deep water reef in the eastern Fram Strait. PLOS One 9(8): e105424. Meyer, K., Bergmann, M., Soltwedel, T. (2013): Interannual variation

    • Heat from Below: How the Ocean is Wearing Down the Arctic Sea Ice

      later, when the ice has drifted towards Greenland via the North Pole and leaves the Arctic through Fram Strait. This study also includes data from the MOSAiC expedition.

    • Polarstern Returns to Bremerhaven

      such changes, the research teams on board the Polarstern investigated Atlantic Water Recirculation in Fram Strait and in the marginal ice zone north of Svalbard, as well as ocean/glacier interactions off the

    • Brochures and Reports

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    • ARCGATE

      2017. Figure 1: Mooring sites maintained during 2008-2009. The four major Arctic gateways (Davis, Fram, Bering Straits and BSO) are highlighted by orange circles. Each box shows length of observations [...] Tromsø, Norway and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany for western and eastern Fram Strait, respectively; the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) in Bergen, Norway for the Barents Sea [...] von Appen; Dr. B. Rabe; Prof. Dr. T. Kanzow; Dr. M. Karcher AWI and Arctic boundary PIs in Davis , Fram, Bering Straits and Barents Sea opening (BSO)