• Long-term observations in the Arctic Ocean

    paths (blue), regions of AWI focus in orange and green. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Arctic is an environment where global climate change is strongly manifested. The Arctic Amplification,

  • Unique communities directly under the Arctic ice

    habitat for a variety of organisms. A research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute has now investigated what these organisms are and how they are affected by the melting ice in the northern Fram

  • Seismics

    Snow streamer (Photo: Olaf Eisen, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Subglacial conditions play a key role in the most dynamic parts of the ice sheet: ice streams, outlet glaciers [...] high Alpine saddle, Colle Gnifetti. Gimballed geophone (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Seismic data acquisition (seismics) is a technique to generate and record elastic or acoustic waves in the subsurface [...] marine seismic data collection. Seismics in west Greenland (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Difficult terrain (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Seismic waves penetrate through the ice sheet or shelf and are

  • Climate Modelling

    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 Arctic region. Simulations [...] 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 ; Dorn Klimanavigator arcticle

  • Bremen Senate Medal for Art and Science awarded to Prof. Antje Boetius

    In recognition of her services to science, to the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and to Bremen as a location for science, Prof. Antje Boetius has

  • Arctic Passion

    innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101003472 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In the Arctic the human-induced planetary warming already leads to changes that are faster here than anywhere else [...] Indigenous communities from 18 countries working together. The Alfred Wegener Institute coordinates the project, Michael Karcher (Sea Ice Physics section) is the scientific lead of the project. Contact

  • Greenland West

    Ice Sheet. Our working area in the eastern Baffin Bay (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut) Contact Dr. Boris Dorschel-Herr Dr. Catalina Gebhardt Cooperation partners Marum Geology Marum Paleontology ArcTrain

  • Development and dynamics of ice sheets

    Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice Sheet IBCSO_v1_digital_chart (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Little has been known about the long-term development especially of the WAIS, which as a marine based ice sheet

  • Large Igneous Provinces

    slope angles and vertical exaggeration refer to legend. 4 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Location of seismic profiles across the Mozambique Ridge collected during cruise So232 SLIP mit RV Sonne in 2014 [...] output rates (Q e ) the calculations are based on. 12 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 13 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Schematic sketch of the proposed emplacement model for the southern Mozambique

  • Formation of the Arctic Basin

    Ridge International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)