• Helge Goessling

      Goessling (Gößling), climate physicist and group leader at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Polar predictions Climate modelling Sea ice IPCC Extreme events Free-access reprint link to the paper “Recent [...] development as possible, in the form of mathematical equations. The Alfred Wegener Institute has several decades of experience in ocean simulation and earned an international reputation for developing the

    • Projects

      Firn core sampling, Antarctic Peninsula, January 2016 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) HEIBRiDS research projects HEIBRiDS research projects (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Interdisciplinary research [...] world in a climate model simulation (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Correlation of centennial temperature variations in Brussels with temperature variations in the rest of the world in a climate model simulation (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems: Research Foci Staff Labs and Methods Teaching and Education Projects

    • Food Web Analysis - From sample to model

      edition Summer school in network analyses, edition 2016 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) header (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Aim of the course Introduction into food web analysis using the example [...] exercising simple modelling. Venue Wadden Sea Station on Sylt of the Alfred- Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung Target audience Advanced students, Bachelor,-Master- and PhD

    • [Translate to English:] Kottas-Kohnen Traverse 2023

      Drone photo of the traverse convoy (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Skidoo set up for measuring and placing new bamboos (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Enjoying the view of the Kottas mountains (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Taking snow accumulation measurements across a 770 km traverse from the Antarctic coast to the plateau - Fyntan

    • Whale Song Reveals Behavioural Patterns of Antarctic Minke Whales and Humpback Whales in the Weddell Sea

      no biologists on site to watch for the animals. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have now used permanently installed underwater microphones

    • Forecasting low flow conditions for the Elbe and Rhine:

      methods had been used. That is the conclusion researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) reached after testing their recently developed model for

    • How the seafloor of the Antarctic Ocean is changing – and the climate is following suit

      A team of international experts, led by geophysicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), has now shed new light on nine pivotal intervals in the

    • A sensational discovery: Traces of rainforests in West Antarctica

      international team of researchers led by geoscientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, have now provided a new and unprecedented perspective on the

    • Gigantic ocean heat reservoirs respond to rise in global CO2 and changes in the Atlantic conveyor belt

      patterns of the AMOC. In a recent study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute found that this change has led to asynchronous poleward shifts of the Atlantic subtropical gyre in response to

    • Finnigan-MAT Delta-S Mass Spectrometer

      isotope analytics–Mass spectrometry Finnigan-MAT Delta-S (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Two Finnigan MAT Delta-S Mass Spectrometers are used for Stable Water Isotope Analytics ( δ 18 O, δ D) in the