tidal frequency), NIW: near-inertial waves (internal waves of near-inertial frequency). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Mission We aim to shed light on the various feedback processes between Arctic internal

software” Over the next two years, the project partners, the company Oceanloop Kiel GmbH and the Alfred- Wegener- Institute for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, will work together with one of the leading

winter convective events in the polar regions (Greenland Sea). (Photo: Gereon Budéus, AWI) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Basic demands were - deep profiles (typically 4000 m) - many profiles (typically 360

to interested scientists around the globe. Aurora Borealis at the Neumayer Station III (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) How long is your way to work? 1,5 kilometers. The entrance to the observatory Into

Helgoland". The "Biologische Anstalt Helgoland", originally founded in 1892, became part of the Alfred Wegener Institute in 1998. Scientific coordinator: Dr. Ingo Schewe Schedules Information for participants

of motion on unstructured meshes. The model is developed and supported by researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). See also FESOM on youtube .

yearly among the AWI sites Bremerhaven, Potsdam, Helgoland and Sylt. PhD Days 2018 on Sylt (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) AWI Science Meeting: During this one-day symposium, PhD students in their 3rd year

plenty of reasons for the experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute to take a closer look at the consequences of acidification. Fish swarm (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) How long have we known about the [...] Columbia University, USA, first coined the term “ocean acidification”. Bleached Acropora (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) How bad has the acidification become? The amount of carbonic acid in the ocean varies

airborne surveys to collect measurements of sea ice thickness in the Arctic conducted by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Airborne surveys provide insight into composition [...] Download Aircraft Polar 5 with an EM-Bird under its belly on its way to the surveying area. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Much of AWI’s research is conducted in the inaccessible, ice-covered regions of the [...] and Polar 6 research aircraft includes an EM-Bird, a laser scanner, and a snow radar. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The EM-Bird The purpose-built EM-Bird is a towed sensor that measures the combined

Stephan Juricke | Thomas Rackow | Dmitry Sein | Tido Semmler NAtMAP mesh_I_combined.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Amending North Atlantic Model Biases to Improve Arctic Predictions NAtMAP is an European [...] developments in the coastal zone. Nils Hutter | Martin Losch ZUWEISS initMIP_sim.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 1.5° target and the West Antarctic ice sheet ZUWEISS is a BMBF funded project in which [...] ual: about 4°C), scenarios which are available worldwide as well as new simulations with the Alfred Wegener Institute Climate Model (AWI-CM) and a state-of-the-art ice sheet model are combined. Paleo climate