• FLO CHAR

    Land to Ocean: How Coastal Habitats in the Arctic Respond" (FLO CHAR) focuses on the biogeochemical effects of climate change on the most rapidly evolving ecosystem on Earth, the shallow Arctic coastal [...] the Arctic is dramatically altering terrestrial and marine environments and will have cascading influences on all ecosystems and infrastructure on which local communities rely. Particularly Arctic coastal [...] sit at the interface between the warming land and ocean. At the same time coastal and near-shore zones are the most understudied regions of the Arctic marine realm. One critical area that has been affected

  • Artemics

    mixing in the warming Arctic. The current, relatively weak mixing processes in the interior Arctic Ocean are the life insurance for its sea ice: The waters entering the Arctic Ocean from the Atlantic are [...] to shed light on the various feedback processes between Arctic internal waves and sea ice and the ramifications for ocean dynamics in the Arctic and beyond. Climate models do not resolve the small and [...] d in a physics-based way in the Arctic. We will close this research gap and thereby contribute to improving climate projections. News How waves stir up the Arctic Ocean - new Emmy Noether Group… Waves

  • Completed Projects

    increased to 1 km in the whole Arctic Ocean and further refined to subkilometer scales at the MOSAiC sites. The decades-long eddy-resolving model results for the Arctic Ocean and the well-evaluated and documented [...] variability of the Arctic Ocean and the cryosphere on time scales of decades to millennia and to use these results to robustly assess the impact of projected future climate changes on the Arctic. Deniz Aydin [...] Changing Arctic" (EPICA) is a BMBF funded project that will use high-resolution modeling and observations to understand the properties and impacts of (sub)mesoscale eddies in the Arctic Ocean, especially

  • Labs

    learning and deep learning for permafrost region remote sensing applications Remote sensing of Arctic Ocean Color Upscaling of permafrost region field measurements with remote sensing Generating permafrost

  • Melanie Bergmann

    MB Media Euronews (Video) | 02.06.2023 Cleaning up the oceans: Is it too little, too late? Find out more > Eye on the Arctic | 25.04.2023 Arctic ice algae highly polluted with microplastics, poses food [...] are available to the general public. Melanie Bergmann (AWI): Litter and Microplastics Invade the Arctic Ocean (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact Melanie Bergmann +49(471)4831-1739 E-Mail CV Social Media [...] Google Scholar Photo Download Biologin Dr. Melanie Bergmann. jpg | 3 MB Melanie Bergmann counts Arctic Ocean plastic, jpg | 363 KB Melanie Bergmann analyses marine litter in, jpg | 3 MB Melanie Bergmann

  • Permafrost Change

    of a permafrost landscape How do you imagine an Arctic landscape characterized by permafrost? The answer is visualized by a 3-dimensional print of an Arctic landscape in Northeast Siberia, the Bykovsky Peninsula [...] ‘before-and-after’ lenticular images, together with video and audio recordings from expeditions to the Arctic, will help illustrate the thawing of the permafrost, and the fieldwork involved in investigating [...] ice melts on slopes. As a result, sediments and plant remains are transported into rivers and the ocean, thereby changing the biochemistry of the water. The data were collected by Gonçalo Vieira und Pedro

  • Ingo Sasgen

    roughly two-thirds of global sea-level rise; the remaining third is primarily due to the warming of the oceans, which causes seawater to expand. Accordingly, the development of our planet’s ice sheets and glaciers [...] and that ice-loss processes have been set in motion that will have lasting consequences. In the Arctic, temperatures are rising twice as quickly as the global average; as a result, the Greenland ice sheet’s

  • Permafrost Resources

    the Canadian Arctic” is a project of the research group PermaRisk , which is led by Moritz Langer , and was published in 2020. Digital stories invite you to travel to the Canadian Arctic. Visual impressions [...] system. The background is the IPCC Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere (SROCC) , which was published in 2019. Hugues Lantuit: Collapsing Arctic coastlines | Horizons 2019 Presentation This presentation [...] these four pages. Julia Boike, Alfred Wegener Institute, Permafrost, Arctic Circle 2015 Presentation This presentation was held at the Arctic Circle Conference in October 2015. Julia Boike talks about the

  • Knowledge Transfer

    Europe? What observations in the Arctic and Antarctic are most urgently needed to improve our understanding, models, and predictions of the atmosphere, sea ice, and ocean? Storylines and Climate Services [...] day – and it is not the same each day! Consider a summer day somewhere in Europe with an Atlantic ocean breeze, and compare it to a day influenced by winds blowing from the continent. The latter will tend [...] more strongly affected by climate change, simply because the continents warm more strongly than the oceans. Can we be more specific? Yes! By using a climate model in a special way, where the winds are forced

  • Iceflux

    flux in polar oceans In both Polar Regions, areas covered by sea ice are shrinking due to climate warming. What are the consequences of sea ice decline in the Arctic and the Antarctic Ocean? Answering this [...] and nature conservation in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans under environmental change. The research project investigates ice-covered deep-sea ecosystems in the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice zones. Iceflux