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largest marine research alliances. The DAM aims to strengthen the sustainable use of coasts, seas and oceans through research and transfer, data management and digitalisation, and by coordinating the infra [...] Survey United Kingdom University of Alaska Fairbanks United States Norwegian Polar Institute Norway Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) Russia University of Tromso (UiT) Norway IFREMER France Woods

Polarstern Core Repository The section Marine Geology curates and archives sediment cores from both polar oceans which were taken by RV Polarstern since 1983. The collection comprises more than 4000 cores from [...] Roberts Project are also maintained by the AWI repository. Lacustrine sediments cored from lakes in the Arctic and Antarctic are archived by the section Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems at AWI Potsdam

understand that the ocean system does not act as one body. The upper ocean (> 700 m depth) and the deeper ocean ( 3800 0.79 – 1.7 34.7 – 34.8 27.85 In the previous section, changes in ocean heat content and [...] 00 Objectives Ocean and shelf seas are pivotal to the future of humankind. Currently oceans provide roughly 20 % of the protein consumed by humans. The world GDP is mainly based on ocean economical aspects [...] than ever in order to secure earths´ future oceans as a sustainable resource. We aim to train ocean experts to address the sustainability of our global ocean, promoting excellence and moral sounding. In

climate state. doi: 10.1038/NGEO2974 . How the Arctic Ocean became saline FS Heincke in Spitsbergen (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [06 June 2017] The Arctic Ocean was once a gigantic freshwater lake. Only [...] Atlantic-Arctic Ocean circulation controlled by the subsidence of the Greenland-Scotland Ridge. Nature Communications. doi: 10.1038/NCOMMS15681 . 2016 Intensification and poleward shift of oceanic boundary [...] present the ocean surface net heat flux. Positive values mean that the ocean release heat to the atmosphere, and [28 June 2016] Global warming results in fundamental changes to important ocean currents.

matter within the rivers and oceans would allow to better assess the export, transformation and fate of tDOM (the largest fraction of dissolved carbon in the Arctic) in the ocean. Colored or chromophoric dissolved [...] supplied by Arctic rivers, which account for more than 10% of the total riverine and terrestrial organic carbon into the global ocean waters (Opshal et al., 1999; Benner et al., 2004). Most of the Arctic outflow [...] outflow and, as a consequence, the total carbon mobilized into the Arctic Ocean, leave the Arctic basin via the Fram Srait, following the East Greenland Current (EGC) and through the Davis Strait within the

Research: Oceans, 106(C9), 19939–19956. doi.org/10.1029/1999JC000308 Volk, T., & Hoffert, M. I. (1985). Ocean Carbon Pumps: Analysis of Relative Strengths and Efficiencies in Ocean-Driven Atmospheric [...] plankton and the rest of the oceanic food web is offered by Figure 2 below. Figure 2 | Model of interactions between the different types of plankton and the rest of the oceanic food web. This scheme envisions [...] dioxide that exists between the Earth's atmosphere and the oceans causes diffusion phenomena by which CO2 molecules reach the surface of the oceans and dissolve among the waves. Although interaction with

which are a set of ocean and sea ice variables optimally combining observations and a model. The analysis fields are applied for a variety of ocean and sea ice studies in the Arctic Ocean, and also provide [...] used to synthesize model results and observed data in the Arctic Ocean. The systems have been successfully applied to North Atlantic/Arctic Ocean Sea Ice Model (NAOSIM) developed at the Alfred Wegener Institute [...] Institute (AWI). We are currently working to apply the systems to Finite-volumE Sea ice-Ocean Model (FESOM2), also developed in AWI. Contact: Dr. Hiroshi Sumata Seasonal cycle (left) and interannual variation

sea surface temperature observations to constrain upper ocean properties in an Arctic sea ice-ocean data assimilation system. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans , 124, 4723-4743, doi:10.1029/2019JC015073 Pradhan, H [...] unstructured-grid ocean model under Earth System Modeling Framework, Ocean Modelling, 102546, ​ doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2025.102546 . Bunsen, F., J. Hauck, L. Nerger, S. Torres-Valdés. (2025) Ocean carbon sink [...] (2018) Arctic-wide sea-ice thickness estimates from combining satellite remote sensing data and a dynamic ice-ocean model with data assimilation during the CryoSat-2 period. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans , 123