• Ocean biogeochemical modelling

    Surface chloropyll a concentration in an eddy-resolving simulation (1 km horizontal resolution) in the Fram Strait ( Schourup-Kristensen et al. 2021 ) Research Media echoes Members Publications Methods Projects

  • DOM

    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 Baffin Current [...] that the CDOM concentration (determined based on the absorption at 375nm) in the western part of the Fram Strait is strongly correlated to meteoric water (i.e. the fraction of fresh water signal, from continent) [...] ocean color. Chem. Rev . 107, 402–418. Dodd, P.A. et al. (2012). The freshwater composition of the Fram Strait outflow derived from a decade of tracer measurements. J. Geophys. Res . 117, C11005, doi: 10

  • Team - AWI OZA

    ecological role of marine mammals in the Arctic Ocean. Data stem from the interdisciplinary Arctic FRAM ocean observatory, which provides a unique opportunity to gain insight into these interrelationships [...] environmental alterations triggered by climate change, such as sea-ice decline. Using data collected in Fram Strait, I am investigating potential impacts of climate change on the acoustic presence of endemic [...] Patterns in the Acoustic Presence and Vocal Behaviour of Bowhead Whales (Balaena mysticetus) in Eastern Fram Strait Diandra Duengen (2019), Master Uni Oldenburg Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) distribution

  • Boundary layer processes

    for cold-air outbreaks in the Arctic are the Fram Strait and Barents Sea. The Figure shows an example of a cold-air outbreak with convection rolls over Fram Strait caused by a low pressure system over Svalbard [...] investigated. Impact of sea ice morphology on energy and momentum transport Marginal sea ice zone (Fram Strait, near Svalbard) with drifting floes and small ridges at the floe edges. (Photo: Alfred-Weg [...] Lüpkes, J. Hartmann, and M. Raschendorfer (2005), A case study on a polar cold air outbreak over Fram Strait using a mesoscale weather prediction model , Boundary Layer Meteorol. , 117 , 301–336, doi:

  • The benefits of models

    Alfred-Wegener-Institut) If we can realistically simulate the past and present processes at work in the Fram Strait, we can then calculate projections for the future. I work with FESOM, the Finite Element Sea [...] ocean currents, hydrography and sea ice. I’m currently using FESOM to simulate the circulation in the Fram Strait, which is located between Greenland and Svalbard and represents one of the most important

  • Ocean Acoustics Group - AWI OZA

    whales and seals and their underwater acoustic environment in the polar oceans, the Weddell Sea and Fram Strait in particular. To do so, we use long-term (multi-year) visual observations and passive acoustic

  • Boundary layer processes

    for cold-air outbreaks in the Arctic are the Fram Strait and Barents Sea. The Figure shows an example of a cold-air outbreak with convection rolls over Fram Strait caused by a low pressure system over Svalbard [...] investigated. Impact of sea ice morphology on energy and momentum transport Marginal sea ice zone (Fram Strait, near Svalbard) with drifting floes and small ridges at the floe edges. (Photo: Alfred-Weg [...] Lüpkes, J. Hartmann, and M. Raschendorfer (2005), A case study on a polar cold air outbreak over Fram Strait using a mesoscale weather prediction model, Boundary Layer Meteorol., 117, 301–336, doi:10

  • Main Research Topics

    whales and seals and their underwater acoustic environment in the polar oceans, the Weddell Sea and Fram Strait in particular. To do so, we use long-term (multi-year) visual observations and passive acoustic…

  • DP+PP-S5POC

    Sonja (2022) Phytoplankton pigment concentrations during POLARSTERN cruise PS121 from North Sea to Fram in August to September 2019. PANGAEA , doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.941011 Bracher, Astrid;

  • Projects

    ed by the land masses of North America, Greenland and… Find out more Arctic Long-term Observatory FRAM 5,000 metres seawater plus ice separate the seafloor from boisterous life in the upper water layers