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The thickness of sea ice determines the heat exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere as well as the resistance against the deforming forces of wind and ocean currents. Already a thin layer of se

After the sea-ice extent in the Artic reached its winter maximum on 12 March 2019, the melting season in the North Pole region began and soon reached an all-time low for the time of year (23 April 201

With the return of the Russian research icebreaker “Akademik Treshnikov” to the port of Murmansk, Russia, another successful chapter in Russian-German collaborative Arctic research drew to a close. On

Accordingly, being familiar with the different types of sea ice is important for a range of activities, including navigation at sea, modelling the ice-ocean-atmosphere system, and the remote sensing o

The record-breaking journey began when Stefanie Arndt and Leonard Rossmann from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven placed the buoy on the

While Europe languished under a sweltering heat wave in the summer of 2019, Siberia was struck by massive wildfires, and record-breaking summer temperatures were observed in Germany. But the Arctic, t

During the MOSAiC expedition, researchers from 19 countries will study the Arctic throughout an entire year, spending the winter in a region that is virtually inaccessible in the polar night. Alone th

On 11 September the sea-ice extent (sea-ice concentration > 15 %) was 3.94 million km² (see Figure 1) and on 3 September 2019 it had already decreased to 3.82 million km², the lowest level so far this

The sea-ice extent in the Arctic is broadly considered to be an important indicator for the on-going climate change. This year, the month of October, in which the freezing season begins and new ice is

Sea-ice conditions in the first half of October 2019 In mid-September, the autumnal sea-ice formation process began in the western Arctic Ocean (see Figure 1). Sea ice extent is with 4.97 Mio. km² far