The Antarctic sea-ice extent was only 9.99 million km² 31 May 2023, putting it below the previous lowest extents on the same date, from the years 1986 and 2019. Sea ice extent is significantly below t
Together with the absolute minimum sea-ice extent, the monthly mean also reached a new low, as the extent was lower than last year’s minimum on 23 of 28 days. As reported in previous months, this year
The rapid decrease in sea-ice over the last six years is very surprising because the ice cover had hardly changed in the previous thirty-five years. This year the Antarctic sea ice was already at its
In April 2017, sea-ice physicist Stefanie Arndt from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven proved once again that necessity is the mother of invention: she and her colleagues were wondering how
In Bremerhaven, Starlink satellites have been successfully installed and tested for data transfers from buoys. The greatest challenge in integrating Starlink into autonomous monitoring systems was ene
These include data on sea-ice formation and dynamics in the Antarctic pack-ice belt. When the Federal Republic of Germany became a signing member of the Antarctic Treaty in 1979 and established the Ge
The sixth Assessment Report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR6) projects rapidly shrinking sea-ice cover for the Arctic in the summer months, with an ice-free Arctic a
On 1 January 2024, the sea-ice extent in the Arctic was 12.54 million square kilometres – just 70,000 square kilometres more than on the last day of December in 2016. New AWI study: The more the perce
Very little winter sea ice in the Arctic, trend of the past few months continues Slow summer melting in the Antarctic prevents above-average ice loss AWI researchers survey the distribution and origin
Development in the Arctic The slight upward trend following the Arctic minimum continued in early 2024; although the sea-ice extent was below the mean value for the years 1981 – 2010 at the beginning
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