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The Arctic Ocean spans roughly 14 million square kilometers - about half the area of Africa – and is, at least partly, covered by sea-ice year-round. This ice cover plays a fundamental role in the Ear

Cristina Sans i Coll works as an aircraft engineer in the Logistics Department of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. Born in Barcelona, she rarely came in co

The Arctic sea ice is currently below the levels seen in 2022 but clearly above the record minimum from 2012. Every September, the Arctic sea-ice extent reaches its annual minimum. On 7 September the

Research aircraft from the Alfred Wegener Institute have been surveying the ice-covered Arctic Ocean for 30 years. The immense effort of the past 52 expeditions has paid off: 40,000 km of measurement