Alfred-Wegener-Institut
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
Fachbereich Klimawissenschaften
Sektion Physikalische Ozeanographie der Polarmeere

Address Bussestraße 24
27570 Bremerhaven
Deutschland

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27570 Bremerhaven

Projects

Research Grants
- Current projects
  - AEI-DFG Denmark Strait - Mixing and Sediment Dynamics
    (Applicants von Appen, Wilken Jon ; Frajka-Williams, Ph.D., Eleanor )
- Completed projects
  - Process study of vertical mixing near the sea floor inside the central valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge near 37°N
    (Applicant Kanzow, Ph.D., Torsten )
  - The Impact of Ocean Margin Processes in the Labrador Sea on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
    (Applicant Kanzow, Ph.D., Torsten )
Priority Programmes
- Completed projects
  - Access of Atlantic Water to East Greenland glaciers
    (Applicants Kanzow, Ph.D., Torsten ; Timmermann, Ralph )
Infrastructure Priority Programmes
- Completed projects
  - Sources and Variability of Weddell Sea Deep Water
    (Applicant Kanzow, Ph.D., Torsten )
  - WedUP: Weddell Gyre Upwelling and dynamical Processes
    (Applicant Reeve, Krissy )
CRC/Transregios
- Current projects
  - Coupling between atmosphere, mixed layer and pycnocline under Arctic amplification: the role of sea ice related processes
    (Project Heads Kanzow, Ph.D., Torsten ; Rhein, Monika ; Walter, Maren )
  - Interaction of meridional ocean heat transports and regional processes in the Arctic Ocean
    (Project Heads Gerdes, Rüdiger ; Kanzow, Ph.D., Torsten ; Salzmann, Marc )
- Completed projects
  - Energy transfers in gravity currents
    (Project Heads Kanzow, Ph.D., Torsten ; Losch, Ph.D., Martin ; Pollmann, Friederike )
Research Units
- Completed projects
  - FOR 1740: A New Approach toward Improved Estimates of Atlantic Ocean Freshwater Budgets and Transports as Part of the Global Hydrological Cycle
    (Spokesperson Stammer, Detlef )