The North Atlantic ocean around South Greenland is one of the few regions where oxygen-rich surface water sinks down to the deep ocean due to severe cooling, thus driving the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. (Photo: Julia Hager) The Atlantic Meridional...
Arctic sea ice will continue to retreat as warming increases. Heat transport through the newly described oceanic heat channel could even accelerate this process. Photo: Julia Hager The causes for the rapid warming of the North Atlantic and the Arctic Oceans seem...
Sea ice formation in the Arctic Ocean not only depends on air temperatures, but is also strongly influenced by incoming water masses from the North Atlantic Ocean, as researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have shown in two new studies. Photo: Julia Hager The...