Projects

The following projects are currently worked on in the research group for Remote Sensing of Polar Regions.

  • (AC)3 – Arctic Amplification: Climate Relevant Atmospheric and Surface Processes, Feedback, and Mechanisms [DFG]
  • CIMR – Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometern [ESA]

    • CIMR L2 PAD project
    • CIMR DEVALGO project GitHub website: https://github.com/CIMR-Algos
    • CIMRex – CIMR Airborne and MOSAiC Arctic campaigns [finished; 2018–2021]
    • CIMR Mission Performance Consolidation (CIMR-MRC) [finished; 2018–2019]
    • CIMR Mission Applications Study (CIMR-Apps) [finished; 2018–2019]

  • CRiceS – Climate relevant interactions and feedbacks: the key role of sea ice and snow in the polar and global climate system [EU H2020]
  • meereisportal.de – joined platform for sea ice information and data
  • MOSAiC – Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate
  • MOSAiCmicrowaveRS - Understanding snow and sea ice properties at microwave frequencies for remote sensing applications during MOSAiC [DFG]
  • WIVERN - Science Data Utilisation and Impact Study for Sea Ice [ESA]

Finished Projects

  • 2020 – 2023: IceSense – Remote Sensing of the Seasonal Evolution of Climate-relevant Sea Ice Properties [BMBF: MOSAiC Project]
  • 2019 – 2023: SIDRIFT – Sea Ice Deformation and Snow for an Arctic in Transition [RCN]
  • 2019 – 2023: FreshArc – Arctic freshwater export through Fram Strait in an era of Arctic Ocean freshening and sea ice thinning [RCN]
  • 2013 – 2022: ArcTrain International Research Training Group [DFG]
  • 2016 – 2022: INTAROS – Integrated Arctic Observing System [EU H2020]
  • 2017 – 2021: SITAnt – Sea ice type distribution in the Antarctic from microwave satellite observations [DFG]
  • 2015 – 2020: Cooperative junior research group for Remote Sensing of Sea Ice
  • 2012 – 2018: ESA CCI-SI – ESA Climate Change Initiative: Sea Ice
  • 2015 – 2018: SPICES – Space-borne observations for detecting and forecasting sea ice cover extremes
  • 2015 – 2017: N-ICE2015 – Norwegian Young Sea Ice Cruise
  • 2013 – 2017: CORESAT – Combined remote and in situ study of sea ice thickness and motion in the Fram Strait