The Arctic is warming two to three times faster than the rest of the world. This phenomenon is known as Arctic amplification. To understand this warming, the DFG-funded Transregional Collaborative Research Centre (AC)³ was established in 2016. It includes modelling and data analysis efforts as well as observational elements.
The project has generated a wealth of ground-, air-, shipand satellite-based data on the physical, chemical and meteorological properties of the Arctic atmosphere, cryosphere and upper ocean, which are available to the Arctic climate research community. Some 1700 data sets alone are stored on a freely accessible research data server, www.pangaea.de , which is operated by the University of Bremen and the Alfred Wegener Institute. ...
