Our knowledge of the depth and shape of the Arctic Ocean floor – its bathymetry – is insufficient. Owing to year-round sea-ice coverage and the cost of research in this remote region, much of the ...
A newly released depth model of the Arctic Ocean seafloor has been published in Nature journal Scientific Data, marking a major milestone in polar bathymetry. The updated dataset, known as Version 4.0 ...
An international team of researchers has published the most detailed submarine map of the Artic Ocean. The study, which counts on the participation of the experts Miquel Canals, José Luis Casamor and ...
An international research team has recorded the deepest cold seeps ever documented in the Arctic, finding active gas hydrate ...
In 1999, the Alfred Wegener Institute launched an ambitious project: the HAUSGARTEN observatory in the Fram Strait between northeast Greenland and Svalbard. Spanning ice-covered waters and extending ...
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Sources:MarineTraffic (traffic in the Northern Sea Route); National Snow and Ice Data Center (ice extent); U.S. Geological Survey (oil and gas resources); the International Bathymetric Chart of the ...