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Overview

Frank Kauker is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research primarily falls within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Atmospheric Science as the predominant subfield. Additional areas of study include Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work covers multiple key topics, including:

  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Arctic and Russian Policy Studies

Notable recent publications by Frank Kauker include the following:

  • "The MOSAiC ice floe: sediment-laden survivor from the Siberian shelf," 2020, published in The Cryosphere
  • "Evidence for an increasing role of ocean heat in Arctic winter sea ice growth," 2021, Journal of Climate
  • "Under-Ice Light Field in the Western Arctic Ocean During Late Summer," 2022, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Impact of Sea-Ice Model Complexity on the Performance of an Unstructured-Mesh Sea-Ice/Ocean Model under Different Atmospheric Forcings," 2021, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Ensemble-based estimation of sea-ice volume variations in the Baffin Bay," 2021, The Cryosphere

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Frank Kauker encompass:

  • Robert Ricker
  • Qinghua Yang
  • Michael Kärcher
  • Marcel Nicolaus
  • Lorenzo Zampieri

The scientist's publications commonly appear in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Cryosphere
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Climate

Best Publications

  • Regional Climate Information—Evaluation and Projections

    F. Giorgi;J. Christensen;M. Hulme;H. von Storch

  • Twenty-first-century warming of a large Antarctic ice-shelf cavity by a redirected coastal current

    Hartmut H. Hellmer;Frank Kauker;Ralph Timmermann;Jürgen Determann

  • One More Step Toward a Warmer Arctic

    Igor V. Polyakov;Agnieszka Beszczynska;Eddy C. Carmack;Igor A. Dmitrenko

  • Arctic warming: Evolution and spreading of the 1990s warm event in the Nordic seas and the Arctic Ocean

    Michael J. Karcher;Rüdiger Gerdes;Frank Kauker;Cornelia Köberle

  • An assessment of Arctic Ocean freshwater content changes from the 1990s to the 2006―2008 period

    Benjamin Rabe;Michael Karcher;Ursula Schauer;John M. Toole

  • Arctic Ocean basin liquid freshwater storage trend 1992–2012

    Benjamin Rabe;Michael Karcher;Frank Kauker;Ursula Schauer

  • Modeling decadal variability of the Baltic Sea: 2. Role of freshwater inflow and large-scale atmospheric circulation for salinity

    H. E. Markus Meier;Frank Kauker

  • The Fate of the Southern Weddell Sea Continental Shelf in a Warming Climate

    Hartmut H. Hellmer;Frank Kauker;Ralph Timmermann;Tore Hattermann

  • An assessment of ten ocean reanalyses in the polar regions

    Petteri Uotila;Hugues Goosse;Keith Haines;Matthieu Chevallier

  • Water properties and circulation in Arctic Ocean models

    G. Holloway;F. Dupont;E. Golubeva;S. Häkkinen

  • An intercomparison of Arctic ice drift products to deduce uncertainty estimates

    Hiroshi Sumata;Thomas Lavergne;Fanny Girard-Ardhuin;Noriaki Kimura

  • Adjoint analysis of the 2007 all time Arctic sea‐ice minimum

    Frank Kauker;T. Kaminski;Michael Karcher;R. Giering

  • Recent changes in Arctic Ocean circulation revealed by iodine-129 observations and modeling

    Michael Karcher;John N. Smith;Frank Kauker;Rüdiger Gerdes

  • Arctic pathways of Pacific Water: Arctic Ocean Model Intercomparison experiments

    Yevgeny Aksenov;Michael Karcher;Andrey Proshutinsky;Rüdiger Gerdes

  • Arctic Ocean change heralds North Atlantic freshening

    M. Karcher;R. Gerdes;F. Kauker;C. Köberle

  • On the dynamics of Atlantic Water circulation in the Arctic Ocean

    Michael Karcher;Frank Kauker;Rüdiger Gerdes;E. Hunke

  • Variability of Arctic and North Atlantic sea ice: A combined analysis of model results and observations from 1978 to 2001

    Frank Kauker;Rüdiger Gerdes;Michael Karcher;Cornelia Köberle

  • The MOSAiC ice floe: sediment-laden survivor from the Siberian shelf

    Thomas Krumpen;Florent Birrien;Frank Kauker;Thomas Rackow

  • Adrift in the Beaufort Gyre: A Model Intercomparison

    M. Steele;W. Ermold;S. Häkkinen;D. Holland

  • Causes and development of repeated Arctic Ocean warming events

    Rüdiger Gerdes;Michael J. Karcher;Frank Kauker;Ursula Schauer

  • Modeling decadal variability of the Baltic Sea: 1. Reconstructing atmospheric surface data for the period 1902–1998

    Frank Kauker;H. E. M. Meier

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Karcher
Michael Karcher Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Rüdiger Gerdes
Rüdiger Gerdes Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Rüdiger Gerdes
Rüdiger Gerdes Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Ursula Schauer
Ursula Schauer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Ralph Timmermann
Ralph Timmermann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Hartmut Hellmer
Hartmut Hellmer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Benjamin Rabe
Benjamin Rabe Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
John M. Toole
John M. Toole Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Andrey Proshutinsky
Andrey Proshutinsky Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Annette Rinke
Annette Rinke Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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