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Overview

Gunnar Spreen is affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany and conducts research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work focuses extensively on Atmospheric Science, with additional contributions to Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, Aerospace Engineering, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Climate variability and models
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Gunnar Spreen include:

  • "Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Snow and sea ice," 2022, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • "Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Physical oceanography," 2022, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • "Arctic Sea Ice Volume Export Through Fram Strait From 1992 to 2014," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • "MOSAiC drift expedition from October 2019 to July 2020: sea ice conditions from space and comparison with previous years," 2021, The Cryosphere
  • "Evaluation of a New Merged Sea-Ice Concentration Dataset at 1 km Resolution from Thermal Infrared and Passive Microwave Satellite Data in the Arctic," 2020, Remote Sensing

Frequent co-authors associated with Spreen's publications are:

  • Marcus Huntemann
  • Stefan Hendricks
  • Linda Thielke
  • Rasmus Tonboe
  • Marcel Nicolaus

Key publication venues where Spreen regularly appears include:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Sea ice remote sensing using AMSR‐E 89‐GHz channels

    G. Spreen;L. Kaleschke;G. Heygster

  • Arctic freshwater export: Status, mechanisms, and prospects

    Thomas W.N. Haine;Beth Curry;Rüdiger Gerdes;Edmond Hansen

  • Trends in Arctic sea ice drift and role of wind forcing: 1992–2009

    Gunnar Spreen;Ron Kwok;Dimitris Menemenlis

  • Arctic sea ice circulation and drift speed: Decadal trends and ocean currents

    R. Kwok;G. Spreen;S. Pang

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  • The Arctic Cloud Puzzle: Using ACLOUD/PASCAL Multiplatform Observations to Unravel the Role of Clouds and Aerosol Particles in Arctic Amplification

    Manfred Wendisch;Andreas Macke;André Ehrlich;Christof Lüpkes

  • Leads in Arctic pack ice enable early phytoplankton blooms below snow-covered sea ice

    Philipp Assmy;Mar Fernández-Méndez;Pedro Duarte;Amelie Meyer

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  • Fram Strait sea ice volume export estimated between 2003 and 2008 from satellite data

    Gunnar Spreen;Gunnar Spreen;Stefan Kern;Detlef Stammer;Edmond Hansen

  • Evidence of Arctic sea ice thinning from direct observations

    Angelika H. H. Renner;Sebastian Gerland;Christian Haas;Gunnar Spreen

  • Snow Depth Retrieval on Arctic Sea Ice From Passive Microwave Radiometers—Improvements and Extensions to Multiyear Ice Using Lower Frequencies

    Philip Rostosky;Gunnar Spreen;Sinead L. Farrell;Torben Frost

  • Thin ice and storms: Sea ice deformation from buoy arrays deployed during N-ICE2015

    Polona Itkin;Gunnar Spreen;Gunnar Spreen;Bin Cheng;Martin Doble

  • Arctic Research on Thin Ice: Consequences of Arctic Sea Ice Loss

    Mats A. Granskog;Philipp Assmy;Sebastian Gerland;Gunnar Spreen

  • SMOS sea ice product: operational application and validation in the Barents Sea marginal ice zone

    Lars Kaleschke;Xiangshan Tian-Kunze;Nina Maaß;Alexander Beitsch

  • Winter storms accelerate the demise of sea ice in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean.

    Robert M. Graham;Polona Itkin;Amelie Meyer;Amelie Meyer;Arild Sundfjord

  • Floating ice-algal aggregates below melting arctic sea ice.

    Philipp Assmy;Jens K. Ehn;Mar Fernández-Méndez;Mar Fernández-Méndez;Haakon Hop

  • Delivering Sustained, Coordinated, and Integrated Observations of the Southern Ocean for Global Impact

    Louise Newman;Petra Heil;Petra Heil;Rowan Trebilco;Rowan Trebilco;Katsuro Katsumata

  • Method for detection of leads from Sentinel-1 SAR images

    Dmitrii Murashkin;Gunnar Spreen;Marcus Huntemann;Wolfgang Fritz Otto Dierking

  • Arctic Sea Ice Volume Export Through Fram Strait From 1992 to 2014

    Gunnar Spreen;Gunnar Spreen;Laura de Steur;Dmitry Divine;Sebastian Gerland

  • MOSAiC drift expedition from October 2019 to July 2020: sea ice conditions from space and comparison with previous years

    Thomas Krumpen;Luisa von Albedyll;Helge F. Goessling;Stefan Hendricks

  • X-, C-, and L-band SAR signatures of newly formed sea ice in Arctic leads during winter and spring

    A. Malin Johansson;Camilla Brekke;Gunnar Spreen;Gunnar Spreen;Jennifer A. King

  • Recent summer sea ice thickness surveys in Fram Strait and associated ice volume fluxes

    T. Krumpen;R. Gerdes;C. Haas;S. Hendricks

Frequent Co-Authors

Sebastian Gerland
Sebastian Gerland Norwegian Polar Institute
Stefan Hendricks
Stefan Hendricks Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Lars Kaleschke
Lars Kaleschke Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Mats A. Granskog
Mats A. Granskog Norwegian Polar Institute
Christian Haas
Christian Haas Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Edmond Hansen
Edmond Hansen Norwegian Polar Institute
Marcel Nicolaus
Marcel Nicolaus Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Julienne Stroeve
Julienne Stroeve University of Manitoba
Lars Henrik Smedsrud
Lars Henrik Smedsrud University of Bergen
Alfonso Saiz-Lopez
Alfonso Saiz-Lopez Spanish National Research Council

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