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Hartmut Hellmer is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to the fields of Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. The scientist's work spans several subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The research topics covered by Hartmut Hellmer include:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Climate variability and models

The scientist has published in multiple venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • The Cryosphere

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Hartmut Hellmer include:

  • "Delayed Antarctic sea-ice decline in high-resolution climate change simulations," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Necessary Conditions for Warm Inflow Toward the Filchner Ice Shelf, Weddell Sea," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Exceptionally Warm and Prolonged Flow of Warm Deep Water Toward the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in 2017," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "FRIS Revisited in 2018: On the Circulation and Water Masses at the Filchner and Ronne Ice Shelves in the Southern Weddell Sea," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • "Observed interannual changes beneath Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf linked to large-scale atmospheric circulation," 2021, Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators in Hartmut Hellmer's publications include:

  • Verena Haid
  • Ralph Timmermann
  • Markus Janout
  • Özgür Gürses
  • Tore Hattermann

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Antarctic Ice Sheet melting in the southeast Pacific

    Stanley S. Jacobs;Hartmut H. Hellmer;Adrian Jenkins

  • A two-dimensional model for the thermohaline circulation under an ice shelf

    Hartmut Hellmer;Dirk Olbers

  • Substantial advective iron loss diminishes phytoplankton production in the Antarctic Zone

    Mario Hoppema;Mario Hoppema;Hein J. W. de Baar;Eberhard Fahrbach;Hartmut H. Hellmer

  • The Importance of Sea Ice: An Overview

    Gerhard S. Dieckmann;Hartmut H. Hellmer

  • Impact of Antarctic ice shelf basal melting on sea ice and deep ocean properties

    Hartmut Hellmer

  • A numerical model of the Weddell Sea: Large scale circulation and water mass distribution

    Aike Beckmann;Hartmut H. Hellmer;Ralph Timmermann

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

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

  • The Weddell Gyre, Southern Ocean: Present Knowledge and Future Challenges

    M. Vernet;Walter Geibert;Mario Hoppema;P.J. Brown

  • Ice-shelf basal melting in a global finite-element sea-ice/ice-shelf/ocean model

    Ralph Timmermann;Qiang Wang;Hartmut Hellmer

  • The Amundsen Sea and the Antarctic Ice Sheet

    Stanley S. Jacobs;A. Jenkins;Hartmut H. Hellmer;Claudia F. Giulivi

  • Southern Ocean warming and increased ice shelf basal melting in the twenty-first and twenty-second centuries based on coupled ice-ocean finite-element modelling

    Ralph Timmermann;Hartmut H. Hellmer

  • A consistent data set of Antarctic ice sheet topography, cavity geometry, and global bathymetry

    Ralph Timmermann;A. Le Brocq;T. Deen;E. Domack

  • The occurrence of ice platelets at 250 m depth near the Filchner Ice Shelf and its significance for sea ice biology

    G. Dieckmann;G. Rohardt;H. Hellmer;J. Kipfstuhl

  • Deep and bottom water of the Weddell Sea's western rim

    Arnold L. Gordon;Bruce A. Huber;Hartmut H. Hellmer;Amy Ffield

  • Oceanic Erosion of a Floating Antarctic Glacier in the Amundsen Sea

    Hartmut H. Hellmer;Stanley S. Jacobs;Adrian Jenkins

  • Projecting Antarctic ice discharge using response functions from SeaRISE ice-sheet models

    Anders Levermann;Anders Levermann;R. Winkelmann;Sophie Nowicki;J. L. Fastook

  • Future Projections of Antarctic Ice Shelf Melting Based on CMIP5 Scenarios

    Kaitlin A. Naughten;Katrin J. Meissner;Benjamin K. Galton-Fenzi;Matthew H. England

  • Glaciological and oceanographic evidence of high melt rates beneath Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica

    Adrian Jenkins;David G. Vaughan;Stanley S. Jacobs;Hartmut H. Hellmer

  • Simulations of ice‐ocean dynamics in the Weddell Sea 1. Model configuration and validation

    Ralph Timmermann;A. Beckmann;Hartmut Hellmer

  • Projections of ice shelf basal melting in a global finite element sea ice - ice shelf - ocean model

    Ralph Timmermann;Hartmut Hellmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralph Timmermann
Ralph Timmermann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Tore Hattermann
Tore Hattermann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Frank Kauker
Frank Kauker Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Marthán N Bester
Marthán N Bester University of Pretoria
Gerhard Dieckmann
Gerhard Dieckmann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Adrian Jenkins
Adrian Jenkins Durham University
Stanley S. Jacobs
Stanley S. Jacobs Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Eberhard Fahrbach
Eberhard Fahrbach Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Svein Østerhus
Svein Østerhus Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Wolfgang Roether
Wolfgang Roether University of Bremen

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