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Marcel Nicolaus is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Food Science.

The scientist's work addresses main topics including Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, methane hydrates and related phenomena, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, food industry and aquatic biology, and Arctic and Russian policy studies.

Recent publications by Marcel Nicolaus include the following papers:

  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Snow and sea ice, 2022, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Atmosphere, 2022, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Physical oceanography, 2022, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Arctic Report Card 2020: The MOSAiC Expedition: A Year Drifting with the Arctic Sea Ice, 2020, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - NOAA Central Library
  • The MOSAiC ice floe: sediment-laden survivor from the Siberian shelf, 2020, The Cryosphere

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Marcel Nicolaus are:

  • Mario Hoppmann
  • Ruibo Lei
  • Hans Jakob Belter
  • Benjamin Rabe
  • Christian Katlein

Marcel Nicolaus regularly publishes in scientific venues such as:

  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • The Cryosphere
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Scientific Data

Best Publications

  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition—Atmosphere

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  • Export of Algal Biomass from the Melting Arctic Sea Ice

    Antje Boetius;Sebastian Albrecht;Karel Bakker;Christina Bienhold

  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition

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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

  • Changes in Arctic sea ice result in increasing light transmittance and absorption

    Marcel Nicolaus;Christian Katlein;J. Maslanik;Stefan Hendricks

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

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

  • Increasing frequency and duration of Arctic winter warming events

    Robert M. Graham;Lana Cohen;Alek A. Petty;Alek A. Petty;Linette N. Boisvert;Linette N. Boisvert

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  • A transitioning Arctic surface energy budget: the impacts of solar zenith angle, surface albedo and cloud radiative forcing

    Joseph Sedlar;Michael Tjernström;Thorsten Mauritsen;Matthew D. Shupe

  • Photosynthetic production in the central Arctic Ocean during the record sea-ice minimum in 2012

    Mar Fernández-Méndez;Christian Katlein;Benjamin Rabe;Marcel Nicolaus

  • Evidence of Arctic sea ice thinning from direct observations

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

  • Arctic warming interrupts the Transpolar Drift and affects long-range transport of sea ice and ice-rafted matter

    Thomas Krumpen;H. Jakob Belter;Antje Boetius;Ellen Damm

  • Exploring Arctic Transpolar Drift During Dramatic Sea Ice Retreat

    Jean-Claude Gascard;Jean Festy;Hervé le Goff;Matthieu Weber

  • Seasonality and timing of sea ice mass balance and heat fluxes in the Arctic transpolar drift during 2019–2020

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  • Seasonality of spectral albedo and transmittance as observed in the Arctic Transpolar Drift in 2007

    Marcel Nicolaus;Marcel Nicolaus;Sebastian Gerland;Stephen R. Hudson;Susanne Hanson

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

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

  • Shallow methylmercury production in the marginal sea ice zone of the central Arctic Ocean

    Lars-Eric Heimbürger;Jeroen E Sonke;Daniel Cossa;David Point

  • Arctic Report Card 2020: The MOSAiC Expedition: A Year Drifting with the Arctic Sea Ice

    Matthew D. Shupe;M. Rex;K. Dethloff;E. Damm

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

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

  • A modern concept for autonomous and continuous measurements of spectral albedo and transmittance of sea ice

    Marcel Nicolaus;Stephen R. Hudson;Sebastian Gerland;Karin Munderloh

  • State of the Climate in 2013

    Jessica Blunden;Derek S. Arndt;Kate M. Willett;A. Johannes Dolman

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

    Thomas Krumpen;Florent Birrien;Frank Kauker;Thomas Rackow

  • Sea ice and snow thickness and physical properties of an ice floe in the western Weddell Sea and their changes during spring warming

    Christian Haas;Marcel Nicolaus;Sascha Willmes;Anthony Worby

  • Influence of ice thickness and surface properties on light transmission through Arctic sea ice

    Christian Katlein;Stefanie Arndt;Marcel Nicolaus;Donald K. Perovich

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Hendricks
Stefan Hendricks Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Christian Haas
Christian Haas Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Frank Wenzhöfer
Frank Wenzhöfer Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Sascha Willmes
Sascha Willmes University of Trier
Mats A. Granskog
Mats A. Granskog Norwegian Polar Institute
Klaus M Meiners
Klaus M Meiners Australian Antarctic Division
Donald K. Perovich
Donald K. Perovich Dartmouth College
Robert Ricker
Robert Ricker NORCE Research
Thomas Krumpen
Thomas Krumpen Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Sebastian Gerland
Sebastian Gerland Norwegian Polar Institute

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