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Michael Karcher is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in Environmental Science. The subfields they focus on include Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Ecology.

The scientist's work concentrates on several key topics related to polar and marine environments. These include Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, climate change and permafrost, methane hydrates and related phenomena, cryospheric studies and observations, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, Arctic and Russian policy studies, and marine animal studies overview.

Frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • The Cryosphere
  • AMBIO
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Giulia Castellani
  • Gaëlle Veyssière
  • Julienne Strœve
  • Jeremy Wilkinson
  • Frank Kauker

Notable recent papers by Michael Karcher are:

  • "The MOSAiC ice floe: sediment-laden survivor from the Siberian shelf" (2020) in The Cryosphere
  • "Shine a light: Under-ice light and its ecological implications in a changing Arctic Ocean" (2021) in AMBIO
  • "A Review of Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Linkages: Past Changes, Mechanisms, and Future Projections" (2023) in Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research
  • "A Multi-Sensor and Modeling Approach for Mapping Light Under Sea Ice During the Ice-Growth Season" (2021) in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "A Changing Arctic Ocean: How Measured and Modeled 129I Distributions Indicate Fundamental Shifts in Circulation Between 1994 and 2015" (2021) in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Best Publications

  • Arctic freshwater export: Status, mechanisms, and prospects

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

  • One More Step Toward a Warmer Arctic

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

  • Current estimates of freshwater flux through Arctic and subarctic seas

    Robert Dickson;Bert Rudels;Stephen Dye;Michael Karcher

  • 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

  • A Synthesis of Exchanges Through the Main Oceanic Gateways to the Arctic Ocean

    Agnieszka Beszczynska-Möller;Rebecca Woodgate;Craig Lee;Humfrey Melling

  • Freshwater fluxes in the East Greenland Current: A decade of observations

    L. de Steur;E. Hansen;Rüdiger Gerdes;Michael Karcher

  • 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

  • Modelling Siberian river runoff — implications for contaminant transport in the Arctic Ocean

    I. H. Harms;Michael Karcher;D. Dethleff

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

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

  • Modeling the seasonal variability of hydrography and circulation in the Kara Sea

    I. H. Harms;Michael Karcher

  • State of the Arctic Report.

    J. Richter-Menge;J. Overland;A. Proshutinsky;V. Romanovsky

  • Pathways and modification of the upper and intermediate waters of the Arctic Ocean

    Michael J. Karcher;Josef M. Oberhuber

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Kauker
Frank Kauker 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
Benjamin Rabe
Benjamin Rabe Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Andrey Proshutinsky
Andrey Proshutinsky Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Jinlun Zhang
Jinlun Zhang University of Washington
Sirpa Häkkinen
Sirpa Häkkinen Goddard Space Flight Center
Annette Rinke
Annette Rinke Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
John M. Toole
John M. Toole Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Yevgeny Aksenov
Yevgeny Aksenov National Oceanography Centre

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