gravity meters from LaCoste and Romberg for the purpose of these so-called tie measurements. On board Polarstern, underway measurements are made using a KSS-32 gravimeter from Bodenseewerke. Airborne measurements
The impact of krill and salps on Fe biogeochemistry in Fe-limited oceanic waters The icebreaker Polarstern in Ryder Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: S. Trimborn The western Atlantic sector of the [...] experiments with grazers (krill and salps) and their grazing products will be performed during the Polarstern expedition PS112 in the northern WAP in 2018. This project will be carried out in close cooperation
Floats are free drifting underwater buoys Fig. 1: The research vessel "Polarstern" in antarctic waters. The antenna of a deployed float is visible in the foreground. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Floats
terrestrial polar research of high international reputation. The AWI runs the research and supply ship "Polarstern", the research vessel "Heincke", four small research cutters, two research aircraft, a permanently
long-term measurements in Antarctica, ( Neumayer_III ), in the Arctic (AWIPEV ) and on the oceans ( Polarstern ) automatic weather stations (AWS) are in use. The numbers of the AWS-systems and their locations
Greenland continental shelf. To close this knowledge-gap, swath bathymetric data acquired by FS Polarstern over the last two decades is investigated to identify glacial landforms. This investigation will
AWIPEV: Temperature AWIPEV: Radiation Data AWIPEV: Ozone data Meteorological observations on-board RV Polarstern Without reliable weather data polar expeditions and the related fieldwork become a dangerous u [...] undertaking. For this reason there are always two meteorologists working on-board Polarstern. They constantly update the captain and officers, the helicopter crew and the chief scientist about the latest [...] essential for forecasting the weather worldwide. Weather balloon (Photo: Esther Horvath) Links Polarstern's Weather Data
North American plate drift apart by a few millimetres every year. Using the research icebreaker “POLARSTERN” scientists study this system of ridges and investigate the effects of the mechanisms involved
Ships Polarstern 40 years Polarstern The symbol of german polar research Interview with a capitain of the Polarstern Chronicle Weekly Reports Polarstern Archive of Weekly Reports from RV Polarstern New [...] MOSAiC Expedition Welcome back Polarstern Interview Wunderlich Interview with Markus Rex The Expedition in Numbers Factsheet Sustainabilty MOSAiC Countdown Infographic Polarstern UN Decade of Ocean Science [...] Polarstern Heincke Mya II Uthörn Old Uthörn More Ships Stations Neumayer Station III Working and living in Antarctica Georg von Neumayer Construction of Neumayer Station III Library in the Ice AWIPEV Arctic