CL51 ( VAISALA , Finnland) was mounted on the monkey deck of Polarstern. It is able to measure cloud heights and vertical backscatter profiles. Short, powerful laser pulses are sent out in a vertical

Schedules Ships Timetables Polarstern Auf zur Neumayer-Station (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Scientific coordinator (Dr. Ingo Schewe) 2026 2027 plan Antarctica InSync

of the MOSAiC floe: the sea ice in which the research vessel Polarstern is now drifting through the Arctic was formed off the coast of the archipelago, which separates the East Siberian Sea and the

and has been improved during countless research cruises of RV Polarstern. Find out more The TsunAWI modeling tool has been developed within the framework of the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning

Our research vessel RV Polarstern is equipped with a PARASOUND DS2 sediment echosounder (ATLAS Hydrographic GmbH, Bremen). This echosounder generates two primary

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On Thursday, 3 August 2023, the research vessel Polarstern is scheduled to set off from Tromsø, Norway, towards the North Pole. For two months, a good fifty scientific expedition participants

Diversity and Anti-discrimination Construction of the new Polarstern Health at the Workplace AWI Family Office

Ocean will see an explosion of research activities. With RV Polarstern, our powerful ice breaker and a variety of specially adapted equipment and techniques , AWIs geophysics group has played a leading

’s history, and paved the way for the construction of the new Polarstern II. Despite the numerous crises currently facing our world, her plans for the years to come remain ambitious: she intends e.g. to

participating in the “March for Science” – from the Open Ship Polarstern event in Bremerhaven, from on board the research ship Heincke, from the Antarctic research station Neumayer III, and from the