• WeeklyReport-ACLOUD_2017_week_3.pdf

    clouds at Polarstern. Tue, 06 June Due to a weather front passing Svalbard, no flight was scheduled and a day-off was announced. Wed, 07 June The weather front shifted towards the area of Polarstern and did [...] overpass and cloud measurements at Polarstern was planned. The cloud cover over the sea ice was predicted to decrease during the day. When P5/6 arrived at Polarstern, the clouds were very thin and patchy [...] This situation was used to take a day-off on Tuesday. The polar aircraft reached two times RV Polarstern where collocated measurements could be performed. In the second part of the week a high pressure

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  • Technology and Logistics

    floats deployed during Polarstern expedition PS 103. (copy 2) Fig. 5. Schematic of mooring array extending from Kapp Norvegia towards the Antarctic Peninsula, deployed during Polarstern expedition PS 103. [...] presence of Antarctic marine mammals. HAFOS was first implemented to its full extend in 2012/13 during Polarstern expedition ANT-XXIX/2, yet subsets of the system existed in various configurations since 2002, [...] driven instrumentation, need to be exchanged every second to third year during expeditions with RV Polarstern, which also serve to collect spatially highly resolved CTD sections and to deploy additional i

  • Week 8: Returning to Svalbard

    2017
    After concluding our 4 th ice station at the northernmost location of this expedition, Polarstern set a south-westerly course, heading for the position of our well-known PASCAL ice floe of PS 106/1 [...] mostly gentle passage through the ice. Our journey was inter-spaced with stations where we set out Polarstern’s rubber boats Laura and Luisa to sample the surface microlayer, conducted CTD casts and performed

  • Research Vessel and cutter

    The fleet of the Alfred Wegener Institute RV Polarstern RV Mya II RV Heincke MB Aade FS Uthörn Old Uthörn

  • Woche3__18.-24.09._-2025_EN.pdf

    horizon. When flying back to Polarstern after 5 hours of work on the ice, fog began to roll in. Having acquired the new observations, we were all happy to land safely back on Polarstern. © Julia Regnery Straight [...] surveying the Wandel Sea at around 83°N / 15°W from the coast to the deep sea aboard the icebreaker Polarstern. But heavy sea ice kept us 10 nautical miles from the coast — too far to study the shallow shelf [...] different analyses, and rushing to store or process them before we reach the next station. Meanwhile, Polarstern faces its own challenge—sticking to the straight red line of the Wandel section (see picture).

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  • MOSAiC

    field expedition to the Central Arctic ever. Key element is the drift of the research icebreaker Polarstern frozen into the pack ice over an entire year. Over all, more than 300 scientists from 17 countries [...] to analyzing and exploiting the data over the coming years to decades. Beyond an ice camp around Polarstern, a distributed network of observations, airborne and satellite observations contribute to the field

  • Freight handling

    Roadtransport (not expeditions) Label for outer packing: Polarstern; departure Bremerhaven (Word) Polarstern; any foreign port (Word) Polarstern; Stückgut/General Cargo ANT-Land; freight to/from Antarctica [...] handling A nna-Lena Bohlen dangerous goods Gisela S trelow disposals Polarstern expeditions Please also read the information in the Polarstern-Wiki Contact Freight handling: transport @ awi.de Anna-Lena Bohlen [...] Neumayer III, Carlini Station/ Dallmann Laboratory Nina Machner Polarstern incl. dangerous goods and Neumayer/Kohnen if transported on board Polarstern / Agency services, harbour and shipyard times Marcus Meierdierks

  • Q and A

    the RV Polarstern? To learn more about RV Polarstern, our Code of Conduct and the mandatory medical examinations, please refer to the AWI website for participants of expeditions and the PolarsternWiki: [...] more about RV Polarstern, our Code of Conduct and the mandatory medical examinations, please refer to the section “Where do I find further information on AWI expeditions and the RV Polarstern?" Do I have [...] t-us/logistics/information-for-expedition-participants.html spaces.awi.de/display/EFPW/Polarstern+-+Wiki Questions and Answers We hope that our Q and A section is helpful, if you still have questions

  • Shopping only once a year

    Antarctica look after themselves? In a blog post, the team reports on the supplies provided by the Polarstern

  • Underway observations

    PS106/1 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 24. - 30. May 2017
    On May 24, 2017 at 12:00 Polarstern has departed for the Arctic Expeditions in summer 2017.