Continuous Meteorological Measurements On bord of the research vessel POLARSTERN data of a number of measuring systems and sensors, including the navigation system and sensors from the meteorology, oc [...] unsufficient. Especially the data of the navigation system and the meteorology observatory of RV POLARSTERN - which are used routinely by a variety of scientists as background information for their one

Institut) In October 2010 the Ceilometer 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

Arctic Clouds Map of the areas for aircraft operation illustration the coordination activities at Polarstern and Ny Alesund (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ACLOUD and AFLUX are 2 joint aircraft campaigns

guidelines how to issue a proposal. You represent a small team who wants to jointly conduct research on POLARSTERN? In this case, you can submit a proposal for secondary use. The number of team members should not [...] may submit a proposal for main use. You should though, bear in mind that the planning period for POLARSTERN corresponds to 3 years. Since autumn 2017, a review panel, ”Gutachterpanel Forschungsschiffe” (GPF) [...] (GPF), organizes the review and evaluation of the proposals for ship time on RV POLARSTERN and HEINCKE. The GPF has the mandate to evaluate the proposals for German research vessels and to make recommendations

Wegener Institute’s Neumayer Station III will be exclusively supplied by sea. The research vessel Polarstern will transport– as usual – materials and fuel to the Antarctic. However, due to the coronavirus

n and a second negative PCR tests for CoV-2, we moved, according to plan, in two batches to RV Polarstern on December 20. We moved into the chambers, the safety briefing took place in the two groups that

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After we had sent the 3rd CoV-2 swab from Las Palmas to Bremerhaven, Polarstern continues its journey southwards. The weather is increasingly summerly. Near the Canary Islands

Polarstern expedition ANT XXVII-2. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Southern Ocean phytoplankton are major drivers of global carbon cycling accounting for 20% of the global annual

net SUIT. Afterwards our Dutch colleague Jan von Franeker put the animals in an aquarium onboard Polarstern, identified their species and took these amazing photos. Novel Surface and Under-Ice Trawl (SUIT) [...] Oceanography Ecological Chemistry Explorations Presentation on sea ice ecosystems (Prezi) Blog: Polarstern-Expedition Expedition-Portal Cooperation Partners Cooperation Partners University Hamburg IMARES [...] This video of our Dutch colleagues from the research centre IMARES shows how SUIT is used during a Polarstern expedition . The pictures were taken in late summer 2013 on a expedition in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica

nal expediti- ons and in 2015 led an international expedition on board the research icebreaker Polarstern. She was involved in the planning for the biological work of the MOSAiC experiment and helped draft