SO-Clim

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    Same procedure as every year: „Gardening“ in the deep Arctic Ocean

    students coming from 10 nations embarked in sunny Tromsø to participate in the second leg of RV “Polarstern” expedition PS93.

    Schedules

    Schedules Ships Timetables Polarstern Auf zur Neumayer-Station (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) contact: Scientific coordinator 2025 2026 longterm plan until 2027 Heincke Heincke-Expedition HE-408 (Photo:

    Sea Ice Thickness - Mass Balance

    instruments that are towed 12 to 20 meters above the ice surface using helicopters from land or from RV Polarstern. Since 2009, AEM measurements are also conducted with the research aircraft Polar 5 operating from

    Sea water below, wind above and ice in between: “Polarstern” is thriving in the Southern Ocean waters between Bouvet Island and the Neumayer III station.

    PS96 Weekly Report No. 2 | 14 till 20 December 2015
    Just in time when the first weekly letter started its long distance, homeward bound journey - a “space odyssey” via satellite - the first tiny ic

    Seafloor spreading

    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

    Sediment echosounder

    Our research vessel RV Polarstern is equipped with a PARASOUND DS2 sediment echosounder (ATLAS Hydrographic GmbH, Bremen). This echosounder generates two primary frequencies at ca. 18 and 22 kHz. The secondary

    Seismology in subpolar oceans

    period of one year (expedition SWEAP of RV Polarstern). Reliable weather and sea state forecasts and the excellent poor-weather performance of RV Polarstern allow to sucessfully work in such areas. Our [...] recovery Seismology under sea ice Following prototype tests in summer 2014 (expedition AURORA of RV Polarstern), we now have specially modified ocean bottom seismometers in routine use. The devices can also [...] depths and can be successfully recovered when the ice cover is almost 100% (Expedition PS137 of RV Polarstern). The data show that the Arctic Ocean offers good recording conditions for earthquakes due to the

    Sensors

    this time - have a rather low resolution. Precipitation Precipitation measurements on board of Polarstern started at 1994-10-18 (DOSA 450, Friedrichs, Germany). The sensor is unable to measure solid p

    Ship Cruises

    Southampton National Oceanographic Centre 'Porquepine Abyssal Plain'. RV Polarstern PS93.2 und PS99.2 SeaPump went with RV Polarstern, PS93.2 und PS99.2, to the long-term observatory of Alfred-Wegener-Institute