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

Trainings an Bord der Polarstern (Foto: Eva Brodte, AWI). Cover: Scholars of the NoSoAT16 (North South Atlantic Transect) programme at the start of the training on board Polarstern (Photo: Eva Brodte, AWI) [...] on previous transit cruises with RV Polarstern. 5 2. WEATHER CONDITIONS Max Miller, Hartmut Sonnabend DWD On Saturday morning, November 12, 2016, 09:50 am, Polarstern left Bremerhaven for the campaign PS102 [...] (NOSOAT) Fig. 3.11: Temperature distribution based on data as collected on Polarstern between 2008 and 2016 The data collected on Polarstern shows no significant change in heat and salinity over the last 8 years

measurement systems across the Arctic and Antarctic, using research vessels, such as the icebreaker Polarstern , observatories, aircrafts, and satellites to capture the evolving dynamics of the ocean, atmosphere

biogeochemical cycles in… Find out more MOSAiC In September 2019, the German research icebreaker Polarstern set sail from Tromsø to drift in the Arctic Ocean for a year—trapped in the ice. The goal of the

+49(471)4831-2404 Hauke.Becker @ awi.de Triaxus towed behind FS Polarstern. (Photo: Jan Gerken) Triaxus with Depressor, towed behind RV Polarstern. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] Triaxus Towed System "topAWI" Triaxus towing body on deck of RV Polarstern. (Photo: Jan Gerken, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The topAWI Triaxus (towed ocean profiler of the AWI) is a towed system manufactured [...] operations in regions with light to moderate sea ice cover. It was used for the first time during the Polarstern PS131 expedition and allowed the collection of valuable data in the marginal ice zone north of

platforms provides information on phytoplankton composition and particle size distribution. On board of POLARSTERN, state of the art underway-measuring systems have been installed, their reliability is frequently

x 25 km, ice thickness: 100 to 600 m). In 2016, we reached the glacier’s calving front with R/V Polarstern —the first research vessel ever to do so—and discovered an astonishingly rapid inflow of warm Atlantic

same stations on an annual basis. Integrative field survey of the FramJelly project during the R/V Polarstern cruise PS126 (Graphic: Dmitrii Pantiukhin/AWI) How do jellyfish survive in the Polar Night? Which [...] gelatinous zooplankton during several campaigns: RV Heincke HE560 (2020), Walter Herwig WH440 (2020), Polarstern PS126 (FramJelly, 2021) expeditions and the AWIPEV project KOP183 (2022). Sampling for the ARJEL [...] communities. Part of the FramJelly team (collaboration between AWI, GEOMAR & JAMSTEC) onboard R/V Polarstern (PS126), with the towed camera system PELAGIOS from GEOMAR (Photo: Mario Hoppmann/AWI) PhD students

meteorological and aerosol/trace gas observatories in Antarctica and the meteorological observatory on Polarstern and frequently uses the Polar aircraft. We train machine-learning models to improve our understanding

Seafloor Tools for Integrative Management of Marine Protected Areas Seafloor of the Weddell Sea. RV Polarstern expedition PS118 (2019). (Photo: Autun Purser (AWI) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) BEnToolsMaPs: