Welcome to Polarstern
We invite you twice a year to a virtual trip with the German research vessel Polarstern from Germany to South America or South Africa. Are you a student, general or maritime forecaster or a climatologist? Then you are welcome to train your skills in climatology and in the interpretation of satellite images and products including wind information and altimetry with Meteosat, Metop and JASON. The satellite images will be considered in the context of other data (NWP and observations from Polarstern and other ships.
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Trainingactivities
On
11 April 2012 the German research vessel Polarstern will depart from Punta Arenas and will arrive on
16 May in Bremerhaven.
During this trip we will offer you:
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About Polarstern
The Polarstern is almost 310 days a year at sea, most of these in the Arctic and Antarctic during the respective summer. In this project we have a look to both transfer trips per year. This vessel operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association.
Movie on Polarstern.
Film über die Polarstern.
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Weekly Reports
On 11 April 2012 Polarstern will start the cruise ANT-XXVIII/5 from Punta Arenas (Chile) to
Bremerhaven. The cruise will be utilized for continuous measurements of atmospheric and
marine properties as well as for energy and material fluxes between ocean and atmosphere.
Instrument tests and observations of sea bird and marine mammals will be carried out, too.
Additionally 32 stations are planned, where CTDs as well as underwater light measurements
will take place.
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