German meteorological activities in the Arctic, 1940–45

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Blyth, J. D. M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1951
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Svalbard; Greenland; Norway; Franz Josef Land; Hope Island; Hopen; East Greenland; Hope island; Northern Norway; Polar Record; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400040596; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400040596

Between 1940 and 1945 the German navy undertook a series of expeditions to the arctic regions in order to obtain regular synoptic weather reports, the international exchange of which had practically ceased upon the outbreak of war in 1939. During these years the German naval meteorological service [...