Standard meteorological measurements on board of POLARSTERN during expedition ANT-IV (PS08, 4 cruises, south summer 1985/86) in the Atlantic and Weddell Sea, Antarctica ...

• Main Author: König-Langlo, Gert
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2006
• Subjects: Underway cruise track measurements; Radiosonde; ANT-IV/1a; ANT-IV/1b; ANT-IV/1c; ANT-IV/2; ANT-IV/3; ANT-IV/4; Polarstern; Meteorological Long-Term Observations @ AWI AWI_Meteo; Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.472287; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.472287

During the fourth Antarctic voyage ANT-IV of the research icebreaker POLARSTERN standard meteorological measurements have been performed. The measurements include 3-hourly synoptic observations as well as daily upper air soundings. The measurements started on September 6 1985 at Bremerhaven and were terminated at April 28 1986 in Punta Arenas.The 3-hourly synoptic observations are performed following the instructions of the FM 13 ships code defined by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The datasets include automatic measurements such as mean ship's speed, wind velocity, wind direction, air temperature, water temperature as well as visual observations such as total cloud amount, present weather, clouds, height and period of swell waves, ice classification. The visual observation are not performed during night time.For the upper air soundings VAISALA RS80 radiosondes, carried by helium-filled balloons (TOTEX 350 - 1500) were used. Data reception and evaluation were carried out by a MicroCora System ...