Joint AWI-NIPR airborne operations in the past and the future

• Main Authors: Andreas Herber, Hartwig Gernandt, Wilfried Jokat, Uwe Nixdorf, Daniel Steinhage, Heinz Miller, Renate Treffeisen, Takashi Yamanouchi, Kazuyuki Shiraishi, Yoshifumi Nogi, Kazuo Shibuya, Makoto Wada
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research/Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research/Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research/Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research/Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research/Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research/Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research/National Institute of Polar Research/National Institute of Polar Research/National Institute of Polar Research/National Institute of Polar Research/National Institute of Polar Research 2006
• Subjects: Antarctica; airborne operation; geophysics; aerosols; Arctic; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Syowa Station; Alfred Wegener Institute; Antarc*; National Institute of Polar Research; Polar meteorology and glaciology
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=3003; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00003003/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=3003&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) has in the past operated two ski equipped aircraft (Dornier Do228-101) for scientific and logistic purposes in polar regions-called POLAR 2 and POLAR 4. Both aircraft are easily able to be adapted to different science programs. Aero-geophysical instrumentation and various atmospheric systems are available. In recent years, a long and fruitful cooperation with the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR), Tokyo, has been established, whereby so far three joint airborne campaigns have been already performed in the Arctic, namely ASTAR 2000 (Arctic Study of Tropospheric Aerosol and Radiation), AAMP 2002 (Arctic Airborne Measurement Program), and ASTAR 2004. The ANTSYO (Antarctic flight missions at Syowa region: Airborne Geophysical, Glaciological, and Atmospheric Research in East Antarctica) operations of the AWI research aircraft, POLAR 2, started in the season 2005/06, from S17, near Syowa Station in December 2005. Running such surveys presents a logistical challenge that can only be met with the combined support of Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, and the NIPR, Tokyo. Therefore, both national Antarctic programs put their logistical capabilities together in order to perform the first extensive airborne missions in this area over a period of three Antarctic summer seasons (2005/06 till 2007/08).