30 years of upper air soundings on board of  R/V <i>POLARSTERN</i>

Driemel, Amelie; Loose, Bernd; Grobe, Hannes; Sieger, Rainer; König-Langlo, Gert

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-213-2016

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-213-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-213-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

Review article

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01 Jun 2016

Review article |

| 01 Jun 2016

30 years of upper air soundings on board of R/V POLARSTERN

Amelie Driemel, Bernd Loose, Hannes Grobe, Rainer Sieger, and Gert König-Langlo

Data sets

30 years of upper air soundings on board of R/V POLARSTERN (1982-12-29 to 2012-11-25) G. König-Langlo https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.810000

Short summary

Since 1982-12-09 the icebreaker POLARSTERN is the flagship of German polar research. It has conducted 30 campaigns to Antarctica, and 29 to the Arctic. It is therefore the perfect basis for radiosonde launches in data-sparse regions (oceans and polar regions). Radiosondes are balloon-borne instruments which record atmospheric temperature, humidity and pressure. The data are used, e.g. for short and medium weather forecasts. In these 30 years, 12 378 radiosonde balloons were started on POLARSTERN.