Expedition Start!
“It’s happening, it’s real.”, the chief scientist, Markus Rex (AWI), can’t believe himself that the MOSAiC expedition is on its way now. On 20 September at 20h30 we bid farewell to Polarstern, our colleagues and the crew as they left port in Tromsö. Set-up and Farewell in Tromsö The past 10 days were intense. First, (…)
MOSAiC Training School
As in previous expeditions, we equip our red laboratory container. We will operate around 15 different instruments to study the formation of particles, their growth, transport and transformation in the atmosphere and how the influence clouds. This time, however, the expedition is exeptionally long, 1 year, and on each of the six legs we only (…)
Getting Ready
Equipping the Atmospheric Measurement Container by Julia Schmale Such a three months expedition requires thorough preparation. For the type of experimental atmospheric sciences that we do, a good preparation basically means that we need to find an appropriate location on the ship where we can safely place our instruments and construct air inlets. For this (…)