Category: Weather
The latest news about the science of weather and forecasting.
RV Polarstern, near the Canary Islands, 11 April 2017
The scatterometer explained
RV Polarstern – squalls in the tropical South Atlantic, 07 April 2017
The RV Polarstern passed the Inner-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), an important part of the global circulation.
RV Polarstern, tropical South Atlantic, 03 April 2017
Life on the RV Polarstern explained
Where old satellites go to die
Meteosat-7, EUMETSAT’s oldest operational meteorological satellite, tomorrow begins its final journey to the great graveyard orbit in the sky.
RV Polarstern, tropical South Atlantic, 31 March 2017
RV Polarstern moves into the tropics
RV Polarstern, just passed Tropic of Capricorn, 29 March 2017
Oliver talks about the Polarstern's experience in tropical waters
RV Polarstern, Southern Brazil abeam, 27 March 2017
We look back to a very calm weekend without any surprises.
RV Polarstern, South Atlantic, 24 March 17
Just a short update with the weekend coming up. The humidity I talked about yesterday gave us a nasty surprise.
RV Polarstern near 45°S 058°W, 23 March 2017
As every year on 23 March, today is the worldwide day of Meteorology, proclaimed to remember the founding of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1950.