Tag: oceans
Sailors drop off ocean-monitoring buoys during trans-Atlantic race
The Transat Jacques Vabre yacht race is one of the big events in the offshore sailing calendar and is a tough race from Le Havre, France, across 8000km of the Atlantic Ocean to Salvador de Bahia, on the Brazilian coast. ...
The last leg of the Polarstern’s journey
The students following the Polarstern have provided us with one final report on what the vessel encountered on the way to its final destination: Cape Town.
Thar she blows – Polarstern blog number five
Blog number five has landed and this week the hot topic is... wind!
Getting to know the weather a little better with the Polarstern
It's week four of the Polarstern's voyage and you know what that means - a brand-new blog post from the students following its path.
The Polarstern logbook
Week two from the Polarstern logbook - students from group FH38 describe what can be found on-board the vessel and what they witnessed during the first days of their virtual mission to Cape Town from Bremerhaven.
Going on a virtual journey with the Polarstern
The research vessel, Polarstern, is currently travelling from Germany to Cape Town and a group of German meteorology students are reporting on its progress with weekly blog posts.
Out-of-this-world imagery of our planet’s “lungs”
Today (8 June) is World Oceans Day and EUMETSAT is proud to bring you some out-of-this-world imagery of planet Earth’s oceans and seas.
The blue below: why monitoring the oceans from space is so important
In this post Helen Czerski, one of the educators on the course Monitoring the Oceans from Space, explains why monitoring the oceans is absolutely vital.