End of the campaign Last Saturday I packed the W-band Doppler radar (WProf), which has been measuring clouds and snowfall above Princess Elisabeth Antarctica base since early December. All the rest of the equipment was already dismounted in the previous days and stored in the base, so this moment assumes […]

Together with Alfonso Ferrone, PhD student at Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory LTE, we arrived in Antarctica at Princess Elisabeth Station on 22 November. We have been since then busy deploying a variety of instruments to monitor clouds and precipitation, with of course many expected and unexpected issues. The SPI Exploratory […]

With the research vessel Polarstern moored to a suitable ice floe, SLF researcher David Wagner and his colleagues start to explore their surroundings and install measuring instruments. Things rarely go entirely to plan, with visiting polar bears and abrupt ice shifts complicating the work. After arriving at ‘our’ flow, we […]