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A typical weather station on land is fixed and always in the same climate zone. The advantage of the station on the Research vessel Polarstern is its mobility. The vessel’s course runs from the Arctic to the Antarctic through many climate zones and you have a chance to read about it and train your forecasting skills and the interpretation of satellite images in some of the zones.
For this training module, we will single out some interesting weather events around the Polarstern from the last few years. These logbook entries will mark the Northeast Trade Winds, the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and the Southeast Trade Winds. You can train the interpretation of cloud types with the different RGB images from the METEOSAT satellite. There is the possibility to compare these RGB images with the Webcam, the Radio Sounding and the Weather Reports on the vessel.
Check out the logbook.