Meteorologens arbete i Arktis
Området runt vår nordpol är för meteorologen lite okänd mark. Här uppe på de höga latituderna finns väldigt få, i stort sett inga, observationer. På grund av detta saknas viktig information, som indata till ...
Området runt vår nordpol är för meteorologen lite okänd mark. Här uppe på de höga latituderna finns väldigt få, i stort sett inga, observationer. På grund av detta saknas viktig information, som indata till ...
... past six when a board from the bed above mine fell down on me while the hut was shaking in the wind gusts. A minute later Majek shouted his alarm – the Zodiac was moving again. We quickly dressed up and went out to find the boat some 30 m ...
... hood, a broken cover in the engine (including the cast aluminum bolts), an electrical connection, two pipes and the fixation of the pressure sensor for the fuel injection system – and sand, sand, sand everywhere. We can’t do much about ...
... with a warm engine and probably it is due to the broken pressure sensor in the fuel injection system. Out on the water and under load everything seems to be alright. Good for us. We will visit some interesting localities along the coast ...
... Efter några intensiva dygn med besök på Nordpolen så har vi nu kommit in i ett skede då vi mer kommer att fokusera på isstationer och insamling av vatten, iskärnor och plankton. Av detta så kommer våra svenska ...
The weather report promised 11 m/s wind from the south/southeast and somehow my sleep was uneasy. Around six in the morning the ...
Today we left Hyttevika at noon when the weather looked fine. The rain started again 10 minutes later… But only for 30 minutes. We passed ...
... engine blocks now the switching of gears. And we can’t fix it, although we tried. Majek called the Polish station and asked them if we can borrow an engine from them. This seems to be no problem at all, just that they can’t ...
Today we have been one month on Svalbard. At half past seven in the morning the four from Werenhus arrived at Hyttevika. They were on their way to the Polish station ...
Yesterday, in the early evening, the polar bear came back. Three of us were enjoying a nap while I thought that there was something around the house which is more than the wind. Shortly after there was a more than decent knocking at ...
Good weather in the morning, worse during the day and better again in the evening. Waiting for the 21.00 communication with the ...
Half past eleven last night our two saviours from the Polish station arrived at Hyttevika. After a small party we went to bed and got up early in the morning. They had to go to ...
Shortly after we arrived to the Polish station two days ago we got the message that our helicopter flight to two inland localities and then back to Longyearbyen was ...
Yesterday’s journey back was pretty fast. Got up at 07.00 to check the weather: clouds around the mountains at ca. 600 m and lower clouds pressing in from the east. The ...
The Oden Arctic Technology Research Cruise left Longyearbyen, Svalbard, yesterday evening. At the moment we’re heading west towards the east coast of Greenland, where we will deploy four IPS/ADCP mooring ...
... 76°43’N, 11°43’W Around 01.00 in the morning we entered the ice for the first time on this expedition. At the moment it’s mostly random ice sheets in various sizes that are drifting by. We’re still on our way to ...
We arrived at the second mooring deployment site around breakfast time this morning. The deployment went well and we are now on our ...
Yesterday we started seeing somewhat thicker ice and even some icebergs. Oden pulled up right next to one of the bigger icebergs. Researchers from UNIS ...
... have had to wait quite a lot over the last couple of days to do their work. If there isn’t any work or preparations to do, people pass the time by reading, watching movies, working out in the gym or hanging out at the bridge. ...
... the surroundings and, for example, drop a GPS unit on the ice. Maybe there’s time for another test flight today. At the moment the helicopter is in the air, so the micro drone team will have to wait. The plan for the day is to continue ...