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The system is operated by staff from the German weather service (DWD). Scientific co-use is possible according to prior agreement with AWI Logistics and Principal Investigator of the Polarstern Meteorological Observatory (Holger Schmithüsen). |
Summary
Contacts
Components
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The system consists of a sounding PC, electronic unit "DigiCora", ground check set, GPS antenna, telemtry antenna, Helium filling unit. |
Position
Data logging, storage and archiving
Logged parameters
Central geographical ship's position and time standard
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Time synchronising is regulated via onboard NTP server. Geographical ship's position via unit's GPS receiver. |
Rawdata storage on board
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Mass data: The data acquisition software creates rawdata on the local drive of the sounding computer and in the mass storage. |
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|| root directory | data01 || || directory name | CruiseNo \\ e.g. \\ ANT25_3 || || file name | DBLK_YYYYMMDD_hhmmss.mwx || || Data volume (MB per day) ca | 16 or 32 || || Number of files per day ca | 1 or 2 || |
Dship
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No data transfer to DShip. |
Data archiving on land
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After the cruise, the operator transfers the measurement data along with required meta data to AWI after consultaion with the data scientist and AWI Logistics. Then, the data (including meta data) can be extracted from https://www.pangaea.de/ (for authorized users only). |
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|| File format(s) | *.txt || || Calibration certificates | NO || |