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The observatory is always manned with a weather radio technician and a meteorologist during scientific cruises. The facilities of the meteorological observatory can be co-used by scientists for special measurements.

The weather station at Polarstern consists of several devices which measure standard parameters such as temperature, wind, humidity, barometric pressure, radiation and precipitation. Satellite images are received with a dedicated antenna which, together with the data, are used for forecast purposes. The station is operated by a weather technician-observer from the German Weather Service (DWD) who is responsible for the routine 3-hourly synoptic observations and the daily upper air soundings.

The weatherstation consists of different sensors (see: subdevices) and a data acquisition unit. The data acquisition unit developed by AWI in colaboration with [FIELAX|http://www.fielax.de] provides local data storage and data transfer to the DShip system.

Time synchronising is regulated via ntp between the acquisition computer xdas1 and the central ntp-server on board.
Geographical ship's position via DShip.

Data storage in DShip system.

Evaluated data.

|| Device name | weatherstation || 
|| Parameters | air pressure \[hPa\]; air temperature \[°C\]; ceiling \[ft\]; dewpoint rows nest \[°C\]; direct radiation \[W/m2\]; global radiation \[W/m2\]; max rel. wind velocity last min \[m/s\]; precipitation \[mm/min\]; rel. humidity \[%\]; rel. wind direction \[deg\]; rel. wind velocity \[m/s\]; sunshine indicator; true wind direction \[deg\]; true wind velocity \[m/s\]; true wind velocity \[Beaufort\]; true wind velocity \[Knots\] \[Kn\]; visibility \[m\]; water temperature \[°C\] ||

The acquired data are evaluated, archived and made available via Internet by the AWI.
DShip data set can be extracted from https://dms.awi.de.

|| File format(s) | stored in DShip System || 
|| Calibration certificates | YES ||
|| Location of certificates | Reederei Laeisz, T. Liebe ||