ARKTIS 1988 - Atmospheric Boundary Layer in the Marginal Ice Zone in the Fram Strait: radiosoundings at the research vessel Valdivia

The expedition ARKTIS 1988 was initiated and directed by the Collaborative Research Centre 318 of the German Research Foundation entitled "Climatically relevant proceses in the system ocean-atmosphere-ice" and established at the University of Hamburg. The field experiment took place in the Fram Strait in the area straddling the ice margin west of Spitsbergen during the period from 4 to 26 May 1988.

The experimental concept for the investigation of boundary layer modification and certain cloud structures in cases of off-ice and on-ice air flows was to maneuver one ship, the research icebreaker POLARSTERN, about 100 km into the ice and to operate with a second ship, the research vessel VALDIVIA, in the open water near the ice edge. Several aircraft operating from the airport at Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen were intended to measure the mean structures, variances and covariances at different distances from the ice edge.

ARKTIS 1988 was followed by the two experiments ARKTIS 1991 and ARKTIS 1993.

1988年，由德国研究基金会协同研究中心318发起并指导的名为“海洋-大气-冰系统中的气候相关过程”的项目，在汉堡大学设立了ARKTIS 1988远征。该实地实验于1988年5月4日至26日在斯匹次卑尔根西部冰缘地带的弗拉姆海峡进行。实验的构想是为了研究离岸和靠岸气流中边界层的变化以及某些云结构，计划操控一艘科研破冰船POLARSTERN，使其在冰区约100公里处进行操作，并使用另一艘科研船VALDIVIA在冰缘附近的开阔水域进行作业。此外，计划从斯匹次卑尔根的朗伊尔机场起飞的多架飞机，将对冰缘不同距离处的平均结构、方差和协方差进行测量。ARKTIS 1988之后，相继开展了ARKTIS 1991和ARKTIS 1993两项实验。