Cruise reports for the DML 2003/04 expedition | Swedish Polar Research Portal

Automatic Weather Stations in Dronning Maud Land, activities during the field season 2003/04

Since 1997/98, IMAU has been operating Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) in western Dronning Maud Land, of which one is close to Wasa (AWS 5) and one is near Svea (AWS 6). The data from these stations have proved highly valuable for Antarctic climate studies,

Supraglacial moraines - witnesses of past ice sheet changes in Heimefrontfjella, Antarctica

In this project we have studied an area in Scharffenbergbotnen, Heimefrontfjella, Dronning Maud Land, east Antarctica.

Nordenskiöld Base monitoring station

During the 2003/04 season an automatic research station was set up in a joint effort by Sweden and Finland. Two scientific projects are also currently attached to the weather station: aerosol measurements and permafrost measurements .

Life history adaptations in Antarctic tradigrades

The main aim of this research project is to investigate the life histories, energetics and same aspects of the biochemistry of Antarctic tardigrade populations, to reveal if specific adaptive patterns have evolved in response to the extreme climatic conditions in continental Antarctica.

Air-earth-current observations to study solar wind effects on the global electric circuit

The aim of this project is to quantify the effect of disturbances on the Sun on the global atmospheric electrical circuit.

High temporal and spatial analysis of snow chemistry in the vicinity of Wasa station, Antarctica

This project examines the chemical signal in the surface and near-surface snow, with special focus on the sulfur compounds (sulfate and MSA- methane-sulfonate) on a small temporal and spatial scale.