by Marco Giorgetta, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany 15th of March 2016 on Meteor at 27°S / 33°W Now it is already two days since we visited the last Agulhas ring. Due to the large number of these rings they are just numbered, except the one named “Mareike eddy”, and in Sabrina’s numbering we […]

by Christina Schmidt, CAU Today we are right in the centre of a high pressure system, so everything is really calm. No winds, no big waves and, as it rained yesterday, no more salt covering the deck, make me sometimes forget that we are actually right in the middle of the South Atlantic. But we […]

by Anne Scherhag, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz It is incredible how fast the time is passing on board the Meteor: Today is already hump day. I can’t believe it is already our 10th day in the South Atlantic, and I guess, the second half will pass even faster due to being settled into […]