Tag: Climate Monitoring

  • The fascinating color of the sea

    The fascinating color of the sea

    Here’s a little question to my Oceansearch partners: How can we measure what causes the sea to look like it does? I have always been fascinated by the ever changing color of the sea. Just on this trip we have gone from the steely gray of the Batic, over the dilluted coffe look-alike of the…

  • Sunny breakfast. Water: 12.89° pH: 8.05. We’re on our way.

    Sunny breakfast. Water: 12.89° pH: 8.05. We’re on our way.

    …but some of our expected crew failed to show up, so we’re pretty shorthanded for the coming two months. If you have time on your hands and like to join, you are welcome to do so (without fees). The schedule is here. You should also notice the new position update widget to the left, which…

  • Nice leg to Visby

    Nice leg to Visby

    Yesterday we went from Sandvik on Öland to Visby: The weather was fair, with quite varying winds from 10 to 25 knots. During the later part of the journey (the red part of the track above) we had what I would call “ocean like” wind/wave conditions for the first time since I started sailing the…

  • Meta photo of climate measuring

    Meta photo of climate measuring

    Photos of people taking photos are always fun! In this case it is significant: What you see is well know meteorologist  and climate researcher Martin Hedberg from the Swedish Weather and Climate Center taking a snap of the just installed weather sensor on the top of Journeyman’s targa arch. One of his projects includes using…