and reanalysis), so difficult to repond in short. A lso such studies are ongoing now in the Y O P P fram ew ork. I w ill try to list at least som e points: • There is a gap of inform ation on w ind, tem

impact on the turbulent fluxes. Our first analysis shows only weak impact of clouds over the open Fram Strait during strong convection, but – dependent on the optical thickness of the clouds – moderate

outbreaks over Fram Strait. One of our goals is to compare in situ measurements with satellite measurements and we could manage this week one flight following exactly the track of CloudSat over Fram Strait. This

airport so that flights were impossible. After this period a new cold air outbreak had developed over Fram Strait but this was accompanied by very strong winds with gusts above 40 Kn at the airport. Since [...] we were happy that conditions were good enough to perform a flight over both the ice free part of Fram Strait but also over sea ice, this time up to 83° N. Moreover, strong wind is helpful for the turbulence [...] ideal and the cold air outbreak was still ongoing. We went first to a position west of Svalbard over Fram Strait, and followed then roughly the direction of convection rolls to the North. Such rolls mostly

data will help us to quantify the role of clouds in the lower Arctic atmosphere over the Northern Fram Strait. Similar to ACLOUD our strategy during AFLUX is to measure in, above, and below clouds with [...] weather maps from different prediction models showed that a cold-air outbreak began to evolve over Fram Strait. The maps predict that this outbreak will last over several days so that we can expect good [...] over sea ice was flown and combined cloud radar and drop sonde measurements followed over the open Fram Strait during the way back from North to South. Total campaign flight hours this week (airtime: 11

2015, edited by Ilka Peeken 693 (2015) The Expedition PS93.2 of the Research Vessel POLARSTERN to the Fram Strait in 2015, edited by Thomas Soltwedel 692 (2015) Antarctic Specific Features of the Greenhouse

Research Vessel POLARSTERN to the Fram Strait in 2016, edited by Torsten Kanzow 704 (2016) The Expeditions PS99.1 and PS99.2 of the Research Vessel POLARSTERN to the Fram Strait in 2016, edited by Thomas

workpackages within the Helmholtz PACES-II programme and the Frontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring (FRAM) strategic investment,Reviewer for several oceanographic and geophysical journals,Reviewer of funding

workpackages within the Helmholtz PACES-II programme and the Frontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring (FRAM) strategic investment,Reviewer for several oceanographic and geophysical journals,Reviewer of funding

is on oceanographic transects for which long-standing observational records exist, such as in the Fram Strait region. Contacts: Agnieszka Beszczynska-Möller (IOPAN) Evgeny Volodin (INMRAS) Helge Goessling [...] transport into the Arctic is examined with a special focus on separation of Atlantic inflow between Fram Strait and the Barents Sea, lateral exchanges in the Nordic Seas, and a role of eddies in modulating [...] observations of temperature (left) and salinity (right) as a function of longitude and depth along the Fram Strait. The remaining four rows show the same for model simulations with FESOM2 at 25km resolution