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The in situ data of sea surface temperature (SST) were measured onboard the Polar Ship Almirante Maximiano in the southern Shetland Islands between 5 and 23 February 2011. For the simulations, three concentric nested grids have been used at the 9 km, 3 km and 1 km spatial resolution in the simulations of the skin sea surface temperature (SSST) with WRF model. The grids are displaced every day, always centered in the middle position of the ship (latitude/longitude) during transect. The SSST is underestimated in comparison with SST on average 1.5 °C. The real average wind speed observed was 8.7 ms-1. Therefore the amount of mixing between SST and SSST is greater, and the temperature difference between the two layers is smaller, on average 0.5 °C. The underestimation of the model is mean 1 °C. This underestimation directly interfere on the amount of ocean evaporation for the atmosphere, which may cause error in the energy balance. The correlation of the SSST with real SST data was 0.84 and root mean square error 1.87. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]