Thursday, October 13
Aircraft schedule:
- 0730: Go/No-go for G-III SF2
- 0900: Preflight briefing for G-III SF2 (pending go/no-go decision)
- 1100: PRISM SF2 takeoff (weather permitting)
- 1100: Preflight briefing for B200 SF6
- 1200: B200 SF6 and Twin Otter SF1 takeoff (weather permitting)
Ship and in situ plan:
- Ship surveys to characterize submesoscale front
- Float recoveries and redeployment
- Wave Gliders and Saildrones repeat frontal patterns
Science team meeting schedule:
- 1030: ASV/Ship Ops Meeting - https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/96964625447
- 1430: Control Center Meeting - https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/99445053968
Updates:
- The Bold Horizon pulled into port briefly in San Francisco at ~0730 and departed at noon. The ship will be back in the ops area tonight where they will begin surveying to relocate the submesocale front, recover the Lagragian floats after a successful calibration run, and redeploy the floats on the dense side of the submesoscale front.
- We are also very happy to report that the science party member who had to exit the research cruise has received medical treatment and is now recovering at a hotel before returning home.
- The B200 completed its fifth science flight of the campaign today. As demonstrated in the Pilot and now continuing in IOP-1, the DopplerScatt data processing team, led by Ernesto Rodriguez and Alex Wineteer, are producing surface velocity maps of the ops area that are being used by the broader science team to target features of interest for the ship and autonomous vehicles.
- The B200 and the Twin Otter are planning coordinated intercomparison flights tomorrow that are scheduled to depart midday as weather permits.
- Go to https://smode.whoi.edu/smode_netlink.kml for a Google Earth view of the real time autonomous platform positions.
- Autonomous platform planned tracks are now incorporated into Google Earth in the KML share folder of the S-MODE Drive
