S-MODE 10/14/22 Mission Daily Schedule

Friday, October 14

Aircraft schedule:

  • 0900:  G-III and PRISM teams arrive at hangar
  • 1130:  PRISM G-III team final Go/No-Go
  • 1200:  PRISM SF2 takeoff (weather permitting)
  • 1200:  Preflight briefing for B200 SF7
  • 1300-1400:  B200 SF7 and Twin Otter SF1 takeoff (weather permitting)

Ship and in situ plan:

  • Ship surveys of the front, bio-team underway sampling during MASS/PRISM in afternoon, Lagrangian float tracking, CTD casts on either side of front (Mara decide w Andrey).
  • Wave Gliders and Saildrones repeat frontal patterns

Science team meeting schedule:

Updates:
  • The B200 completed its sixth science flight of the campaign today, but the weather remains uncooperative for MASS, MOSES, and PRISM.
  • The Bold Horizon, gliders, and Saildrones are all surveying the operations region to try to better define the position and characteristics of the frontal areas.
  • Lagrangian floats have been retrieved by the ship and will be redeployed today.
  • NOTE: The S-MODE data center may be down on Saturday for WHOI improvements.
  • 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

 

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