S-MODE 10/26/22 Mission Daily Schedule

Wednesday, October 26

Aircraft schedule:

  • 0830:  B200 SF16 takeoff
  • NET 1000:  G-III SF7 takeoff
  • 0800-1230 and 1330-1830:  Twin Otter SF10 & SF11 flight windows (weather permitting)
  • 1400:  B200 SF17 takeoff

Ship and in situ plan:

  • Bold Horizon -  Radiometer and W experiment
    • Lagrangian floats  - Redeploy Wednesday AM near Saildrones
    • EcoCTD as possible
    • Biology team - underway sampling, flyovers as possible
  • Saildrones will continue their current line. The data stream stops Thursday AM.
  • Wave Gliders are re-forming themselves to survey the front.

Science team meeting schedule:

Updates:

  • The data from the last few flights has really been extraordinary as exemplified in the figure above, which shows MOSES SST (colors) with coincident DopplerScatt streamlines, and several developing submesoscale eddies.
  • The B200 and Twin Otter conducted successful flights today. The G-III scrubbed their flight due to cloudy conditions over the ops area.
  • The Bold Horizon crew recovered the floats and will redeploy them tomorrow morning and conduct a “W Experiment” to measure vertical velocity.
  • The ship followed the Saildrones for radiometer comparisons.
  • Go to https://smode.whoi.edu/smode_netlink.kml for a Google Earth view of the real time autonomous platform positions.

 

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