S-MODE 10/18/22 Mission Daily Schedule

Tuesday, October 18

Aircraft schedule:

  • 0800:  G-III PRISM preflight begins
  • NET 1100:  G-III SF3 takeoff (weather permitting)
  • 1200:  Preflight meeting for B200 SF9
  • NET 1200:  Twin Otter SF4 takeoff (weather permitting)
  • 1300:  B200 SF9 takeoff

Ship and in situ plan:

  • The Bold Horizon will continue tracking the second Lagrangian drift survey while collecting EcoCTD data. The biology team will take coordinated samples during likely overpasses by MASS and PRISM tomorrow. Sometime over the next 24h Mara and Andrey will choose a time/place for a CTD cast
  • Salidrones to continue collecting data in a submesoscale array along a similar line.
  • Wave Gliders will attempt to reform triangle patterns and continue surveying across the front. Kelvin will be redeployed from Bold Horizon and start a survey around the floats.

Science team meeting schedule:

Updates:
  • Bold Horizon is surveying on long transects across the experimental region while tracking the Lagrangian floats, which are on their second drift survey.
  • The Twin Otter flew its third flight today while the biology team on the Bold Horizon collected coordinated samples of Chl, POC, and HPLC.
  • The B200 had a hard down day today and the G-III did not fly due to clouds.
  • 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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