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2 USVs for the first 5-days, then 5 USVs until end
S-MODE
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1000-1100 PDT (1300-1400 EDT) First in a series. Other dates pending.
After being delayed over a year due to the pandemic, a NASA field campaign to study the role of small-scale whirlpools and ocean currents in climate change is taking flight and taking to the seas in May 2021.
After a 13-month delay to the start of science operations due to COVID-19, the Submesoscale Ocean Dynamics and Vertical Transport Experiment (S-MODE) investigation has officially started collecting data with a short field campaign that began on May 3.
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