Tuesday, October 25
Aircraft schedule:
- NET 1030: B200 SF15 takeoff
- 1000-1130 (TBD): Twin Otter SF9 takeoff
- 1100: G-III SF7 takeoff
Ship and in situ plan:
- Bold Horizon
- Transit to float location while surveying front. Float recovery ends Tues ~10am.
- Day - Underway sampling during MASS and PRISM overflights - coordination to achieve coincident radiometric sample from BH. Line under MASS desirable.
- Evening - Deploy ‘W floats’
- Night - Radiometer & surveys
- EcoCTD sections as possible
- Planning/execution of CTD casts according to plan developed with Mara, Andrey, input from others (time/locations/depths TBD).
- Saildrones continue moving their line to adjust for frontal movement.
- Wave Glider triangles and lines continue to adjust position to track frontal movement.
Science team meeting schedule:
Updates:
- Another great day by all accounts. All three aircraft completed flights on a clear day with ship and in situ assets strategically surveying the front.
- 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