Meetings (all times PDT):
1000: Weather Briefing, Mission Status and Flight Planning Meeting (Teams Meeting)
PACE-PAX
06:00 Local Time: Go/No-Go Meeting We are in the field supporting PACE-PAX (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment), a multi-disciplinary mission that involves two aircraft—the NASA ER-2 and CIRPAS Twin Otter—and several mobile ocean assets, all helping to validate observations and data products from NASA’s new satellite observation platform, PACE. Our days typically start with an initial look at the weather in the area of operations and airport conditions during takeoff and landing.
Meetings (all times PDT):
1000: Weather Briefing, Mission Status and Flight Planning Meeting (Teams Meeting)
NASA ER-2
0630: Instrument Access Begins
1300: ER-2 Weather + Ops Brief (Teams Meeting)
1430: Instrument Access Ends
CIRPAS Twin Otter
0800 Hangar Access
Meetings (all times PDT):
1000: Weather Briefing, Mission Status and Flight Planning Meeting (Teams Meeting)
Hello from sunny Santa Barbara, California, where the ship operations for the PACE-PAX campaign are underway!
The PACE satellite went into orbit in February 2024. Its mission is to help us better understand how the ocean and atmosphere exchange carbon dioxide, as well as how aerosols can fuel phytoplankton blooms and help us track harmful algal blooms around the planet.
Meetings (all times PDT):
No Weather Briefing, Mission Status nor Flight Planning Meeting
NASA ER-2
Hard Down Day
CIRPAS Twin Otter
0800 Hangar Access
RV Shearwater
No operations
RV Blissfully
No Operations
UCSB Rapid Response Team
No Operations
Meetings (all times PDT):
1000: Weather Briefing, Mission Status and Flight Planning Meeting (Teams Meeting)
NASA – PACE-PAX Plan of the Days - Sat/Sun (Updated 09.14.2024, 1000L)
Saturday, September 14, 2024
Meetings (all times PDT):
0900: Weather Briefing, Mission Status and Flight Planning Meeting (Teams Meeting)
NASA ER-2
Hard Down Day
CIRPAS Twin Otter
Hard Down Day
Meetings (all times PDT):
1000: Weather Briefing, Mission Status and Flight Planning Meeting (Teams Meeting)
Meetings (all times PDT):
1000: Weather Briefing, Mission Status and Flight Planning Meeting (Teams Meeting)
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