Other: NOAA P-3 04/20/16
| From: | BGTL | To: | PAFA | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start: | 04/20/16 13:38 Z | Finish: | 04/20/16 22:22 Z | ||
| Flight Time: | 8.7 hours | ||||
| Log Number: | 16M030 | PI: | Nathan Kurtz | ||
| Funding Source: | Bruce Tagg - NASA - SMD - ESD Airborne Science Program | ||||
| Purpose of Flight: | Science | ||||
| Comments: | Science Transit to PAFA | ||||
| 16M030 | |
|---|---|
| Flight Hours Approved in SOFRS | 200 |
| Total Used | 148.7 |
| Total Remaining | 51.3 |
| 16M030 Flight Reports | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Flt # | Purpose of Flight | Duration | Running Total | Hours Remaining | Miles Flown |
| 03/22/16 | ICF1 | Check | 2 | 2 | 198 | |
| 03/23/16 | ICF2 | Check | 3.4 | 5.4 | 194.6 | |
| 04/12/16 | ICF3 | Check | 1.3 | 6.7 | 193.3 | |
| 04/15/16 | Repo 1 | Ferry | 0.5 | 7.2 | 192.8 | |
| 04/16/16 | Repo 2 | Ferry | 2.9 | 10.1 | 189.9 | |
| 04/18/16 | Repo 3 | Ferry | 7.1 | 17.2 | 182.8 | |
| 04/19/16 | Sea Ice Eureka | Science | 7.3 | 24.5 | 175.5 | |
| 04/20/16 | Sea Ice Laxon Line | Science | 8.7 | 33.2 | 166.8 | |
| 04/21/16 - 04/22/16 | Sea Ice SIZRS Zigzag | Science | 8.3 | 41.5 | 158.5 | |
| 04/30/16 | Sea Ice South Basin Transect | Science | 8.8 | 50.3 | 149.7 | |
| 05/03/16 | Sea Ice North Pole Transect | Science | 7.6 | 57.9 | 142.1 | |
| 05/04/16 | Sea Ice South Canada Basin | Science | 7.9 | 65.8 | 134.2 | |
| 05/09/16 | Land Ice Zachariae-79N | Science | 7.6 | 73.4 | 126.6 | |
| 05/10/16 | Land Ice Northwest Coastal A | Science | 6 | 79.4 | 120.6 | |
| 05/11/16 | Land Ice Umanaq B | Science | 7.1 | 86.5 | 113.5 | |
| 05/12/16 | Land Ice Southeast Coastal | Science | 7.3 | 93.8 | 106.2 | |
| 05/13/16 | Land Ice Helheim-Kangerdlugssuaq | Science | 7.8 | 101.6 | 98.4 | |
| 05/14/16 | Land Ice SW Coastal A | Science | 7.8 | 109.4 | 90.6 | |
| 05/16/16 | Land Ice Thomas-Jakobshavn 01 | Science | 7.9 | 117.3 | 82.7 | |
| 05/17/16 | Land Ice Helheim-Kangerdlugssuaq Gap B | Science | 8.1 | 125.4 | 74.6 | |
| 05/18/16 | Land Ice IceSat-2 Central | Science | 7.7 | 133.1 | 66.9 | |
| 05/19/16 | Land Ice East Glaciers 01 | Science | 7.1 | 140.2 | 59.8 | |
| 05/21/16 | Ferry BGSF_KMCF | Ferry | 8.5 | 148.7 | 51.3 | |
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OIB - Other: NOAA P-3 04/20/16 Science Report
OIB flew the Laxon Line sea ice mission. Clouds were present near the beginning of the line in the Lincoln Sea but were patchy enough that we obtained intermittent data throughout. Conditions remained otherwise clear throughout the rest of the flight with ATM data returns over approximately 95% of the flight line. Leads were sparse in the early part of the flight and increased in frequency as the flight progressed. All systems operated nominally during the flight with MCoRDS also obtaining some opportunistic data over land ice during the transit from Thule to the sea ice line. Fouling of the ATM optical window occurred again though not to a degree to impact the data.
Data volumes:
ATM: 32 Gb some window contamination probable later in flight
FLIR: 4 Gb
DMS: 111 Gb
Ku-Band Radar: 131 Gb
MCoRDS: 396 Gb
Snow Radar: 131 Gb
BESST: (write error caused loss of data collection 1 hour after instrument turn on)
Total data collection time: 6.8 hrs
