Other: NOAA P-3 05/14/16
| From: | BGSF | To: | BGSF | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start: | 05/14/16 13:15 Z | Finish: | 05/14/16 21:02 Z | ||
| Flight Time: | 7.8 hours | ||||
| Log Number: | 16M030 | PI: | Nathan Kurtz | ||
| Funding Source: | Bruce Tagg - NASA - SMD - ESD Airborne Science Program | ||||
| Purpose of Flight: | Science | ||||
| 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 05/14/16 Science Report
Mission: Southwest Coastal A (priority: baseline)
This mission is one of two (with Southwest Coastal B) designed to mirror the southeastern coast-parallel coverage in the southwest, along 2011 LVIS flight lines. This particular flight captures the lowest-altitude portion of this part of the ice sheet. We also overly a total of six PROMICE sites.
A stable high pressure air mass dominated all of southern Greenland today, yielding ideal flying conditions for our last baseline-priority land ice mission in the far south. Temperatures were rather warm as well, both on the ice sheet (see supraglacial water photo below) and at Kangerlussuaq where the donning of even a light jacket was debatable this morning. Cloudiness continued to dominate the west-central portion of Greenland today, including the Jakobshavn region and Summit.
All instruments performed normally today, and neither ATM nor DMS experienced unusual fouling of their respective windows from hydraulic fluid.
Overall, we estimate successful data collection across 100% of the flight, a mission first for the current campaign.
Tomorrow (Sunday) is a well-earned rest day for the field team after 6 days of successful science flights and an embedded move from Thule to Kangerlussuaq. The weather forecasts for next week are very favorable for flying over the Jakobshavn basin and our other remaining baseline-priority science targets.
We conducted a ramp pass over Kangerlussuaq at 1200' AGL.
Data volumes:
ATM: 32 Gb
FLIR: 3.8 Gb
DMS: 103 Gb
Ku-Band Radar: 170 Gb
MCoRDS: 2.7 Tb
Snow Radar: 170 Gb
BESST: xx Gb
total data collection time: 7.3 hrs
