Other: NOAA P-3 05/18/16
| From: | BGSF | To: | BGSF | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start: | 05/18/16 10:42 Z | Finish: | 05/18/16 18:22 Z | ||
| Flight Time: | 7.7 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 05/18/16 Science Report
Mission: IceSat-2 Central (priority: baseline)
This mission was designed to overfly planned IceSat-2 ground tracks over a wide range of ice regimes near Kangerlussuaq. We center some of the flightlines on each of three beam pairs (left, nadir and right) in turn, sampling three of each beam pair during this mission. The east-west crossing lines are designed to capture as many ascending/descending crossovers as possible. We modified and augmented the mission in 2016 to overfly five GreenTrACS core sites.
The weather across west-central Greenland began to destablize last night as a cold front began its approach from the Davis Strait. However the worst of the cloudiness was centered to the northeast of Disko Bay, with only a broken and quite low stratus deck obscuring portions of the area between Kangerlussuaq and the Jakobshavn basin. We believed that daytime heating was likely to raise and dissipate these clouds as today wore on, so we selected this mission as the best option of our remaining baseline-priority flights for today. The weather improved as we had hoped it would and we lost no part of the flight lines to clouds. We do however expect conditions to continue to deteriorate tomorrow as the cold front nears, and this may make our last science flight of this campaign tomorrow a challenging one.
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.
We conducted a ramp pass over Kangerlussuaq at 3000' AGL.
Data volumes:
ATM: 32 Gb
FLIR: 3.8 Gb
DMS: 96 Gb
Ku-Band Radar: 150 Gb
MCoRDS: 1.8 Tb
Snow Radar: 150 Gb
BESST: xx Gb
total data collection time: 7.1 hrs
