P-3 Orion 04/22/17

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Aircraft: 
P-3 Orion - WFF (See full schedule)
Flight Number: 
Science Flight #27-Helheim-Kangerd
Payload Configuration: 
OIB Arctic
Nav Data Collected: 
No
Total Flight Time: 
7.8 hours
Submitted by: 
Cate Easmunt on 04/22/17
Flight Segments: 
From:BGSFTo:BGSF
Start:04/22/17 12:04 Z Finish:04/22/17 19:50 Z
Flight Time:7.8 hours
Log Number:17P006PI:Nathan Kurtz
Funding Source:Bruce Tagg - NASA - SMD - ESD Airborne Science Program
Purpose of Flight:Science
Flight Hour Summary: 
17P006
Flight Hours Approved in SOFRS333.6
Total Used332
Total Remaining1.6
17P006 Flight Reports
Date Flt # Purpose of Flight Duration Running Total Hours Remaining Miles Flown
02/24/17Airworthiness Test FlightCheck11332.6
02/26/17Project Test Flight #1Check4.95.9327.7
02/27/17Project Test Flight #2Check38.9324.7
03/07/17Transit FlightTransit8.217.1316.5
03/09/17Science Flight #1 - North Pole TransectScience825.1308.5
03/10/17Science Flight #2 - Laxon LineScience8.533.6300
03/11/17 - 03/12/17Science Flight #3 - Chukchi West LineScience841.6292
03/12/17 - 03/13/17Science Flight #4 - North Beaufort Loop LineScience8.149.7283.9
03/14/17 - 03/15/17Science Flight #5 - East Beaufort Loop LineScience857.7275.9
03/20/17Science Flight #6 - Sea Ice South Basin Transect (to Thule)Science8.165.8267.8
03/22/17Science Flight #7 - North Flux 02Science7.973.7259.9
03/23/17Science Flight #8 - Zig Zag West LineScience7.981.6252
03/24/17Science Flight #9 - CryoVEx LineScience5.887.4246.2
03/27/17Science Flight #10 - Northwest Coastal A LineScience7.494.8238.8
03/28/17Science Flight #11 - North Central Cap 01 LineScience7.6102.4231.2
03/29/17Science Flight #12 - Ellesemere Island 01 LineScience7.6110223.6
03/30/17Science Flight #13 - Ellesemere South LineScience7.9117.9215.7
03/31/17Science Flight #14- Alexander-Petermann LineScience6.5124.4209.2
04/03/17Science Flight #15- Zachariae 79N Fram Straight and BGTL ENSB TransitScience7.4131.8201.8
04/05/17Science Flight #16 - Svalbard North Line (High Priority)Science7138.8194.8
04/06/17Science Flight #17- Svalbard South Mission (High Priority)Science8.5147.3186.3
04/07/17Science Flight #18- Combined Zig Zag East Mission and Transit ENSB to BGTLScience8.3155.6178
04/10/17Science Flight #19- North Central Gap 3Science7.8163.4170.2
04/11/17Science Flight #20- CryoVex 2 (High Priority)Science7.8171.2162.4
04/12/17Science Flight #21-Northwest Coastal CScience7.2178.4155.2
04/13/17Science Flight #22-North Glaciers 02 Prime (High Priority)Science8.2186.6147
04/14/17Science Flight #23-IceSat-2 North/CryoSat-2 SARInScience7193.6140
04/17/17Science Flight #24-Humboldt 01(High Priority)Science7.8201.4132.2
04/19/17Science Flight #25-Sea Ice - South Canada Basin (MediumPriority)Science7.8209.2124.4
04/20/17Transit Flight to KangerlussuaqTransit3212.2121.4
04/21/17Science Flight #26-Southeast CoastalScience8220.2113.4
04/22/17Science Flight #27-Helheim-KangerdScience7.8228105.6
04/24/17Science Flight #28-Geikie 01 (High Priority) Science823697.6
04/26/17Science Flight #29-Devon-Bylot (Medium Priority)Science7.9243.989.7
04/28/17Science Flight #30-Penny 01 (Medium Priority)Science6249.983.7
04/29/17Science Flight #31-Thomas - Jakobshavn 01Science8.4258.375.3
05/01/17Science Flight #32-Thomas - Jakobshavn-Eqip-StoreScience8.4266.766.9
05/02/17Science Flight #33-Thomas - ICESat-2 Central Science7.9274.659
05/03/17Science Flight #34-Thomas - Southwest Coastal AScience8.3282.950.7
05/05/17Science Flight #35-Helheim-Kangerdlugssuaq Gap B (High Priority)Science8.2291.142.5
05/06/17Science Flight #36-Helheim-K-EGIG-Summit Science8299.134.5
05/08/17Science Flight #37-Southeast Glaciers 01 (High Priority)Science8307.126.5
05/10/17Science Flight #38-Umanaq B (High Priority)Science8315.118.5
05/11/17Science Flight #39-ICESat-2 South (High Priority)Science8.1323.210.4
05/12/17Science Flight #40-Nuuk FjordsScience1.83258.6
05/13/17Transit Flight to Dover DE (to clear customs)Transit6.4331.42.2
05/13/17Transit Flight to Wallops Flight FacilityTransit0.63321.6

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Related Science Report: 

OIB - P-3 Orion 04/22/17 Science Report

Mission: 
OIB
Mission Summary: 

Mission: Helheim-Kangerdlugssuaq (priority: baseline)

This is a repeat mission, and is very similar to missions flown in almost all prior OIB Greenland campaigns. It captures centerline surveys of the two main branches of Helheim, of Kangerdlugssuaq, Fenris and of several branches of Midgard glaciers. We also refly the centerline of the Hutchinson Glacier, and establish a new centerline of a glacier which empties into the fjord of Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier just beyond its terminus.

Weather around southwest and west-central Greenland has been unpredictable of late, and tending toward being more cloudy than models have predicted.  This was the case again this morning.  Meanwhile the southeast coast was almost perfectly clear and experiencing light winds, making it an ideal place for us to fly a baseline-priority mission today, and a scenically spectacular one at that.  We were completely successful in flying all east coast lines, and we only periodically lost optical data on the transit lines west of the ice divide.  Overall we estimate successful data colletion for 95% of the flight.

All instruments performed well, with the slight exception of some minor instability of the ATM T6 (wide-scanner) data system.  This caused very brief (<1 minute) outages on three separate occasions today.

Journalist Avi Steinberg, writing for The Guardian, flew with us for the first time today. Avi will be embedded with us for a week.

Data volumes:
Accumulation Radar: 1.4 Gb
ATM: 140 Gb
CAMBOT: 46 Gb
DMS: 119 Gb
FLIR: 16 Gb
KT19: 11 Mb
MCoRDS: 1.8 Tb
Narrow Swath ATM: 30 Gb
Snow Radar: 1.4 Tb

total data collection time: 7.6 hrs
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Images: 

Map of Helheim-Kangerdlugssuaq

Submitted by: 
John Sonntag on 04/22/17