S-MODE 10/11/22 Mission Daily Schedule

Tuesday, October 11

Aircraft schedule:

  • 0700:  Preflight briefing for B200 and G-III
  • 0800:  B200 SF3 takeoff
  • ~1000:  G-III SF1 takeoff (conditions permitting)
  • ~1200:  Twin Otter SF1 takeoff (conditions permitting)
  • ~1300:  B200 SF4 takeoff (conditions permitting)

Ship and in situ plan:

  • Coordinated ship surveys with aircraft
  • Float recoveries and redeployment
  • Ship surveys near floats
  • Wave Gliders and Saildrones repeat frontal patterns

Science team meeting schedule:

Wednesday, October 12

  • DopplerScatt flight
  • Continue other patterns
Updates:
  • The B200/DopplerScatt flew their second science flight of the campaign today.
  • The Bold Horizon team deployed surface drifters, deployed and calibrated Lagrangian Floats, and began surveying the ops area.
  • Go to https://smode.whoi.edu/smode_netlink.kml for a Google Earth view of the real time autonomous platform positions.
  • Autonomous platform planned tracks are now incorporated into Google Earth in the KML share folder of the S-MODE Drive

 

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