S-MODE 10/15/22 Mission Daily Schedule

Saturday, October 15

Aircraft schedule:

  • 0900:  PRISM G-III Go/No-Go
  • 0930:  If ‘Go’, PRISM G-III team arrive at hangar
  • 1200:  B200 Go/No-Go
  • 1230:  PRISM SF3 takeoff (weather permitting)
  • 1300-1400:  B200 SF8 and Twin Otter SF2 takeoff (weather permitting)

Ship and in situ plan:

  • Ship surveys of the front, bio-team underway sampling in the afternoon (if PRISM/MASS fly, otherwise, night sampling), Lagrangian float tracking
  • Wave Gliders and Saildrones repeat frontal patterns

Science team meeting schedule:

Updates:
  • The B200 completed its seventh science flight of the campaign today, but cloudy conditions remain for the optical instruments. Conditions for S-MODE airborne science are not forecast to be good tomorrow, but all three aircraft will assess again in the morning.
  • The Bold Horizon, gliders, and Saildrones continue to survey the operations region to try to better define the position and characteristics of the frontal areas.
  • Lagrangian floats were redeployed and will be retrieved tomorrow morning.
  • NOTE: The S-MODE data center may be down tomorrow for WHOI improvements.
  • 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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