S-MODE 10/22/22 Mission Daily Schedule

Saturday, October 22

Aircraft schedule:

  • B200, Twin Otter, and G-III are hard down.
  • All aircraft are planning midday flights for Sunday (weather permitting).

Ship and in situ plan:

  • Bold Horizon will likely be in port over the weekend.
  • Saildrones are moving east to survey frontal decay processes.
  • Seagliders will maintain their lines, but have begun gathering together for recovery next week.

Science team meeting schedule:

Updates:

  • The B200 (SF12), Twin Otter (SF6), and G-III (SF4) all flew today. This was a great, cloud-free day for the optical instruments with multiple overpasses of the ship by both MASS and PRISM. Due to a computer glitch, MOSES only collected a partial data set, but it should be over the front. DopplerScatt collected coincident radar data.
  • The Bold Horizon continues to survey the frontal area. A fourth drift survey will commence tonight after the floats are deployed. Due to forecast wave height, the team expects that the ship will head to port early Saturday and return to the ops area on Monday.
  • 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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