S-MODE 10/24/22 Mission Daily Schedule

Monday, October 24

Aircraft schedule:

  • 1100:  G-III SF6 takeoff
  • NET 1100:  Twin Otter SF8 takeoff
  • 1200:  B200 SF14 takeoff

Ship and in situ plan:

  • Lagrangian floats could be recovered Tuesday and will make one final survey later in the week. There will be a radiometer survey after the floats are recovered.
  • EcoCTD operations to resume after being suspended due to sea-state conditions.
  • Underway sampling during MASS and PRISM overflights. Coordination between BH and MASS for a line directly under one of the MASS lines is highly desired. Luc will provide MASS kml in AM.
  • CTD casts attempted at the location of the float surfacing - at 8h intervals.
  • Radiometric buoy measurement from the Bold Horizon possible.
  • Saildrones continue moving their line to adjust for frontal movement.
  • Wave Glider triangles and lines continue to adjust position to track frontal movement.

Science team meeting schedule:

Updates:

  • This was a spectacular day for S-MODE science. There is an outstanding target - a sharp front in the southeastern part of the ops area - that all in situ assets are well-positioned to survey. Additionally, all three aircraft surveyed the area on a cloud-free day.
  • The S-MODE team is diligently tracking the feature to set up for another great science day tomorrow.
  • 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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