[S-MODE] S-MODE Plan of the Day

[Czech, Erin P. (ARC-SGG)]

Plan of the Day for Friday, November 5 (all times Pacific):

Announcements:
B200 flights 11 and 12 and Twin Otter flights 8 and 9 were successfully completed. Simultaneously, Oceanus conducted a uCTD survey around SD/WG array with drifter deployments. It was reported today that the Oceanus crew has managed over 1000 uCTD casts thus far (!).

The team is really looking forward to studying the results of the current “velocity extravaganza”. This full demonstration of all assets surveying together is what the science team has envisioned since the proposal, and we expect that this operations mode will be utilized many more times during the Intensive Operating Periods (IOPs) in Fall 2022 and Spring 2023.

Lastly, Nick Pizzo (Scripps) wrote an excellent blog for S-MODE that was published today at https://blogs.nasa.gov/earthexpeditions/2021/11/04/on-the-edge-of-something-new-studying-the-sea-with-a-fleet-of-technologies/. Thanks, Nick! By the way, all of the S-MODE posts can be found at https://blogs.nasa.gov/earthexpeditions/tag/s-mode/.

Friday, November 5

  *   Flight outlook
     *   Final day of science flights of the S-MODE Pilot Campaign
     *   1200: Takeoff - B200 Flight 13 (crew brief 1030)
     *   TO flight 10 scheduled, takeoff time TBD
  *   Ship and in situ operations
     *   Final CTD/uCTD/EcoCTD calibrations
     *   Recovery of final NAVO glider
     *   WG CTD calibration and recoveries in the afternoon
  *   ~1215: PRISMA overflight
  *   1400: Final Daily Control Center meeting

Saturday, November 6

  *   Ship and in situ operations
     *   Oceanus will conduct joint operations with Saildrones for radiometric comparison and will begin the steam back to Newport OR around 1600 PT. Expected arrival in Newport is late afternoon Monday.
     *   IR calibrations with SDs will continue as long as feasible

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Alex Wineteer (JPL) exiting the aircraft after the eleventh B200 flight of the S-MODE campaign (Photo credit: Sommer Nicholas)
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40-hour average surface current vectors from coastal radar network, overlaid on satellite SST from morning of 11/4/2021.  The white and magenta dots show the positions of the Wave Gliders, Saildrones, and RV Oceanus.


Erin Czech
Project Manager, Earth Science Project Office
NASA Ames Research Center
Mobile: +1 650 499 6406
erin.czech at nasa.gov
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