P-3 Orion 04/07/17
| From: | ENSB | To: | BGTL | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start: | 04/07/17 10:05 Z | Finish: | 04/07/17 18:22 Z | ||
| Flight Time: | 8.3 hours | ||||
| Log Number: | 17P006 | PI: | Nathan Kurtz | ||
| Funding Source: | Bruce Tagg - NASA - SMD - ESD Airborne Science Program | ||||
| Purpose of Flight: | Science | ||||
| Comments: | This was a combined science and transit flight, relocating the aircraft to Thule Air Base from Svalbard. | ||||
| 17P006 | |
|---|---|
| Flight Hours Approved in SOFRS | 333.6 |
| Total Used | 332 |
| Total Remaining | 1.6 |
| 17P006 Flight Reports | ||||||
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| Date | Flt # | Purpose of Flight | Duration | Running Total | Hours Remaining | Miles Flown |
| 02/24/17 | Airworthiness Test Flight | Check | 1 | 1 | 332.6 | |
| 02/26/17 | Project Test Flight #1 | Check | 4.9 | 5.9 | 327.7 | |
| 02/27/17 | Project Test Flight #2 | Check | 3 | 8.9 | 324.7 | |
| 03/07/17 | Transit Flight | Transit | 8.2 | 17.1 | 316.5 | |
| 03/09/17 | Science Flight #1 - North Pole Transect | Science | 8 | 25.1 | 308.5 | |
| 03/10/17 | Science Flight #2 - Laxon Line | Science | 8.5 | 33.6 | 300 | |
| 03/11/17 - 03/12/17 | Science Flight #3 - Chukchi West Line | Science | 8 | 41.6 | 292 | |
| 03/12/17 - 03/13/17 | Science Flight #4 - North Beaufort Loop Line | Science | 8.1 | 49.7 | 283.9 | |
| 03/14/17 - 03/15/17 | Science Flight #5 - East Beaufort Loop Line | Science | 8 | 57.7 | 275.9 | |
| 03/20/17 | Science Flight #6 - Sea Ice South Basin Transect (to Thule) | Science | 8.1 | 65.8 | 267.8 | |
| 03/22/17 | Science Flight #7 - North Flux 02 | Science | 7.9 | 73.7 | 259.9 | |
| 03/23/17 | Science Flight #8 - Zig Zag West Line | Science | 7.9 | 81.6 | 252 | |
| 03/24/17 | Science Flight #9 - CryoVEx Line | Science | 5.8 | 87.4 | 246.2 | |
| 03/27/17 | Science Flight #10 - Northwest Coastal A Line | Science | 7.4 | 94.8 | 238.8 | |
| 03/28/17 | Science Flight #11 - North Central Cap 01 Line | Science | 7.6 | 102.4 | 231.2 | |
| 03/29/17 | Science Flight #12 - Ellesemere Island 01 Line | Science | 7.6 | 110 | 223.6 | |
| 03/30/17 | Science Flight #13 - Ellesemere South Line | Science | 7.9 | 117.9 | 215.7 | |
| 03/31/17 | Science Flight #14- Alexander-Petermann Line | Science | 6.5 | 124.4 | 209.2 | |
| 04/03/17 | Science Flight #15- Zachariae 79N Fram Straight and BGTL ENSB Transit | Science | 7.4 | 131.8 | 201.8 | |
| 04/05/17 | Science Flight #16 - Svalbard North Line (High Priority) | Science | 7 | 138.8 | 194.8 | |
| 04/06/17 | Science Flight #17- Svalbard South Mission (High Priority) | Science | 8.5 | 147.3 | 186.3 | |
| 04/07/17 | Science Flight #18- Combined Zig Zag East Mission and Transit ENSB to BGTL | Science | 8.3 | 155.6 | 178 | |
| 04/10/17 | Science Flight #19- North Central Gap 3 | Science | 7.8 | 163.4 | 170.2 | |
| 04/11/17 | Science Flight #20- CryoVex 2 (High Priority) | Science | 7.8 | 171.2 | 162.4 | |
| 04/12/17 | Science Flight #21-Northwest Coastal C | Science | 7.2 | 178.4 | 155.2 | |
| 04/13/17 | Science Flight #22-North Glaciers 02 Prime (High Priority) | Science | 8.2 | 186.6 | 147 | |
| 04/14/17 | Science Flight #23-IceSat-2 North/CryoSat-2 SARIn | Science | 7 | 193.6 | 140 | |
| 04/17/17 | Science Flight #24-Humboldt 01(High Priority) | Science | 7.8 | 201.4 | 132.2 | |
| 04/19/17 | Science Flight #25-Sea Ice - South Canada Basin (MediumPriority) | Science | 7.8 | 209.2 | 124.4 | |
| 04/20/17 | Transit Flight to Kangerlussuaq | Transit | 3 | 212.2 | 121.4 | |
| 04/21/17 | Science Flight #26-Southeast Coastal | Science | 8 | 220.2 | 113.4 | |
| 04/22/17 | Science Flight #27-Helheim-Kangerd | Science | 7.8 | 228 | 105.6 | |
| 04/24/17 | Science Flight #28-Geikie 01 (High Priority) | Science | 8 | 236 | 97.6 | |
| 04/26/17 | Science Flight #29-Devon-Bylot (Medium Priority) | Science | 7.9 | 243.9 | 89.7 | |
| 04/28/17 | Science Flight #30-Penny 01 (Medium Priority) | Science | 6 | 249.9 | 83.7 | |
| 04/29/17 | Science Flight #31-Thomas - Jakobshavn 01 | Science | 8.4 | 258.3 | 75.3 | |
| 05/01/17 | Science Flight #32-Thomas - Jakobshavn-Eqip-Store | Science | 8.4 | 266.7 | 66.9 | |
| 05/02/17 | Science Flight #33-Thomas - ICESat-2 Central | Science | 7.9 | 274.6 | 59 | |
| 05/03/17 | Science Flight #34-Thomas - Southwest Coastal A | Science | 8.3 | 282.9 | 50.7 | |
| 05/05/17 | Science Flight #35-Helheim-Kangerdlugssuaq Gap B (High Priority) | Science | 8.2 | 291.1 | 42.5 | |
| 05/06/17 | Science Flight #36-Helheim-K-EGIG-Summit | Science | 8 | 299.1 | 34.5 | |
| 05/08/17 | Science Flight #37-Southeast Glaciers 01 (High Priority) | Science | 8 | 307.1 | 26.5 | |
| 05/10/17 | Science Flight #38-Umanaq B (High Priority) | Science | 8 | 315.1 | 18.5 | |
| 05/11/17 | Science Flight #39-ICESat-2 South (High Priority) | Science | 8.1 | 323.2 | 10.4 | |
| 05/12/17 | Science Flight #40-Nuuk Fjords | Science | 1.8 | 325 | 8.6 | |
| 05/13/17 | Transit Flight to Dover DE (to clear customs) | Transit | 6.4 | 331.4 | 2.2 | |
| 05/13/17 | Transit Flight to Wallops Flight Facility | Transit | 0.6 | 332 | 1.6 | |
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OIB - P-3 Orion 04/07/17 Science Report
Mission: Sea Ice - Zigzag East (priority: high)
This mission is a repeat or near-repeat of an OIB flight flown in prior years. It is intended to sample the thick multi-year ice near the Greenland coast as well as the gradient to thinner ice closer to the pole. The eastern- and westernmost gradient lines are IceSat-2 ground tracks. In addition to Level 1 Requirements SI1 and SI2, the mission addresses sea ice level 1 baseline requirement SI3b by sampling thick multi-year ice near the northern coast of Greenland and the poleward gradient towards thinner ice. For 2017, we configure this mission as a transit mission between Thule and Longyearbyen, incorporating a low-altitude survey across the Fram Strait (copied from that portion of the Giles Gateway flight from prior years). We also occupy some 1996/2002 ATM lines over some of the Svalbard ice caps in transit to the sea ice. Finally, we arrived in the Thule vicinity this afternoon with some time to spare, so we took advantage of that by picking up some "mop-up" lines in the Inglefield Fjord and Cape Alexander areas, before we landed. We had missed these short lines during a mission last Friday due to limited airport hours that day.
We enjoyed an almost unbelievable run of favorable weather for our Svalbard evolution this week, starting with our transect across northern Greenland and the Fram Strait on Monday, including our extensive surveys across the eastern Arctic Basin in the middle of the week, and running right through today. We encountered a small area of fog for 30-40 miles of the eastern portion of the Fram Strait today which prevented our collection of optical data along that small stretch, and we encountered a few scattered clouds over the Nares Strait near the end of the flight, but otherwise we enjoyed clear skies and smooth air all day today, for better than 98% successful data return.
All instruments performed well. The ATM team successfully repaired a minor problem with an optical adjustment device on the T5 transceiver last night, and encountered no further problems with it today.
Data volumes:
Accumulation Radar: 309 Gb
ATM: 161 Gb
CAMBOT: 45 Gb
DMS: 123 Gb
FLIR: 16 Gb
KT19: 10 Mb
MCoRDS: 274 Gb
Narrow Swath ATM: 33 Gb
Snow Radar: 1.3 Tb
total data collection time: 7.8 hrs
