P-3 Orion 04/13/17
From: | BGTL | To: | BGTL | ||
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Start: | 04/13/17 10:45 Z | Finish: | 04/13/17 18:58 Z | ||
Flight Time: | 8.2 hours | ||||
Log Number: | 17P006 | PI: | Nathan Kurtz | ||
Funding Source: | Bruce Tagg - NASA - SMD - ESD Airborne Science Program | ||||
Purpose of Flight: | Science |
17P006 | |
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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 04/14/17 Science Report
Mission: IceSat-2 North/CryoSat-2 SARIn (priority: baseline)
This mission is designed to overfly planned IceSat-2 ground tracks over a wide range of ice regimes near Thule. We center some of the flightlines on each of three beam pairs (left, nadir and right) in turn, sampling at least one of each beam pair during this mission. The east-west crossing line is designed to capture as many ascending/descending crossovers as possible. We also fly a particular flowline of Petermann Glacier which has been sampled intermittently during the ATM and OIB eras, overflying two GCNet sites in the process, and also overflying a recently-identified rift near the center of Petermann's floating ice shelf. Finally we overfly two core sites near Thule, known as “2Barrels” and “North Ice Cap”. The flight also crosses the CryoSat-2 SARIn mode pass in this area. We had to shorten the flight by skipping roughly the northern half of the easternmost two IceSat-2 lines, due to abbreviated Friday Thule airfield hours.
Weather in northwest Greenland today was dominated by weak outflow for most of northwest Greenland, giving us a descending (and thus warming and drying) air mass for most of this flight line. An exception was in the area east and south of Thule, which was experiencing some onshore winds from the south which produced some thin stratus in those areas. These dissipated during the day giving us clear skies after our initial climbout and first data line. Overall we estimate 98% successful data collection today, with all of the loss due to clouds on the southern portion of the first, westernmost IceSat-2 line.
All instruments performed well.
Data volumes:
Accumulation Radar: 1.2 Gb
ATM: 138 Gb
CAMBOT: 38 Gb
DMS: 90 Gb
FLIR: 14 Gb
KT19: 10 Mb
MCoRDS: 1.6 Tb
Narrow Swath ATM: 26 Gb
Snow Radar: 1.3 Tb
total data collection time: 6.7 hrs