ORACLES
P-3 Plan of the Day
Saturday, July 30th has been scheduled for ORACLES P-3 Engineering Check Flight. No science team access, these are aircrew only.
The Operations Schedule, as it stands now, for Sunday, July 31 is as follows:
0800-0900 – Safety Video/Brief, D-1 Hangar South 2nd Floor Breakout room
0900-1000 - Load Test P-3 Electrical (All instruments ON)
1000-1200 – PIs/Instrumenters prep for Project Test Flight
1200-1600 – Project Test Flight
1600-1630 – Power down
1630-1700 – Post Flight De-brief
This is, of course subject to change but we must start somewhere. Any changes will be distributed ASAP.
Zuidema, C.F., et al. (2016), Interactions: Smoke and Clouds above the Southeast Atlantic Upcoming Field Campaigns Probe Absorbing Aerosol’s Impact on Climate, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 19-23, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00082.1.
A new NASA airborne field experiment planned for this summer will make key airborne measurements of clouds and smoke particles over the southeastern Atlantic Ocean to help scientists understand a major challenge to our understanding of climate science.
Date
Final date of Swakopmund Hotel room block (NASA)
As discussed the block will only be held until the end of the month and thereafter booked based on availability and booked individually and not as a group.
With this we can then work on the following:
Rooms will be kept until 18h00 on day of arrival unless otherwise assured or guaranteed.
Full pre-payment of the accommodation amount is required in order to secure your booking.
Check-in is from 14h00 and check-out is by 10h00.