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Ice falls…from Spec Inc. Learjet during Science Flight #7. Photo credit – Ted Fisher (SPEC)

ARCSIX 08/09/24 Mission Daily Schedule

POD August 9, 2024 —  (SF#8 P-3 and Spec, Inc. LearJet, SF#4 G-III)
 
Updates:
Successful SF#7 for the P-3 and Learjet, and SF#3 for the G-III. 
ARCSIX-2 group photo in front of Hangar 8 with all aircrafts after P-3 lands (~4pm) 
ARCSIX Open House Sunday, Aug 11 from 0900 - 1100  
 
All:
0415 - Go No-Go (WhatsApp message, Flight Ops Channel) 
0930 - Forecasting and Flight Planning, Danish School (Hybrid)
1600 - Flight Debrief (Hangar 8 conference room)
 

NASA Returns to Arctic Studying Summer Sea Ice Melt

The NASA-sponsored Arctic Radiation Cloud Aerosol Surface Interaction Experiment (ARCSIX) mission is flying three aircraft over the Arctic Ocean north of Greenland to study these processes. The aircraft are equipped with instruments to gather observations of surface sea ice, clouds, and aerosol particles, which affect the Arctic energy budget and cloud properties. The energy budget is the balance between the energy that Earth receives from the Sun and the energy the Earth loses to outer space.

ARCSIX 08/08/24 Mission Daily Schedule

POD August 8, 2024 —  (SF#7 P-3 and Spec, Inc. LearJet, SF#3 G-III)
 
Updates:
Successful SF#6 for the P-3 and Learjet, and SF#2 for the G-III
 
ARCSIX-2 group photo with all aircrafts – Friday, Aug 9 (time TBD) 
 
ARCSIX Open House Sunday, Aug 11 from 0900 - 1100 
 
All:
0415 - Go No-Go (WhatsApp message, Flight Ops Channel) 
0930 - Forecasting and Flight Planning, Danish School (Hybrid)
1600 - Flight Debrief (Hangar 8 conference room)
 

ARCSIX 08/06/24 Mission Daily Schedule

Updates:
Today’s flights scrubbed due to under limits TAFs (Terminal Aerodrome Forecast) 

All:
0415 - Go No-Go (WhatsApp message, Flight Ops Channel) 
0930 - Forecasting and Flight Planning, Danish School (Hybrid)
1600 - Flight Debrief (Hangar 8 conference room)

ARCSIX 08/02/24 Mission Daily Schedule

Updates:
Successful P-3 and Learjet RF#4

All:
0415 - Go No-Go (WhatsApp message, Flight Ops Channel) 
0930 - Forecasting and Flight Planning, Danish School (Hybrid)
1600 - Flight Debrief (Hangar 8 conference room)

ARCSIX 08/03/24 Mission Daily Schedule

Updates:
Another successful P3 science flight, #5.
G-III arrived in Pituffik and is preparing instruments for next week.
LearJet successfully repaired and flight-tested the instrument.
We reached the half point of flight days in the 2nd ARCSIX Deployment.

All:
No flight planning tomorrow

P-3 Schedule:
0800 -- 1630 Power On, Instrument Access, Maintenance

ARCSIX 08/04/24 Mission Daily Schedule

All: 
All events in Bldg. 201 (Danish School)
0930 - Forecasting and Flight Planning 
1600 - Pilots Brief
1630 - 1730 Science Team Meeting

P-3 Schedule:
0800 -- 1630 Power On, Instrument Access, Maintenance

ARCSIX 08/05/24 Mission Daily Schedule

All:
0415 - Go No-Go (WhatsApp message, Flight Ops Channel) 
0930 - Forecasting and Flight Planning, Danish School (Hybrid)
1600 - Flight Debrief (Hangar 8 conference room)
 
P-3 Schedule:
0430 - P-3 Power and Instrument Access (if No-go revert to 0800-1600 access)
0700 - Preflight Briefing (Hangar 8 conference room)
0720 - Doors Close (NOTE NEW TIME)
0800 - P-3 Takeoff
1545 - Landing (approximate time)
1600 - Flight Debrief Brief (Hangar 8 conference room)
 

Second Stop: The 2019 Arctic Tundra Fire in Greenland

July 29th, 2024 by Sonja Granqvist/University of Helsinki A combined team from the University of Helsinki (Environmental Change Research Unit), the Finnish Meteorological Institute (Atmospheric Composition Unit), and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Climate & Ecosystems Change) was on its way again to gather groundbreaking data on carbon and aerosol emissions from increasing fires in the northern high latitudes. Our journey began in boreal Quebec and now continues to Arctic Greenland.

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