Update

Hey All,

Well I can't remember when I wrote last so I may repeat some information and
may not. Since the Cryosat flight on the 8th we went north to 79degrees and
did some work there (CTDs for the oceanographers and a two flights with the
bird and some ice stations). Today we did another underflight of the
Cryosat satellite track. This time we had better flying conditions and I
was quite happy with the result. However as soon as we finished our second
path along the flight track we had snow come in quickly and we had to stop
measuring and go back to the ship.

I'm hoping for good flying and ice conditions tomorrow so that we can do a
couple flights and get some overview. The problem is sometimes we have only
so/so flying conditions which limits the distance we can go away from the
ship and other days we have very little ice which also limits how far we can
go from the ship. The pilots justifiably do not like flying over large
stretches of open water at 100 feet (which means the EM bird is at 45 feet),
or when the weather is poor.

Other than that I have just spent the evening catching up on data management
and some processing.
We had an issue with the EM bird yesterday, two separate connectors broke
resulting in some trouble shooting but all is good now.

Well that is it for now more info soon.

Cheers

Justin