Well this blog will have to be a quick one, I can barely keep my eyes open.
Today we did get up in the air, and landed on the ice. However, we first had to land at a different spot and wait for 1.5 hours for fog to clear over our actual measurement site. This meant that we didn’t get to start our measurements until 13:30 and we had to leave by 6pm. It was a bit rushed but still quite successful.
We performed over 800 snow depth measurements, acquired EM31 (ground based electromagnetic induction) measurements of sea ice thickness, performed drill hole measurements of sea ice thickness and the UCL team used their ground based radar at one of the corner reflectors.
All in all a very good day for the ground team. What was also quite exciting was the fact that the NASA “IceBridge” P3, the Alfred Wegener Institute Polar 5 DC3, the Danish Twin Otter carrying ASIRAS (an airborne version of the Cryosat sensor) were all in the air along the same Cryosat (which also passed overhead today) track today.
The plan is to do the same thing tomorrow morning but this evenings infra-red image looks a bit cloudy so we will have to see what the weather brings.
No pictures today but hopefully when I am back in Resolute the bandwidth
Well that is all, I am quite happy with our success so far.
Justin
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