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OMG – Oceans Melting Greenland / Earth Ventures – 2

OMG‘s Airborne eXpendable Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth (AXCTD):  OMG completed the last two flights on 10 & 11 September and flew a total of 15 additional science flight hours. This brings the total number of probes deployed to 239, successfully completing the survey for this year.

OMG science and surveys were featured in a major news article published by Reuters on 19 September:  https://graphics.reuters.com/CLIMATECHANGE-GREENLAND/010080DH0S2/index.html

OMG – Oceans Melting Greenland / Earth Ventures – 2

On Wednesday, 22 August, OMG departed Goose Bay, and successfully launched 13 AXCTD probes in South East Greenland and landed at Kulusuk, Greenland.

The next two days 23-24 August, OMG deployed 60 AXCTD 60 in South East Greenland. On 25 August, OMG flew north to Scoresby Sound fjords and launched an additional 16 AXCTDs. For the four science flight days, OMG deployed 89 AXCTDS probes!

OMG – Oceans Melting Greenland / Earth Ventures – 2

OMG‘s Airborne eXpendable Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth (AXCTD):  Last week, the AXCTD team installed three adjustable attenuators into the distribution amplifier module.  With the attenuators installed, cables with the proper length could be ordered.  Early next week, the team expects all the required cables to be delivered and final bench testing can be started.

OMG’S GLISTIN-A Radar mission:  Last week, OMG’s GLISTIN-A team started processing OMG’s 2018 GLISTIN-A data.  Three lines were processed, including Jakboshavn glacier.

OMG – Oceans Melting Greenland / Earth Ventures – 2

On 6 March, GLISTIN- A flew from Bangor, acquired radar data from 3 science flight lines, and landed at Kanger, Greenland.

On 7 March, GLISTIN-A flew 10 science flight lines and on 8 March, 12 science lines were flown. Sunday, 11 March was a down day for JSC crew change.  This week, OMG GLISTIN-A flew a total of 32 of 84 science flight lines

GLISTIN-A Flight track for 7 March

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