AirGravity Science element:  With reasonable weather last week, OMG’s AirGravity contractor (Sander or SGL), flew four science days last week.  

Kangerlussuaq

AirGravity Science element:  With reasonable weather last week, OMG’s AirGravity contractor (Sander or SGL) flew 4 science days last week.  

SGL flew for a total of 65 flight hours using two research aircraft.

AirGravity Science element: 

With good weather last week, OMG’s AirGravity contractor (Sander, or SGL) deployed to their new location (Kulusuk)  on the South East side of Greenland, and flew 1 science day last week.  SGL flew for a total of 9.5 flight hours. 

Images from South Eastern Greenland, SGL's GPS station, near Kulusuk

AirGravity Science element:  With reasonable weather last week, OMG’s AirGravity contractor (Sander or SGL) flew 15 OMG flight lines, for a total of 25 flight hours. 

Last week, with reasonable weather, OMG’s AirGravity contractor (Sander Geophysics Ltd. -  SGL) flew 32 OMG flight lines, for a total of 28 flight hours. The flight track plot below, shows SGL flying over 4,039 kilometers, and completing the Alison and Upernavik survey areas.

OMG’s Western science area, flight track map

Alison Glacier

Last week, OMG’s AirGravity contractor (SGL) flew six OMG flight lines, for a total of 5.5 flight hours. The flight track plot below, shows SGL completing over 954 kilometers of 5,770 total kilometers planned, or 14 percent of the Cornell survey.

The GLISTIN-A radar aboard the JSC G-III aircraft has completed its two-week Greenland campaign for the Earth Venture Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission.  The Ka-band single-pass interferometer, a sibling instrument of UAVSAR, made high resolution, high precision elevation measurements of Greenland’s coastal glaciers for the spring season.  

Late last week, OMG received the very first quick look preliminary data from the Cape Race cruise this summer. This data will be loaded on the OMG data server, and will be available to the OMG science team and public.  

On Monday September 21, OMG's survey ship completed the 2015 Western Greenland survey.  The ship surveyed more than 4,250 nautical miles, and acquired more than 300 Conductivity, Temperature Depth (CTD) sonar calibration casts. 

The crew returned to Seattle with all the survey data. OMG's raw survey data will be calibrated, NETCDF formatted and the final product sent to JPL by January 15, 2016.

Last week, OMG survey ship surveyed 197 nautical miles and supported 11 Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD) profiles.

Below is the Melville Bay, quick look survey plots.