The scanning microwave radiometer-7 simulator, the ocean temperature scanner, and an imaging scatterometer/altimeter operating at 14 GHz were carried onboard the NASA CV-990 over open oceans, sea ice, and continental ice sheets to gather surface truth information. Data flights were conducted over the Norwegian Sea to map the ocean polar front south and west of Bear Island and to transect several Nimbus-7 footprints in a rectangular pattern parallel to the northern shoreline of Norway. Additional flights were conducted to obtain correlative data on the cryosphere parameters and characteristics of the Greenland ice sheet, and study the frozen lakes near Barrow. The weather conditions and flight path way points for each of the nineteen flights are presented in tables and maps.
Overseas Trip Report, Cv 990 Underflight Mission
1980
95 pages
Report
No indication
English
Snow, Ice, & Permafrost , Physical & Chemical Oceanography , Aerial reconnaissance , Aircraft , Alaska , Arctic ocean , Beaufort sea (North america) , Cv-990 aircraft , Greenland , Ice , Ice mapping , Islands , Lakes , Land , Marine meteorology , Microwave radiometers , Microwave sensors , Nimbus satellites , Ocean surface , P-3 aircraft , Sea ice , Sea truth , Sea water , Surface temperature , Thermal mapping
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