NAWDEX - North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment

h1. NAWDEX 2016 Campaign (HALO & Falcon)

This is the official blog for the NAWDEX campaign, a webpage that can be edited by all NAWDEX team members that are registered. The aim is to inform all NAWDEX participants and interested colleagues about the campaign and to share the planning material. If you need information about the international NAWDEX Project please refer to http://nawdex.org/ and for the HALO/Falcon Project please refer to http://www.pa.op.dlr.de/nawdex/

In case you should have any questions please contact: *andreas.schaefler[at]dlr.de*

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h2. NAWDEX daily campaign schedule 

_[last change: 19 Sep, 2016, 16:35 UT]_

If not stated otherwise, all timings given below after September 18 are referring to UT, which is LT in Iceland.

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h3. Wednesday, Sept 21, 2016

* %{color:red}Tentative schedule:%

* *DLR Falcon*

>12:15 --- Power on the aircraft 

>13:25 --- Power off

>13:35 --- Leave hangar / APU power / refueling

>14:50 --- Take-Off

>Meeting with HALO at N 66°42' W 18°18' at 15:25 UTC

>ETA Keflavik: 18:30 UTC

* *DLR HALO*, 

>10:00 --- Power on the aircraft 

>12:25 --- Power off

>12:30 --- Leave hangar / APU power / refueling

>13:45 --- Take-Off

>Satellite Overpass at N 65°00' W 22°00' at 14:40 UTC 

>Meeting with DLR Falcon at N 66°42' W 18°18' at 15:25 UTC

>ETA Keflavik: 18:45 UTC 

h3. Tuesday, Sept 20, 2016

*Aircraft*

* Falcon 

> 10:00-19:30 --- Access to aircraft / power on the aircraft

* HALO

>10:00-19:30 --- Access to aircraft / power on the aircraft

>10:15 Briefing at the aircraft for planning of instrument work on the day

h3. Monday, Sept 19, 2016 

*Meetings*

* **08:30** --- Campaign Kick-off meeting (Operations Center)

 Agenda:

 * de-briefing of Saturday’s flights

 * scientific introduction into the campaign

 * logistics/safety at Keflavik airport

 * regulations for work at both aircraft

 * typical daily schedule 

* **11:00** --- General flight planning meeting at Operations Center (scientists)

* **12:30** --- Flight planning meeting at Operations Center (pilots/ops/mission scientist only)

*Aircraft*

* Falcon 

>approx. 10:30-18:00 --- Access to aircraft / power on the aircraft

* HALO

>approx. 10:30-18:00 --- Access to aircraft / power on the aircraft

>10:45 Briefing at the aircraft for planning of instrument work on the day

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h3. Sunday, Sept 18, 2016 

* *Day-off*, no access to aircraft 

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h3. *Friday, Sept 16, 2016*

* *Falcon* 

>all day until 15:00 --- power on the aircraft for instrument work (Engelbert, Benni, Christian, Oliver)

* *HALO*

>all day until 15:00 --- power on the aircraft (service on SpecMacs and WALES)

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h2. Responsibilities

| *Position* | *Name* | *Contact (Email*) | *mobile phone* |

| HALO/Falcon Campaign Steering Group:|  X | X | X |

| Scientific Manager: | George Craig |  george.craig[at]lmu.de | X |

| Technical Manager: | X |  X | X |

| Chief Forecaster: | Christian Grams |  christian.grams[at]env.ethz.ch | X |

| Instrument Manager: | Manuel Gutleben |  manuel.gutleben[at]dlr.de | X |

| Coordinator Ground-Based Observations: | Ben Harvey |  b.j.harvey[at]reading.ac.uk | X |

| Mission Scientist (D-CMET) 21. Sep| Oliver Reitebuch| X | X |

| Mission Scientist (D-ADLR) 21. Sep| Florian Pantillon| florian.pantillon[at]kit.edu | X |

| Mission Scientist (ground) 21. Sep| Julian Quinting | julian.quinting[at]monash.edu | X |

| DLR-FX Operations | Frank Probst | frank.probst[at]dlr.de | +49 152 015 22 498 |

| DLR-FX Project manager in Keflavik (until Sep 30) | Andreas Minikin | andreas.minikin[at]dlr.de | +49 174 951 1618 |

| DLR-FX Project manager in Keflavik (from Sep 30) | Katrin Witte | katrin.witte[at]dlr.de | +49 172 741 3066 |

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h2. Planning Summary Matrix (from 19 Sep 2016, 23:25 UTC)

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h2. Instrument Status Matrix (from 19 Sep 2016, 08:00 UTC)

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h2. Observation Coordination Matrix( from XX Sep 2016, XX:XX UTC)

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