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: 03 Oct, 2016, 21:40 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. Tuesday, Oct 04, 2016 

*Aircraft schedule:* 

* *DLR Falcon* 

>*2 Flights planned for Tuesday*

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>05:00 --- Power on the aircraft

>07:00 --- Pulling the aircraft out of Hangar, Fueling

>08:00 --- Take-Off (approx. flight time: 3:30h)

>11:30 --- Landing

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>12:00 --- Fueling

>13:10 --- Take-Off (approx. flight time: 2:30h)

>15:40 --- Landing

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>Flight Crew: Philipp Weber, Stefan Grillenbeck, David Woudsma, Benjamin Witschas, Oliver Lux 

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*%{color:green}Meeting times for entry into the airport at Golden Gate%* 

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>%{color:green} **04:30** (Engelbert, Oliver, Olli, Benny, David); Gate -> Hangar: Engelbert, Olli%

*%{color:red}Meeting times for entry into the airport at Silver Gate%* 

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>%{color:red} **07:00** (Stefan  Grillenbeck, Philipp Weber); Gate -> Hangar: Katrin/Stefan%

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* *DLR HALO* 

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>06:45 --- Power on the aircraft

>08:55 --- Short power intermission of about 5 minutes

>09:00 --- Pushing HALO out of the Hangar

>09:10 --- Power available via Ground Power Unit outside on the Apron

>09:30 --- Short power intermission of about 1 minute

>09:30 --- Fueling

>10:00 --- Scientific Pre-Flight Briefing (Crew only)

>11:00 --- Take-Off (approx. flight time: 08:30h)

>19:30 --- Landing (then approx. 10 in APU power on the Apron)

>20:00 --- De-briefing in the hangar

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>Flight crew:Roland Welser, Steffen Gemsa, Tommy Leder, Christian Keil (Mission Scientist onboard), Heike Konow, Marek Jacob, Manuel Gutleben, Silke Groß, Kevin Wolf 

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*%{color:green}Meeting times for entry into the airport at Silver Gate%* 

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>%{color:green} **06:30** M. Hagen, L. Hirsch, M. Klingebiel, M. Hellmann, M. Wirth, D. Ene, A. Fix, C. Grad, S. Hempe, S. Storhas, K. Witte; Gate -> Hangar: Engelbert, Katrin/Christoph%

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>%{color:green} **08:00** T. Koelling, T. Carlsen, L. Höppler; Gate -> Hangar: Katrin%

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>%{color:green} **09:00** S. Gemsa, R. Welser, T. Leder, C. Mallaun, M. Zöger, T. Carlsen, K. Wolf; Gate -> Hangar: Katrin%

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>%{color:green} **09:30** C. Keil, H. Konow, M. Jacob, M. Gutleben, S. Groß, M. Böttcher, T. Spengler; Gate -> Hangar: Katrin%

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h3. Monday, Oct 03, 2016 

*Aircraft schedule:* 

* *DLR Falcon* 

>**no flight**

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>09:00 - 16:00 --- Power on the aircraft

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*%{color:green}Meeting times for entry into the airport at Silver Gate%* 

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>%{color:green} **08:30** (Engelbert, Oliver, Olli, Benny, Stephan, David); Gate -> Hangar: Engelbert, Olli%

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* *DLR HALO* 

> tbd (due to repair)

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h2. Responsibilities

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

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

| Scientific Manager: | Jim Doyle |  James.Doyle[at]nrlmry.navy.mil | X |

| Technical Manager: | X |  X | X |

| Chief Forecaster: | Julian Quinting |  julian.quinting[at]monash.edu | X |

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

| Coordinator Ground-Based Observations: | Jacob Maddison | j.maddison[at]pgr.reading.ac.uk | |

| Mission Scientist (D-CMET) 02. Oct| Oliver Reitebuch| oliver.reitebuch[at]dlr.de | +354 8667413 |

| Mission Scientist (D-ADLR) | | | X |

| Mission Scientist (ground) | | | X |

| DLR-FX Operations | Stefan Hempe| stefan.hempe[at]dlr.de | +49 172 20 00 688 |

| DLR-FX Project manager in Keflavik | 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 and Aircraft Status Matrix (from 3 Okt 2016, 09:00 UTC)

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

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