NAWDEX - North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment

h1. Blog for the 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 question before the campaign starts, please contact: *andreas.schaefler[at]dlr.de*

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h2. Schedule

h3. For 12/13 September 2016 (all times are LT (UTC+2h))



* *Thursday, *Monday, Sept 15:* 12:*

** possible test flight Falcon

* *Wednesday, Sept 14:* 10:00 Installation of specMACS in the boiler room (Tobi, DLR-FX)

** 08:00 --- 10:30 HALO on the ramp for aircraft tests (until approx. 12:00, power available if required) Web conference - Planning Meeting

** afternoon --- HALO training flight (required) (time tbd; duration ca. 30 min; instruments have to remain off)

13:00 Installation of HAMP radiometer (Mario, DLR-FX)

* *Tuesday, Sept 13:*

** 08:00 Installation of HAMP radar (Lutz, Heike, DLR-FX)

** 10:30 Web conference - Planning Meeting

** 15:00 Meeting at DLR-FX: final discussion on HALO/Falcon transfers

* *Monday, *Wednesday, Sept 12:* 14:*

** 10:00 08:00 --- Installation of specMACS in HALO on the boiler room (Tobi, DLR-FX) ramp for aircraft tests (until approx. 12:00, power available if required)

** 10:30 Web conference - Planning Meeting afternoon --- HALO training flight (required) (time tbd; duration ca. 30 min; instruments have to remain off)

* *Thursday, Sept 15:*

** 13:00 ??:?? --- Installation of HAMP radiometer (Mario, DLR-FX)

Ferry flight planned (tbc)

h3. First days in Iceland:

* *Mon, 12 Sep:* beginning of the planning meetings (daily meetings at 8:30 UTC until Thu, 15 Sep, then 11 UTC from Iceland)

* *Thu, 15 Sep:* arrival of HALO and most of the flight planning and instrument teams

* *Fri, 16 Sep:* setup of the operation center and offices at the airport, flight planning with an announcement of first plans for Mon 19 Sep

* *Sat, 17 Sep:* HALO and potential day-off for HALO; arrival of Falcon transfer

* *Sun, 18 Sep:* day-off kick-off-meeting (9-10 UTC): information for all participants

* *Mon, 19 Sep:* first possible flight planning day

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h2. Responsibilities

| *Position* | *Name* | *Contact (Email*) | *mobile phone* |
| HALO/Falcon Campaign Steering Group:| X | X | X |
| Scientific Manager: | X | X | X |
| Technical Manager: | X | X | X |
| Chief Forecaster: | X | X | X |
| Instrument Manager: | X | X | X |
| Coordinator Ground-Based Observations: | X | X | X |
| Mission Scientist XX. Sep| X| X | X |
| Mission Scientist XX. Sep| X| X | X |
| DLR-FX Operations | X| X | X |
| DLR-FX Project manager in Keflavik (until Sep 30) | Andreas Minikin | andreas.minikin@dlr.de | +49 174 951 1618 |
| DLR-FX Project manager in Keflavik (from Sep 30) | Katrin Witte | katrin.witte@dlr.de | +49 172 741 3066 |


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h2. Planning Summary Matrix (from XX Sep 2016, XX:XX UTC)

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h2. Instrument Status Matrix (from XX Sep 2016, XX:XX UTC)

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

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