{"id":132,"date":"2016-10-21T07:34:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T07:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/alaska-unmanned-3\/?p=132"},"modified":"2016-10-21T07:36:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T07:36:26","slug":"some-photos-from-a-long-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/alaska-unmanned-3\/2016\/10\/21\/some-photos-from-a-long-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Some photos from a long day…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was a beautiful day on the North Slope! \u00a0Low clouds formed over Oliktok Point, replacing the clear weather we’d seen yesterday. \u00a0This set up a very interesting scene, with\u00a0the clouds supported by an air layer that was not the same one as was being observed at the surface. \u00a0A perfect reason to deploy some unmanned aircraft and a tethered balloon to see what’s going on up there! \u00a0We didn’t waste the opportunity, and sampled the atmosphere from sun up until well after sunset. \u00a0It was\u00a0a very long day, so for the time being I’ll let the photos do the talking!<\/p>\n

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The tethered balloon getting ready for flight, as seen from a morning DataHawk flight.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Dancing

Dancing among the clouds — A DataHawk samples the cloud base environment high over Oliktok Point.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Temperature

Temperature profiles from today’s flights, showing the evolution of the surface and cloud-driven layers.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"The

The newly forming sea ice, as seen from 20 meters altitude\u00a0during a DataHawk flight this afternoon.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"The

The tethered balloon during a good snow squall. \u00a0It looks as though Carl’s VIPS instrument was able to sample some significant\u00a0snowfall today.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Eric,

Eric, a member\u00a0of the tethered balloon crew, bringing the POPS (top) and VIPS (bottom) instruments back in after a long day of sampling.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Al,

Al, Carl and Matt working to get the last few meters of tether in at the end of the day. All smiles — thanks to everyone for helping to get some great measurements today!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was a beautiful day on the North Slope! \u00a0Low clouds formed over Oliktok Point, replacing the clear weather we’d seen yesterday. \u00a0This set up a very interesting scene, with\u00a0the clouds supported by an air layer that was not the same one as was being observed at the surface. \u00a0A perfect reason to deploy some… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-19 14:42:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/alaska-unmanned-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/alaska-unmanned-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/alaska-unmanned-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/alaska-unmanned-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/alaska-unmanned-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/alaska-unmanned-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/alaska-unmanned-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/alaska-unmanned-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/alaska-unmanned-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/alaska-unmanned-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}