{"id":149,"date":"2016-10-22T05:49:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T05:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/alaska-unmanned-3\/?p=149"},"modified":"2016-10-22T05:49:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T05:49:19","slug":"wrapping-up-but-the-work-is-just-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/alaska-unmanned-3\/2016\/10\/22\/wrapping-up-but-the-work-is-just-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrapping up, but the work is just beginning…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The team pauses for a photo at the ice edge. The ice piles in the background had been stacking up along the coast since last night due to the force of the wind pushing it on shore.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Our final day at Oliktok Point was a fairly quiet one. \u00a0As the forecast predicted, the winds kicked up to around 20 mph this morning, and didn’t get any better from there. \u00a0Doug and I made an attempt to get a plane up this morning, but a combination of wind, visibility, and aircraft issues prevented us from flying. \u00a0Therefore, we spent the rest of the morning getting stuff ready for the trip back, packing our stuff back at the camp, and doing some initial data analysis on the flights completed so far.<\/p>\n

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The flight tracks from all of the DataHawk flights from this campaign. \u00a0A lot of profiles and loiter circles!<\/p><\/div>\n

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The last time we had a DataHawk campaign up here<\/a>, I did a “by the numbers” summary at the end. \u00a0I figured I’d do a quick comparison between this time around and the last. \u00a0Below, I\u00a0summarize this trip (last summer’s\u00a0numbers are in parentheses):<\/p>\n