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<\/a>Temperature profiles from flights flown so far today. We are trying\u00a0to keep going until 930 pm!<\/p><\/div>\n
Because we’re still having some issues with our autopilot and interference, we’ve done most of this profiling under manual control. \u00a0I can’t tell you how happy I am to have Will and Nathan along on this trip — they do an incredible job safely flying this small platform up to heights where I can hardly make it out against the sky. \u00a0The photo below shows what the aircraft looks like at 100 m altitude — but we have routinely seen flights up to 500 m and beyond under manual control! \u00a0Incredible…<\/p>\n
<\/a>The DataHawk 2 soaring at around 100 m above the surface, as seen from below.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Gijs preparing a DataHawk 2 for launch.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The DataHawk 2 preparing to land, with the AMF3 and hangar in the background.<\/p><\/div>\n
Amazing to think that tomorrow we already pack up our gear to prepare to return home. \u00a0While it seems like our time here has been relatively short, when I think back to arriving in Anchorage, it already seems like a very long time ago. \u00a0We’re calling around to the various oil companies in order to do our best to anticipate any upcoming rig moves — we really don’t want to get stuck behind one and miss our flights home. \u00a0I think that the whole team is feeling ready to get back to Colorado and a bit more summer weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today has been (and continues to be — lots of daylight on the North Slope right now!) a day filled with profiling of the atmosphere. \u00a0We started right at 8 am this morning, and have been doing our best to get profiles every half hour, only breaking for meals. \u00a0As the figure below shows, so… 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-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-29 00:48:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/erasmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}