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Call minutes – Inner Shelf DRI ship ops (June/20/2017) Attendees: Amy Waterhouse, Jen MacKinnon, André Palóczy, Ata Suanda, John Colosi. SIO aircraft group (Luc and Ken): Make sure some of the flights overlap with ship tracks. Want to look for surface signature of IWs and track them. Also interested in fronts and flow separation at Pt. Sal. Will arrive at … Read More

Call minutes – Inner Shelf DRI ship ops (June/05/2017) Attendees: Amy Waterhouse, Jen MacKinnon, Jack Barth, André Palóczy, Chris Chickadel, Melissa Moulton. Info from UW aircraft group (Chris and Melissa): Interested in surfzone-inner shelf exchange, fronts and surface signature of IWs and bores. Can fly up to 8 h/day, refuel after 4 h and return to survey. ~1 h of transit. … Read More

Call minutes – Inner Shelf DRI ship ops (May/26/2017) Attendees: Amy Waterhouse, Jen MacKinnon, André Palóczy, Jim Lerczak, Kate Adams, John Colosi. Soliton chasing module comments: The purpose of the longer line in the IW chasing document is to get a sense of deep to shallow transition. Jim L.: We need to think about the spacing between ships chasing the … Read More

Call minutes – Inner Shelf DRI ship ops (May/05/2017 and May/16/2017) Soliton chasing module (8-12 h, nighttime): Data from the Pilot experiment: High-frequency IWs dissipate at ~15-30 m, signal is very messy and weak around the rocky outcrop, but could still make out some of it. Between 50 m and 30 m, signal of the packet was clear. If Biosonics echosounders … Read More