| タイトル | Support of Operation Icebrige Using the NASA P-3B Airborne Laboratory |
| 著者（英） | Guillory, Anthony R. |
| 著者所属（英） | NASA Wallops Flight Center |
| 発行日 | 2010-01-01 |
| 言語 | eng |
| 内容記述 | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Wallops Flight Facility's (WFF) P-313 Orion is a medium-lift, four engine turbo-prop aircraft that has been reconfigured from a military aircraft to an Earth Science research platform. The aircraft has a long history of supporting science missions, flying on average over 200 hours per year. Examples of research missions that have been flown aboard the aircraft are remote sensing flights to study geophysical parameters including ice-sheet topography and periodic change, soil moisture content, and atmospheric aerosol constituents. Missions are conducted for the purposes of calibration/validation of various NASA and international satellites, including ICESat-1, that monitor climate change as well as process studies and the test of new prototype remote sensing instruments. Due to the recent demise of the NASA ICESat-1 spacecraft, NASA elected to fill the data void between it and the upcoming ICESat-2 using airborne measurements. This mission is called Operation Ice Bridge (OIB). These measurements are being made from a variety of aircraft, including the P-313. The aircraft is being using to conduct ice surveys of the Arctic, in particular Greenland. The aircraft has been conducting ice surveys of Greenland since 1993 for the purposes of topographic mapping of both the surface and basal topography; therefore, OIB is a natural fit for the aircraft and its crew. Additional measurements of snow depth and gravity have been made as part of OIB. This paper will provide an overview of the P-313 platform and highlight the support for Operation Ice Bridge. |
| NASA分類 | Meteorology and Climatology |
| 権利 | No Copyright |
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