Overseas trip report, CV 990 underflight mission

• Main Authors: Crawford, J., Gloersen, P., Hardis, L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1980
• Subjects: EARTH RESOURCES AND REMOTE SENSING; Norwegian Sea; Greenland; Norway; Bear Island; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19800017266

The scanning microwave radiometer-7 simulator, the ocean temperature scanner, and an imaging scatterometer/altimeter operating at 14 GHz were carried onboard the NASA CV-990 over open oceans, sea ice, and continental ice sheets to gather surface truth information. Data flights were conducted over the Norwegian Sea to map the ocean polar front south and west of Bear Island and to transect several Nimbus-7 footprints in a rectangular pattern parallel to the northern shoreline of Norway. Additional flights were conducted to obtain correlative data on the cryosphere parameters and characteristics of the Greenland ice sheet, and study the frozen lakes near Barrow. The weather conditions and flight path way points for each of the nineteen flights are presented in tables and maps.