Updates on the ISOBAR campaign on Hailuoto, Finland
Today was the final day in the 2018 Winter Olympics. It turns out that this campaign was represented by the 4 highest ranked countries in the Olympics. In fact, the 5th ranked country, Netherlands, is also part of the ISOBAR project, though not represented in the field. But the medal standing was not complete for Read More …
IOP4 is now over after fog came rolling in and caused heavy icing on the SUMO at around 3:30 local time last night. Before that, we measured several cold pool events with up to 4°C difference over a vertical distance of 5 meters. The first pronounced cold pool event started at 14 UTC and ended Read More …
Every now and then something unexpected happens. It’s important to check and maintain our instruments in order to exploit our weather windows. Some of our Bebop quadcopters have been a bit unstable lately. Instead of staying at the programmed altitude, they have been oscillating up and down with a vertical distance of up to 8 Read More …
During one of our SUMO flights today, Andrew noticed from the Ground Control Station that the SUMO had problems climbing further up in a cloud layer at around 480 m height. We suspected this was due to icing and decided to land the aircraft. Well down on the sea ice, our suspicions were confirmed: Heavy Read More …