UW CV-580 completes last of 23 flights (8 over Ship); returns to
Seattle 6/25.
6/10
FIRE.ACE Project Office temporarily closes; to reopen 7/5 for C-130
Phase II flights.
6/9
FIRE.ACE web page moves temporarily back to NASA-Langley (under a
different URL); will move back to Fairbanks (under original URL) on
7/5.
6/8
ER-2 returns to NASA-DSRC.
5/29
C-130 returns to NCAR-Boulder.
5/29
NASA Headquarters released Press Release 98-89 entitled: "FIRE
and Ice: Arctic Expedition Probes Role of Clouds in Climate
Change."
5/28
Mid-Project Review was held at the University of Alaska auditorium to
present and discuss measurements and preliminary findings for the 8 Phase I
C-130 flights, the first 6 ER-2 flights, and the first 6 University of
Washington CV-580 flights.
5/15
The UWA CV-580 arrived at Barrow. The first flight will be a local
checkout flight and is being planned for 5/17.
5/13
The NASA ER-2 arrived at Fairbanks. The first flight will be to the
Ship and is being planned for 5/15.
5/5
Interim Experiment Review was held to discuss measurements and
preliminary findings for the completed Canadian CV-580 flight phase (18
flights).
5/2
The NCAR C-130 arrived at Fairbanks. The first flight will be to the
Ship and is being planned for 5/4.
4/29
The Canadian CV-580 completed 68.4 flight hours and the last of 18
flights.
4/27
The FIRE Project Office opened at Fairbanks.
4/24
The Operations Website is on-line at
http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov (under "New at Langley DAAC", select
"FIRE.ACE Home Page"). The web page is initially available from a
server located at Langley and will be moved to a server located at Fairbanks
on 5/1 where it will be on-line at http://fireace.fire.nasa.gov.
4/16
Weekly SHEBA Science Summaries appear on this site under "Daily
Activities/Daily Reports/Ship" link.
4/9
The NOAA-NCEP operational sea ice forecast now has a link from this
site. The link appears under"Measurements/Models" link.
Reports for each Canadian CV-580 flight appears on this site under
"Daily Activities/Daily Reports/Planes" link.
4/8
The Canadian AES-CMC is providing back-trajectories which are now
accesible through ftp://ftp.cmc.ec.gc.ca/incoming/FIRE_III/ Back trajectories
use 48 hours of history data. The last point is the station location. The web
page above provides 5 trajectories, including Ship, Barrow, and Inuvik points.
This link appears on this site under "Measurements/Models"
link.
4/5
Taneil Uttal, FIRE Surface Scientist, is providing daily reports
from the SHEBA Ship about weather and systems conditions. They appear on
this site under "Daily Reports" link.
