Team members from the U.S. Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Canada’s York University and University of Alberta arrived last week in Inuvik in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
From left: Chris Hiemstra and Bruce Elder (both CRREL), Christian Haas (York University), and Justin Beckers (University of Alberta).
The team are going to support ESA’s CryoVex campaign to validate measurements of ice thickness from the CryoSat mission.
From there, the team travelled by Twin Otter to Sachs Harbor, en route to an ice camp in the Beaufort Sea. The ice camp is operated by the U.S. Office of Naval Research Marginal Ice Zone Project.
At the ice camp the team will perform extensive measurements of snow and ice properties, in particular snow thickness at dedicated validation sites. The sites will be overflown by an aircraft carrying ESA’s ASIRAS instrument operated by DTU, and by York University’s EM Bird.
Installation of the EM Bird on the Kenn Borek Air Basler BT67 plane, which we will use to perform ice-thickness surveys and to transport passengers and cargo between the CryoVex 2014 sites in the Beaufort.
As noted in the last blog post, measurements will also be coordinated with NASA’s Operation Icebridge surveys.
Post from Christian Haas (York University)
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