{"id":491,"date":"2016-01-08T13:41:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T18:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2016-01-11T09:53:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T14:53:04","slug":"final-laser-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/final-laser-preparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Final LASER preparations (T-7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The CARTHE-LASER team is extraordinarily busy preparing for the upcoming experiment, which will be conducted from January 15th to February 15th, 2016. \u00a0With only one week to go, we thought we would share how various team members were getting ready for this exciting mission.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">Cedric Guigand has been working with Guillaume Novelli and Dan Carlson on the design of the drifters and the aerostat, respectively. \u00a0He stated that the last drifter parts should be in by Monday, Jan 11th. (Let&#8217;s hope there are no delay in shipping!) All of the 1000 GPS units are assembled and ready. The aerostat is getting a few\u00a0last minute design upgrades. \u00a0The trucks with two 20 foot containers are leaving on the 15 of January with (hopefully) all our drifter parts. More than 5 metric tons of equipment is going to be shipped!<a href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12080387_967546879958253_1367360774519773502_o-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-495 img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12080387_967546879958253_1367360774519773502_o-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"12080387_967546879958253_1367360774519773502_o (1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12080387_967546879958253_1367360774519773502_o-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12080387_967546879958253_1367360774519773502_o-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12080387_967546879958253_1367360774519773502_o-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12110019_968587276520880_3139422415266844340_o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-494 img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12110019_968587276520880_3139422415266844340_o-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"12110019_968587276520880_3139422415266844340_o\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12110019_968587276520880_3139422415266844340_o-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12110019_968587276520880_3139422415266844340_o-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/12110019_968587276520880_3139422415266844340_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">In the <a href=\"http:\/\/sustain.rsmas.miami.edu\/\">SUSTAIN<\/a>\u00a0lab, Brian Haus&#8217; team\u00a0is testing the various sensor packages and data acquisition systems that will be deployed aboard both research vessels. Also, the facility is serving as the staging area for the Lagrangian surface drifters so there is a lot of action going on in this space.<a href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_9133-e1452202283308.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-493 img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_9133-e1452202283308-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9133\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_9133-e1452202283308-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_9133-e1452202283308-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">Milan Curcic is\u00a0in charge of maintaining and running UWIN-CM (Unified Wave INterface &#8211; Coupled Model) in real-time in support of LASER. The coupled model forecasts of weather, waves, and currents will be used by the scientists in the field on a daily basis to determine the optimal ship and aircraft operations and instrument deployments. To prepare, he is\u00a0making sure everything about the model and the compute cluster we use works as expected and all incoming data feeds are healthy.<a href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4639.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-497 img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4639-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4639\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4639-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4639-1024x720.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Falko Judt,\u00a0National Center for Atmospheric Research, is the LASER forecaster. \u00a0He has provided daily weather forecasts for both of our previous\u00a0experiments, GLAD and SCOPE. \u00a0He will serve this role once again, providing\u00a0daily weather briefings using the UWIN-CM model predictions. \u00a0Though most of his work will be during the experiment, he has already started looking at the conditions that our team will face.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/laser\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-500 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/laser_color_blue_transparent-300x82.png\" alt=\"laser_color_blue_transparent\" width=\"300\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/laser_color_blue_transparent-300x82.png 300w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/laser_color_blue_transparent-768x209.png 768w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/laser_color_blue_transparent-1024x279.png 1024w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/laser_color_blue_transparent.png 1943w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CARTHE-LASER team is extraordinarily busy preparing for the upcoming experiment, which will be conducted from January 15th to February 15th, 2016. \u00a0With only one week to go, we thought <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/final-laser-preparations\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}