Honey Badger is out in the ops area, doing squares. The instruments are generally performing well. One of the fluorometers has a funky temperature sensor, but that's not a big deal since we will not be using those data anyway (the CTD is designed for this and the primary temperature source). We will have to fix the phyto-flash when it gets back in. We launched knowing it was not sending good data, but did not have the fix in hand before the weekend was upon us. So, rather than waste the time, we decided to set Honey Badger loose for the long weekend and implement the fix on Tuesday when we recover.
Here's an overview of what Honey Badger is doing at the moment. It's just running a box in the test area off of the Big Island.
A close up shows the detail. It's reporting a CTD data set every 10 minutes and that is what these points are linking to. It is moving at an average speed of about 1 knot, so the points are not far apart. Besides, it has been going over the sam box for about 2 days now, so the data is pretty dense!
Many thanks to Bob Simons at NOAA for getting our data stream in order. Cara and I are very grateful for his efforts as well as to Lynn Dewitt for putting together the website. This is going to be so much fun!
No comments:
Post a Comment