July 30, 2019

Mills Cross Radar Testing

Mills Cross UHF radar in front of the red weatherport. A very first RES image obtained by the radar.

The red weatherport in which Stephen and Daniel is sleeping in has a changing outdoor arrangement of blue radar balloons and radars and has the Cabin Pisten Bully parked outside. On the drone picture it is the Mills Cross UHF radar in its 2019 T-shaped form. The radar elements are placed on blue balloons that normally are used for gymnastics. This supplies a soft cushion for the radar placed on top of the balloons. To the left a very first field radio echogram of a line from EGRIP towards the NW shear margin.

What we did during the day:

1. PP measurements of bags bag 3680 (Superbanger’s neighbour) and bag 3856 (deepest bag of the season)
2. Station for atmospheric moisture sampling and isotopic measurement is active.
3. Packing in the cfa and PP cabins
4. Working on the radar data
5. Design of holder for L-band radar
6. Shallow drilling at S5, the shear margin,final depth 67.25 m
7. Work on the Rover
8. Successfully melting cores on the Lisa box.
9. Cleaning up in camp
10. Maintaining skidoos

EGRIP population is 23

Weather: Wind decreasing from 16 kts to 8 kts. Wind direction S changing to SW. Changing sunny and overcast with temperatures down to -8 °C in the night and up to PLUS 1.3 °C in the day

FL, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen