The Meteorological Services plans to enhance marine weather and ice predictions in the Arctic; these buoys will improve both in-situ and space-based observations.
To fulfill part of the monitoring requirement of the Metrological Area project, the Meteorological Services will deploy an array of on-ice and in-water buoys that will,garage equipments in time,Clawfoot tub faucets form the Canadian Arctic Buoy Array.Antique tubs Last year, nine on-ice buoys were dropped.
Champika Gallage, the coordinator for Meteorological Services’ Arctic Marine Monitoring, said that the buoys will provide real-time data on ice position, atmospheric pressure, pressure tendency, air temperature, sea surface temperature. This data will also track the movement of the ice pack via hourly reports.
Observations are relayed to the Meteorological Services via satellite,Used construction machinery and disseminated in real-time to a wide range of internal and external clients. The information will be an important resource for forecasters, climatologists and scientists to improve their products and enhance their understanding of the Arctic environment.
Piloted by Major Greg Castagner and Captain Nicolas Kim, the aircraft was flown as far as 85 degrees north latitude and as far west as 167 west longitude. It descended to 182 metres (600 feet) over the ice pack or 91 metres (300 feet) over open water to perform the drops.
At that latitude, the aircraft was flying north of even Canadian Forces Station Alert on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island, which is the most northerly, permanently inhabited location in the world.
Warrant Officer Nick Kossey of the Transport and Rescue Standards Evaluation Team, also located at Trenton, and Sergeant Les Page of 436 Squadron dropped the buoys from the open ramp of the Hercules.
The CC-130J Hercules is one of the very few aircraft types that is capable of performing this task. In total,carbon cloth ten buoys of three types were dropped over the three days of flying. Two types are designed to land on the ice pack and the third for open water.
Peter Legnos of LBI Corp, Connecticut (a company that specializes in design of composite and thermoform products for the marine environment), was onboard to install and arm cable-cutting charges on the Air Deployable Expendable Ice Buoy that would activate approximately 10 seconds after the buoy exited the aircraft. This would separate the buoy from the parachute allowing it to fall into the sea.
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