It's 10:20 am PDT and we are currently relaxing in the Airborne Science Lab - located inside the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility hangar - finalizing the flight plan for today's science flight.
The students are very excited as they browse through the flight track, which will take us from Palmdale, up north towards Sacramento, southwest to do some overflights of Monetery Bay, and then back south to Palmdale.
Doors close on the DC-8 at 11:10 am PDT and take-off is scheduled for 11:40 am PDT. First we will be flying at about 1,000 feet agl and collecting in-situ air samples of gas emissions from dairy farms using the UCI Whole Air Sampler. Then we'll climb to about 37,000 feet to begin collecting remote sensing data of algae blooms in Monterey Bay using the MASTER instrument. We'll also be flying at 13,000 feet to collect MASTER data of evapotranspiration processes of cotton fields and almond orchards.
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