Joint Airborne Study of the Peninsula Region (JASPER)
Joint Airborne Science for Peninsula Research (JASPER)
Start date:
1 August, 2009
End date:
31 July, 2010
JASPER brings together two of the best equipped Polar meteorology instrumented aircraft and teams to study boundary layer meteorology in the Antarctic Peninsula and Weddell Sea. A joint project between the BAS Twin Otter and the AWI Polar 5 Basler aircraft will make an in-flight instrument comparison and focus on boundary layer measurements over a variety of Antarctic sea ice types and polynyas concentrating on energy flux and radiation measurements. Joint working will allow simultaneous data capture over wider areas than a single aircraft would alone.
JASPER brings together two of the best equipped Polar meteorology instrumented aircraft and teams to study boundary layer meteorology in the Antarctic Peninsula and Weddell Sea. A joint project between the BAS Twin Otter and the AWI Polar 5 Basler aircraft will make an in-flight instrument comparison and focus on boundary layer measurements over a variety of Antarctic sea ice types and polynyas concentrating on energy flux and radiation measurements. Joint working will allow simultaneous data capture over wider areas than a single aircraft would alone.
