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.