Last Update: 12 May, 2010  
SoRPiC: Solar Radiation and Phase Discrimination of Arctic Clouds.   Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Norway), 30 April - 20 May, 2010

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Flights

Test flight! Here is a clear-sky section that we were looking for.

Clouds above and below us.

Looking towards the sun.

A short glance on Svalbard's science village, Ny-Ålesund.

Passing a glacier.

A glory, our constant companion - it indicates that the cloud consists mostly of droplets

Aerial view of Longyearbyen

Icing, our enemy

P5 taking off for ARTE's vista flight
 
Longyearbyen

Arriving at Svalbard airport around midnight, we find the sun to shine across the pole.

View on the Adventfjord from our airport office.

View on the Adventfjord from our airport office.

Approach of the Polar-5 to LYR (Svalbard Airport Longyearbyen).

Finally: P5 in Longyearbyen!

At 1.30 a.m., the Sun starts to shine into the hotel room.

Coal mine number 7 and the Eiscat antennas in Adventdalen, at the end of Longyearbyen's longest road

Longyearbyen's reindeer are not very shy.

Remnants of the coal industry are abundant.
 
Integration Bremerhaven

The empty Polar 5 awaits the instrumentation. For instance, the EM Bird (lower right).

The cabin of the P5 is still empty.

The instrument racks are almost ready to be loaded into the P5.

A research aircraft has lots of holes - like this which will hold the SMART-Albedometer sensors to measure solar radiation.

The nadir sensors of the SMART-Albedometer are already in place.

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