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Evaluation Data Available From MARCUS Navigation and Ship Correction VAPs
Figure a shows the MARCUS ship’s track—color-coded by day—from January 16 to 26, 2018. The minimum, the 25th percentile, the median, the 75th percentile, and the maximum beam angle (angle off the zenith) are represented by box-and-whisker plots in figure b, whereas the colors of the boxes correspond to the days on the map in…
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New Ship Navigation Corrections for MAGIC and ACAPEX
Mean Doppler velocity shown here from the MAGIC deployment on June 26, 2013, from the KAZR copol for a) uncorrected and b) corrected. A new suite of evaluation value-added products (VAPs) is now available for the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) to provide accurate ship location and orientation during ocean deployments and to correct for…
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Navigation Best Estimate Value-Added Product Released
The measured pitch of the ship is shown here for the twelfth return trip from Honolulu to Los Angeles, also known as MAGIC Leg 12B. Developed in response to the first ship-based deployment of the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2), the Navigation Best Estimate (NAVBE) Value-Added Product (VAP) has been released for evaluation. Meteorological, cloud,…