{"id":204,"date":"2012-08-16T14:19:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T18:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noaacoastsurvey.wordpress.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2022-03-18T16:55:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T16:55:26","slug":"ice-pack-recedes-fairweather-takes-nearshore-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/ice-pack-recedes-fairweather-takes-nearshore-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice pack recedes, Fairweather takes nearshore route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news! When NOAA Ship <em>Fairweather<\/em> started her Arctic reconnaissance survey, on August 1, there was some question about whether she would be able to complete the entire trackline. The icepack from Barrow to the Canadian border had not yet receded. Thanks to \u00a0satellite imagery and ice forecasts, we can see open water up to Barter Island, and then thin ice to Demarcation Point. Cmdr. Jim Crocker is now able to follow a nearshore route. They will survey closer to shore than the planned transit route \u2013 and acquire very useful hydrographic data!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWe can\u2019t wait to get the next blog update directly from the <em>Fairweather<\/em>\u2026<br \/>\n<em>(For background, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/staff\/news\/headline-fairweatherarctic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NOAA Ship Fairweather conducting hydrographic reconnaissance survey of the Arctic<\/a>.)<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/noaacoastsurvey.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/nasa-modis-vis-8131012-ice-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-205\" title=\"Nasa Modis vis 8131012 ice image\" src=\"http:\/\/noaacoastsurvey.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/nasa-modis-vis-8131012-ice-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"772\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news! When NOAA Ship Fairweather started her Arctic reconnaissance survey, on August 1, there was some question about whether she would be able to complete the entire trackline. The icepack from Barrow to the Canadian border had not yet receded. Thanks to \u00a0satellite imagery and ice forecasts, we can see open water up to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/ice-pack-recedes-fairweather-takes-nearshore-route\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ice pack recedes, Fairweather takes nearshore route&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,7],"tags":[313,314],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arctic","category-fairweather","category-hydrographic-surveys","tag-icepack","tag-reconnaisance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182466,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/182466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}