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Report from the Ron Brown: June 16, 1999

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Photo (left): Derek Coffman and Drew Hamilton at the aerosol computers in the Ron Brown's computer lab.

Other snapshots from the Ron Brown

Daily Weather Forecast Mirai Updates! Nauru Updates!

Commentary:

There were two drills today: fire and abandon ship. The scientists began organizing internal web pages to share data and graphical output. We will change ship time from 1830 to 1900 today (the new ship time is Universal Time Coordinate [UTC]-10).

Date: June 16, 1999
Local Time: 1530 Local, 0600 Z
GPS Ship Position:

Lat. 10 deg 49.4 min. S

Long. 135 deg 33.0 min. E
Heading: 088 [deg]
Surface Wind: 140 [deg], 12.0 [mps]
Temperature: 24.2 [deg] (13 m height)
Sea Surface Temperature: 27.0 [deg] (5 m depth)
Relative Humidity: 87 % (13 m height)
Precipitation last 24 hr: trace
Cloud Layer Heights:

Ceilometer: 0.6 k

Radar: 0.6 - 3.0, 5 - 8 km

Lidar: 0.6 km
Radiosonde Inversion Height: 2.1 km @ 2255Z

Visual Observations:

Stratus was overcast with intermittent showers. Whitecaps. A dull, gray day. We were taking on light spray on all decks.

Instrument Status:

The S-band radar and the Depolarization and Aerosol Backscatter Unattented Lidar were both repaired and are now operating normally. The C-band radar is doing surveillance scans every 30 minutes.

Previous Days' Updates:

June 15, 1999
June 14, 1999
June 10, 1999

 

 

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