Photo (left):Tepora Toliniu (student) and Jennifer Aicher (teacher) of La Vai Moana Marine Center in American Samoa, working in the Hydro Lab. Jen also helps with balloon launches and Tepora with hand-held sun photometer observations. Other snapshots from the Ron Brown

Commentary:

After yesterday's rains and clouds we decided to stay put for another 24 hours to get better radiative measurements on the windward side of the island. Seas remain rough so RHIB (small boat) runs to Nauru are being kept to a minimum. Jeff Otten arrived on board this morning, glad to be here. The ship has made enough fresh water to allow laundry again; there was a rush to the machines because most of us were out of clean skivies! Jeff Hare and Jon Shannahoff observed Atmosphere Radiation and Cloud Station (ARCS) radiosonde launch procedures to help understand an apparent dry bias in sondes there. Four island sondes have now been launched from the Ron Brown and vice versa, but results are not yet in.

Visual Observations:

A more typical day. Mostly sunshine with scattered marine boundary layer cumuli but with a few higher clouds. Brisk wind and whitecaps.

Instrument Status:

All is well on the western front.

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