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Daily Nauru99 Report
NOAA Ship RONALD H. BROWN
06/16/99 -> Next

Time: 1530 Local, 0600 Z
Observer: Gillman & Post
GPS Ship Position:
   Lat. 10 deg 49.4 min. S
   Long. 135 deg 33.0 min. E
Heading: 088 deg
Surface Wind: 12.0 m/s @ 140 deg.
Air Temp: 24.2C (13 m height)
Sea Temp: 27.0C (5 m depth)
Rel. Humidity: 87 % (13 m height)
Precipitation last 24 hr: (trace) mm
Cloud Layer Heights: MMCR Cloud Images
    Ceilometer: 0.6 km
    Radar: 0.6 - 3.0, 5 - 8 km
    Lidar: 0.6 km
Radiosonde Inversion Height: 2.1 km @ 2255Z
Visual Observations: Stratus overcast, intermittant showers. Whitecaps. A dull, gray day. Taking on light spray all decks.

Notable Events and Anecdotes: Two drills today - fire and abandon ship. We will change ship time from 1830 to 1900 today (new ship time UTC-10). Scientists began organizing internal web pages to share data and graphical output.

Instrument Status: S-band radar and DABUL were both repaired and are now operating normally. C-band radar is doing surveillance scans every 30 min.


Hans Verlinde at C-band radar console in ship's computer lab.


Derek Coffman and Drew Hamilton at aerosol computers in ship's computer lab.

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Updated: 16 June 1999