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NOAA Ship RONALD H. BROWN
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Time: 1605 Local, 0505 Z
Observer: Gillman & Post
GPS Ship Position:
   Lat. 10 deg. 43.2 min S
   Long. 148 deg. 45.5 min E
   Heading: 112 deg
Surface Wind: 9.8 m/s @ 135 deg. (14 m height)
Air Temp: 26.3 C (13 m height)
Sea Temp: 26.6 C (5 m depth)
Rel. Humidity: 78.9 % (13 m height)
Precipitation last 24 hr: 0 mm
Cloud Layer Heights: MMCR Cloud Images
    Ceilometer: 0.6 - 1.0 km bases
    Radar: 0.6 - 2.0, 3.8 - 4.2 km
    Lidar: 0.8 - 1.0 km
Radiosonde Inversion Height: 1.75 km @ 2255 Z
Visual Observations:
Blue sky visible between 70% broken low clouds. Still rough seas (2-3 m) with whitecaps. Wet decks with constant bow wave spray.

Notable Events and Anecdotes: Advanced ship time by 1 hour at 1500 ship time. We are now UTC plus 11 hours. Attempted HF radio communication with Mirai and Nauru yesterday at 0600 Z. RHB heard Mirai and Nauru heard RHB, but no 2-way contact. We all will try again today.

Instrument Status: No change. Many remain covered because of wet conditions.


Chuck Pavloski of PSU on top of PMEL's Aerosol Van on 02 deck forward attending to Total Sky Imager.
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Updated: 19 June 1999