Time:1515 Local, 0315 Z
Observer:Gillman & Post
GPS Ship Position:
   Lat. 0 deg. 33.1 min. S
   Long. 166 deg. 58.0 min. E
   Heading: 106 deg
Surface Wind: 6.7 m/s @ 094 deg. (14 m height)
Air Temp:28.1C (13 m height)
Sea Temp:28.8C (5 m depth)
Rel. Humidity:75.9 % (13 m height)
Precipitation last 24 hr:46.0 mm
Column Water Vapor: 4.2 cm (MWR)
Cloud Layer Heights:
    Ceilometer: 0.6, 4.6 km bases
    MMCR Radar:0.7 - 1.0, 10 km base
    Lidar:0.6, 6.5, 10.0 km bases
Radiosonde Inversion Height:0.5 km @ 0524 Z (Day 189)

Visual Observations:A more typical day: mostly sunshine with scattered MBL cumuli but with a few higher clouds. Brisk wind and whitecaps

Notable Events and Anecdotes: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 runs to Nauru are being kept to a minimum. Jeff Otten arrived onboard 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 ARCS radiosonde launch procedures to help understand an apparent dry bias in sondes there. Four island sondes have now been launched from RHB and vice versa, but results are not yet in.

Instrument Status:All is well on the western front.

Commanding Officer Roger Parsons and Chief Scientist M.J. Post "topside" on Nauru. This area has been extensively mined for phosphate (fertilizer) over the past century, lowering the island's height somewhat and leaving the interior largely unusable.