DAILY SHIP REPORT for 1998051514 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ship Observer: Intrieri , Janet Date: 1998051514 Time: 1430 Z Submitted at: Fri May 15 18:52:24 GB 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GPS Ship Position 76 deg 16.93/165 deg 11.67 ------------------------------------------- Ship Movement in last 24 hrs 3.1 nm @ 327 deg. ------------------------------------------- Surface Temperature -9 C ------------------------------------------- Surface Wind Chill ------------------------------------------- radar: shows echo from sfc to ~ 2 km ceilometer: detects base at 1.75 km Cloud Heights-from LIDAR and lidar: detects a water cloud ~ 300 m thick RADAR at 1.75 km which is precipitating out ice crystals to ~ 750 m ------------------------------------------- Liquid Water Layers-LIDAR 1.75 km ------------------------------------------- Inversion Height 1.5 km ------------------------------------------- Ship Orientation 1.7 deg. ------------------------------------------- Prevailing Winds 17 kts. / 100 deg. ------------------------------------------- Rawindonde Status all normal ------------------------------------------- Tethered Balloon Status all normal ------------------------------------------- cloud scene is highly varialbe like it was yesterday. very occasional large flake Visual Observations making it to the surface, stratus to the S ans SW, stratocu to the NE, lead reflections in cloud base to the SW ------------------------------------------- same as yesterday, we seem to be in Lead Report between 2 lead systems ------------------------------------------- Ship Instrument status all normal ------------------------------------------- Helicopter Status Helicopter on site ------------------------------------------- Ultralight Status Ultralight on site ------------------------------------------- Ship-to-Air Communication VHF/AM 121.5/126.7 Frequencies ------------------------------------------- Ship-to-Land Communication HF 6200/6501 Frequencies ------------------------------------------- Terascan shows low clouds near the ship, a Comments and Mission narrow clear slot in an E-W dir just to Recommendations the S, and higher clouds bet. the ship and Barrow. Good cloud Hodge-Podge for the A/C today ------------------------------------------------------------------------