DAILY SHIP REPORT for 1998071814 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ship Observer: Uttal , Taneil Date: 1998071814 Time: 14:30 Z Submitted at: Sun Jul 19 17:07:20 UT 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GPS Ship Position 78 12.866N 166 07.598W --------------------------------------------- Ship Movement in last 24 hrs 1.86nm@359 --------------------------------------------- Surface Temperature 1 deg --------------------------------------------- Surface Wind Chill --------------------------------------------- RADAR: Signal from surface to 3.1 km. Strong downward vertical velocities. Cloud Heights-from LIDAR and CEILOMETER:Layered structure below 1, at RADAR same layers ... exceeding 3.5 m/sec. also sees layer at 3 m AGL. LIDAR:0.7 and 2.0 and 3.0... lots of thin layers of liquid water. --------------------------------------------- Liquid Water Layers-LIDAR moving in and out below 3 km AGL. --------------------------------------------- Inversion Height --------------------------------------------- Ship Orientation 6 deg --------------------------------------------- Prevailing Winds 8 kts 120 deg --------------------------------------------- Rawindonde Status --------------------------------------------- Tethered Balloon Status --------------------------------------------- Solid high overcast overhead., some clearing Visual Observations visible on horizon, good surface visibilty. --------------------------------------------- Lead Report --------------------------------------------- All normal NOTE: lidar will not be scanning Ship Instrument status on 1/2hour. --------------------------------------------- Helicopter Status No Helicopter status --------------------------------------------- Ultralight Status No Ultralight status --------------------------------------------- Ship-to-Air Communication VHF/AM 121.5/126.7 and 2582 KHz Frequencies --------------------------------------------- Ship-to-Land Communication HF 6200/6501 Frequencies --------------------------------------------- If you are interested in complex, layered, structured, low level clouds, get out here Comments and Mission ASAP!! 0351 terrascan image indicates that Recommendations present cloud conditions (lots of complex patchy low level and intermittant cirrus) is widespread and will persist. Large cirrus shield to east. ------------------------------------------------------------------------