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Subject: October 16 Report
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:49:19 -0400
From: "taneil uttal" <taneil.uttal.atsea@rbnems.ronbrown.omao.noaa.gov>
To: paquita.zuidema@noaa.gov

October 16th Report

SHIP STATUS - 

We are parked at the WHOI Buoy and will be staying here for several 
days.  This means that rather than moving along at 10 or 12 knots under 
the clouds (as well as having the clouds move over us), the clouds are 
just moving over us. 

INSTRUMENT STATUS -

Everything is up and running.  Duane did some changes with the post 
blanking time, but it didn't make any difference, so he is changing 
things back to the original settings.  He is running calibrations 
before and after.

PROCESSING STATUS -

I have been plotting ceilometer data on top of radar data....looks 
excellent for these kinds of clouds.  By "excellent" I mean that the 
ceilometer will be very useful for having us separate out drizzle and 
virga regions of the cloud from the cloud areas.  This should be 
helpful with understanding the effect of the tests that Sergey wants to 
do on reflectivity thresholds and LWP retrievals.  I have not yet coded 
the retrievals, but will work on that this afternoon.  I will try to 
get Bob Weller to send out a radar/ceilometer plot in the next weekly 
report.  We are working on comparisons with Sandra Yuter on the C-band 
data as she is getting significantly higher cloud tops than we are and 
is worrying about pointing angles and interpolation resolutions. I 
think that these clouds are probably marginal for that radar given the 
beamwidth, pulse length and sensitivity. MJ, do you want to ask some of 
the ocean sensing radar theoroticians and see if they have opinions 
about sea clutter for a radar of that wavelength at low grazing angles?

DINNER REPORT

Glazed duck, spinich crepes.

FORWARD TO:

Post
Matrosov
Shupe
Ryan
Otto
Fairall
Moran