Daily INDOEX page

Data from DAY 026, 26-Jan-99

POD, The Plan of the Day
Satellite Passes
Plots from the PMEL data system
met plot, ocean/ship plot, aerosol/ozone plot
radon
Lidar plot
ozonesonde plot

RadioSondes:

Temp, Dew, RH Winds

00Z 00Z

12Z 12Z

Satellite Pictures: (lat, longt lines are 2 deg apart, X marks postion of ship)

Morning NearIR channel(ch2) from noaa-15 showing the ship entering the deep tropical convection
Morning ThermalIR(ch5) of same region, the bright white is -60C
Optical Depth at 0.63um, at 1643, light blue=0.1, magenta=.5, red=1

Bad news of the day---
We received the following email from Gene Feldman at NASA-GSFC, It appears that
SEAWIFS has been overworked and is taking some time off
Date:             01/25/99
Sender:             gene@seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov (Gene Feldman)
To:             end-to-end@seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov
cc:             Jim Johnson, project_staff@seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov
Priority:             Normal
Subject:             SeaWiFS in safe-haven
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             good morning,
             the folks at orbimage reported that seawifs went into
             safe-haven on 1/24 at 18:12 UTC. during the realtime
             pass this morning, an assessment will be made as to
             the nature of the problem and plans will be
             developed for as rapid a resumption of routine imaging
             operations as possible. i will keep you posted.
             regards,
             gene