ACE-1 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Daily Operations Report

Day: 324 (20 November 1995)

Todays Operations:

Mission Plan:
 
  Primary Mission :  none; no daily planning meeting today
  Alternate Mission: N/A 
  Future Mission(s) : Engineering flight Tuesday 21 November.
                      Possible research flight Wednesday 
                      22 November

Aircraft Operations
  
  Take-off Time: N/A
                           
  
  Pre-flight Weather Briefing Time: N/A
  Updates: N/A
 
  Airborne Mission Scientist: N/A
                                         
  Mission Scientist: N/A


Ship Operations
  Discoverer:
     Discoverer in route to Hobart has now turned toward initial
     point for Lagrangian at 50S 135E. 0400 UTC 11/20 position
     was 41S 143E.  Detailed measurements samples available on
     catalog.
    
     Discoverer Lead Scientist: Tim Bates   

  Southern Surveyor:
     Southern Surveyor west of Cape Grim and has just completed
          first station. Arriving second station at 0400 UTC
          11/20.Soundings being taken every 12 hours. All other
          instrumentation in good order.
     Southern Surveyor Lead Scientist: Bronte Tilbrook

Systems Status:
     Aircraft: Engine change underway in Hobart.  Expect    
          completion today with engineering flight by Tuesday
          morning.  This will be followed by PI access to repair
          and test instrumentation for the rest of Tuesday. 
     Discoverer: Most major systems on Discoverer are       
          operational. 
     Seawater CO system and DMS measurements are not operational.
     So. Surveyor: All major systems operational.
     Cape Grim: Cape Grim installation continues.  Most systems
          are operational. Barry Huebert visiting site today to
          work on instrumentation. The ISS has operational OMEGA
          and profiler. RASS system is down.
     Macquarie Island: All systems operational. Six hourly
                        soundings are being taken.

Forecast and Relevant Analyses

48 hour MSLP Prognosis is here

72 hour MSLP Prognosis is here

Latest Visible Sat Picture is here

Surface Wind 24-h forecast is here

GASP trajectory analysis is here

ACE-1 FORECAST

Scientific Issues and discussion