July 17, 1998
Today's Weather
Today's Boat Assignments
Highlights of the day
Today's Weather: Cloudy skies with a
high temperature of 77°F. Predominate winds from the southeast at 5
kts.
Today's Boat Assignments:
Arabella -REMUS docking port recovery to upgrade hardware for electrical
connections
Caleta - ADCP/CTD Survey
Northstar 4 - Bio-Optical Survey
Zodiac - REMUS Operations
Northstar 6
Today's highlights:
Dense early morning fog due to cold upwelled water nearshore.
Several boats unable to leave the inlet before noon burn off.
Caleta observes nearshore jet to south with high flurometery
signal on inside of the upwelling front still shoreward of LEO-15. Offshore
of the upwelling front, current are to the north. Caleta radios to Northstar
4 for bio-optical sampling. Northstar 4 samples a strong optocline perfectly
following the thermocline.