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29 Oct. 2011: Mirai

Oct.29 (Sat)

Oct.29Rainy

We depart Colombo in the morning of Oct.28. Now we are heading to our station in CINDY/DYNAMO array.

On the way to our station, we restarted our observations at around 00Z on Oct.29. The radiosondes have been launched every 3 hours from 03Z, Oct.29. Every instruments are going well, while some of oceanic instruments (CTD, MSP, SSST sensor) will start their observation when we arrive the station.

Most of today (when we are cruising around the equator), Doppler radar captured very widespread precipitating area, with some interesting but complicated structure. Basically the organized line / band oriented NE-SW direction. On the strongest gust front, the temperature dropped to 23 deg-C with the wind speed of over 20 m/s. Around 00Z, Oct.30, we entered radar-echo-free area.

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By MK