Explorer of the Seas Ceilometer Data

Operation of shipboard instrumentation aboard the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines Explorer of the Seas cruise vessel in the southwestern North Atlantic Ocean to gather oceanographic and atmpospheric data. The vessel is based in Miami and makes weekly year-round cruise tracks. It is outfitted with several suites of ocean monitoring instrumentation. The area of study ranges from the east coast of Florida to the Florida Straits including three major transport passages between the Atlantic and Caribbean. To gather and disseminate real time observational measurements on cloud base conditions using ceilometer instrumentation.