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faces were 30lid.

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The door was fully louvred, but the other five interior

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It was graduated in whole-degrees Fahrenheit.

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with a magnet for re-setting the rider.

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The thermometer waS mourited on an upright post in the shelter.

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The raingage was a standard 8-inch one.

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Direct dry-bulb and wet-bulb readings were taken using a Friez psychron

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(mercury-in-glass thermometers graduated in whole-degrees Fahrenheit and mounted in a

Fahrenheit and

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unit with a battery-driven fan).

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the shade, at a 5-foot height with the observer standing to leeward of the psychro
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A standard recording hygrothermograph was maintained in the shelter (see

description of this instrument under BRUCE instrumentation, above).

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Psychron readings were made outside the shelter, in

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hotographs in the

Site Description:

This tower site is diagrammed in Figure 12. The raingage and

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shelter, whose location is also shown in this figure, were located on a side platform

meter, and rain-

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immediately to the south of the tower and at a height of 174 feet above mean low
lagoon water.

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Instruments:

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Because it was only four feet south of the standard shelter, the catch was probably

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Through February

The standard, 8-inch raingage was at the extreme SE edge of the platform.

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The instrument shelter was of the standard Cotton Region type with the

door on the west side.

with the raingage i

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Maximum and_minimum thermometers, the hygrothermograph, and the psychron

he NE) and quonset a:

for direct reading of dry-bulb and wet-bulb temperatures were of the same kinds that

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were used at KEITH and BRUCE (see above).

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Only standard 8-inch raingages were installed on these islets.

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Both were well exposed, with no obstruction of any kind within 100

Their locations are shown in Figure 10.

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