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• Main Authors: Dr. Kathryn, D. Sullivan, Dr. Louis Uccellini, Paula M. Rychtar, Stuart Hayes
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Ms. Paula M. Rychtar; Editorial Supervisor Mariners Weather Log; Austral; Austral Ocean; Cape Horn
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.697.9527; http://vos.noaa.gov/MWL/201404/MWL_0414_lr.pdf

See these Web pages for further links. Hello and welcome once again to another great edition of the Mariners Weather Log. It has been a busy year for VOS with all the changes and upgrades as well as working around our budget constraints. With all this at hand, you, our marine weather observers remain true to the cause and we appreciate all that you do. Our data is getting better than ever and our goal remains quality over quantity. On the cover, I have a wonderful article submitted from one of our European comrades, Margot Choquer from “OceanoScientific”. Margot was intro-duced to me via email by Martin Kramp; Martin is Ship Coordinator for Ship Observations Team (SOT), JCOMMOPS (WMO/IOC-UNESCO). Martin’s association with this ongoing project gave me a perfect opportunity to showcase their story. The Bark EUROPA travels some of the most data sparse regions of the world, including the austral ocean, and below the Cape Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin as well as Cape Horn; some of the most hostile