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NOAAS Ronald H. Brown

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Reference excerpt

NOAAS Ronald H. Brown (R 104) is a Thomas G. Thompson-class blue-water research vessel of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She is NOAA's only Global-Class research ship. The ship is named for United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, who was killed while in office in a plane crash on 3 April 1996 while on a trade mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Construction and commissioning Ronald H. Brown's keel was laid at VT Halter Marine's Moss Point shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi, in February 1995, and she was launched on 30 May 1996. NOAA commissioned her on 19 July 1997 at her home port, Charleston, South Carolina. She was NOAA's first newly built oceanographic research vessel in 17 years.

Technical characteristics At 274 feet (84 m) in length, Ronald H. Brown is the largest vessel in the NOAA fleet. Her hull is hardened against ice to allow for Arctic and Antarctic research. The ship has a total of 59 bunk spaces and can seat 30 at a time in her mess room. The ship also includes a two-bed hospital facility. She carries a complement of six NOAA Corps commissioned officers, one commissioned U.S. Public Health Service medical officer, 22 crew and a maximum of 31 scientists. The deck equipment features three winches, two fixed cranes, a portable crane, a hydrographic boom, and an A-frame. This equipment gives Ronald H. Brown a lifting capacity of up to 42,000 pounds (19,000 kg) as well as up to 10,000 metres (33,000 ft) of cable that can pull up to 8,100 pounds (3,700 kg). One of the winches is specifically for use with specialty cables such as optical fiber cables or coaxial EM Cable. As a research vessel, a substantial amount of the ship is dedicated to laboratories. Included in the 4,100 square feet (380 m2) of laboratory space are a computer/electronics laboratory, a biochemical laboratory, and a wet laboratory. In addition to her state-of-the-art oceanographic sampling capabilities, the Ronald H. Brown has instrumentation to study the atmosphere, including a Doppler weather radar for a better understanding of storm dynamics at sea. This combined atmospheric and oceanographic sampling capability makes the ship unique in the world's research fleet. Scientists aboard the vessel can study critical environmental issues across the world's oceans. Ronald H. Brown and three other research ships were all built to the same basic design. Her three sister ships, all owned by the US Navy, are RV Thomas G. Thompson, operated by the University of Washington, RV Roger Revelle, operated by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, and RV Atlantis, operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Operational history

Ronald H. Brown has participated in many national and international projects. On 18 July 2013, Ronald H. Brown departed Charleston; by the time she returned on 25 March 2017, she had spent 1,347 days deployed, the longest deployment by a NOAA ship in history. During her deployment, she spent almost 800 days at sea and traveled 130,000 nautical miles (240,000 km; 150,000 mi), conducting scientific research and servicing more than 80 buoys that collect environmental data on ocean and weather conditions in the tropical ocean. Her scientific activities included the study of ocean acidification and of atmospheric rivers over the Pacific Ocean off the United States West Coast; participation in a first-of-its-kind multi-agency rapid response mission to observe the El Niño of 2015–2016; the taking of more than 1,600 water measurements in the Atlantic Ocean between Iceland and Antarctica and in the Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Antarctica in support of efforts to improve the understanding of the long-term physical properties of the ocean and how they are changing; bathymetric surveys of 353,975 square miles (916,792 square kilometers) of the ocean bottom to map the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf, including surveys conducted near Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll in the Pacific Ocean; assessments of the ecology of bays along the Alaska North Slope; and studies of the fisheries and oceanography of the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Alaska.

Ronald H. Brown was on a 40-day mission to service meteorological buoys in the Atlantic Ocean when she came to the assistance of a disabled sailing vessel several hundred miles off Cape Verde on 28 November 2022. After transiting 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi) to reach the sailboat, Ronald H. Brown used a small boat in rough seas to bring aboard three people from the sailboat, one of whom had been injured by a falling mast. Other people aboard the sailboat decided not to evacuate, so Ronald H. Brown′s provided them with fuel so they could reach port using the sailboat's motor. The three people who came aboard Ronald H. Brown remained aboard her for several days until she reached Newport, Rhode Island. For their role in assisting the disabled sailing vessel, Ronald H. Brown and her crew received the Department of Commerce Gold Medal in a ceremony at United States Department of Commerce headquarters in Washington, D.C., on 6 February 2024.

Honors and awards Department of Commerce Gold Medal

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with NOAAS Ronald H. Brown

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what NOAAS Ronald H. Brown claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In earth science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to NOAAS Ronald H. Brown before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about NOAAS Ronald H. Brown ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of NOAAS Ronald H. Brown

In research: NOAAS Ronald H. Brown appears in earth science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses NOAAS Ronald H. Brown in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: NOAAS Ronald H. Brown is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1996 ships, District of Columbia-related ships, IMO numbers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for NOAAS Ronald H. Brown outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is NOAAS Ronald H. Brown in simple terms?

NOAAS Ronald H. Brown (R 104) is a Thomas G.

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